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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/ideasthesia… The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses provide data to o

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-network… Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-secret-… Coral reef fish, like the yellow tang surgeonfish, begin life in a fascinating and weir

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-the-oct… Octopuses have the ability to solve puzzles, learn through observation, and even use to

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-hone… Honeybees are some of nature’s finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-o… The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapie

Kyoto-born Dr. Naoto Ueno’s avowed mission is to nurture a new generation of oncology investigators and reduce the suffering of breast cancer patients

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-pain… Some people take aspirin or ibuprofen to treat everyday aches and pains, but how exactl

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-… Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the quick burst of heightened al

Dr. Jimmy Lin of Rare Genomics Institute invites his audience on a compelling and emotional journey into the lives of children living with rare diseas

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-different… In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. But there are other wa

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-curable-c… An estimated 20 million cases of blindness worldwide are caused by cataracts, a curable

Click here for view full lesson. We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping j

Masayo Takahashi is a researcher in the area of visual disorders. After carrying out a pioneering iPS cell clinical study in summer 2013, she was name

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-you-spea… The cotton-top tamarin is a very vocal monkey — the species communicates using a

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-d… In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on