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Hiroshi Ishii – Computer Scientist & Media Artist To achieve your goals, Hiroshi Ishii says, you must continuously stand out like the prover

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-your… After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden &

Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, th

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/when-will-t… About 66 million years ago, a terrible extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs. But it

Kazuto Ataka – Futurist Kazuto Ataka, the man who excels at big data and market insights, business development and strategies as well as data sc

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rosalind-fr… The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievem

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-wildfir… Our early ancestors relied on lightning to cause forest fires, from which they could co

View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jon-bergman… Did you know that when you fall down, the earth falls up to meet you? Explore the

Art majors everywhere, take heart: John Maeda is lobbying to ensure your future by fusing art and design with science and infusing technology with sou

It is estimated that Johnson & Johnson have made an astounding 100 billion Band-Aids since they were invented in 1920. But where did the idea come

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-h… The longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years … and was caused by a falling

The mass production of DNA amplifiers, which are essential in gene testing, has become cheap and stable enough that no longer do we have to rely on bi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mathema… Pascal’s triangle, which at first may just look like a neatly arranged stack of numbers

Kazuna Tsuboi – System Developer Here’s a high school girl named Rinna who’s massively popular on SNS. She appears to be an ordinary high school

Want to de-stress, lower your blood pressure and pulse, and even bolster your immune system’s ability to fight cancer? Yoshifumi Miyazaki’s suggestion

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