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Teaching is both a science and an art, and many teachers around the world spend endless hours perfecting their professional practice. At TEDActive 201

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/what-is-met… Steel and plastic are essential to much of our infrastructure and technology. Steel is

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The two live talks at this TEDxNorrköping event have “

Waseda University Visiting Professor Yuichi Mori spent years developing medical technologies such as blood purification and oxygen enrichment using po

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/haptography… Can the sense of touch be harnessed with technology? The field of haptics explores the

Can anybody make sense of all the random data rampaging through the cloud? Mizuki Oka, a post-doc researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Center for K

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Catherine Heymans talks about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, p

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-rub… It’s hard to imagine a modern hospital being able to function without rubber gloves — b

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-polarit… Water is both essential and unique. Many of its particular qualities stem from the fact