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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happen… The DNA in just one of your cells gets damaged tens of thousands of times per day. Beca

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blood-p… If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 60 thousand miles long. A

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/how-whales-… Comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg studies the body structure of many different anima

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 &

When Masahiko Inami decides to get reflective, he just disappears. That’s because the Keio Media Design professor is the inventor of the Optical Camou

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

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-the… If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there’s no

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/dead-stuff-… When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happ

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science… What do macaroni salad and gasoline have in common? They are made of exactly the same s

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-most-li… Lake Maracaibo is the stormiest place on the planet. Thunderstorms rage above this mass

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-all… Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-… What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have bee

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-radiatio… When we hear the word radiation, it’s tempting to picture huge explosions and frighteni

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/cloudy-clim… As the Earth’s surface temperature gradually rises, it has become vital for us to predi

Shiroh Tenge expects miracles—and achieves them. His Holotropic Network and associated holotropic centers and retreats, following the Maha Samadi trad