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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some… Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, t

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-s… Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It’s easy to appreciate the proc

Nature’s elemental puzzles—from eccentric particles to dark matter to why our universe is expanding so swiftly—are what Hitoshi Murayama lives to solv

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-an… When under anesthesia, you can’t move, form memories, or — hopefully — feel pain. And w

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-playing… Made in partnership with the Always #LikeAGirl campaign. The victory of the underdog. T

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-ma… Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematica

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/how-to-visu… “Parts per million” is a scientific unit of measurement that counts the number of units

To Takashi Ikegami, life is what you make it. Specifically, he and his Ikegami Lab cohorts are attempting to build viable synthetic life forms using c

It’s often said that despite humanity’s many conflicts, we all bleed the same blood. It’s a nice thought, but not quite accurate. In fact, our blood c

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

Some tears look like little planets with beautiful landscapes of patterns and shapes. There are three tear types, one of which is Emotional. And each

As a science researcher who questions science as a social foundation, Osamu Sakura takes a unique look at the emotional impact of science and technolo

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/how-does-a-… You’re swimming in the ocean when something brushes your leg. When the tingling sets in

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-physics… In the third act of “Swan Lake”, the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endle