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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-dep… Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world; in the United States, close

TEDxAmsterdamWomen – Corina Vermeulen

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 &

We often define ourselves by things that are “outside” us: relationships, work, family — even our own bodies. But what would it mean to ha

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

Sylvia L. Asa, MD, PhD is the Pathologist-in-Chief and Medical Director of the Laboratory Medicine Program at the University Health Network and Profes

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some… What do Charles Darwin, Michael Jordan, and Yoda have in common? They, like many other

Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as

View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-crea… It takes a lot of fuel to heat our homes, preserve our food, and power our gadgets

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-does-t… Beneath your ribs, you’ll find, among other things, the pancreas — an organ that

Vera Gorbunova concentrates in particular her researches on the naked rat-mole, an underground rodent of East Africa who can live up to 10 times longe

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-it-s-so… In 2008, something incredible happened: a man was cured of HIV. In over 70 million HIV

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

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-obe… Obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of di

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