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iew full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-hidden-… When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancien

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-brass-i… What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut shaking oompah-pah? And wh

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-writ… The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in th

Shizuka Aoi – Dancer Shizuka Aoi tumbled into the world of gymnastics at the age of six and continued it until college, leaving a great record o

Legions of photographers are grateful that Bruce Livingstone left his punk-rock band, The Bittermen, in 1996. That’s because the Canadian entrepreneur

Leslie Kee was born in Singapore. After graduating from photography school in Tokyo, Kee spent five years working in New York City before returning to

Imamaru Hayashiya – Paper Cutting Artist A paper-cutting entertainer in the vaudeville tradition, Imamaru Hayashiya is also a paper-cutting arti

In the entertainment realm, you’d call Masa Inakage a supreme hyphenate, as in “producer-director-creator-artist-storyteller.” And he actu

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. “Speak to the Heart” is David’s motto for an invitatio

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-mak… Did you ever notice how many jokes start with “Did you ever notice?” And what’s the dea

An early advocate of mobile video and established expert in the field of digital media, Sandeep Casi worked for large corporations for the best part o

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-shakesp… Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquat

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-pleasur… Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is c

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

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