TED Talks
How to reclaim your life from work | Simone Stolzoff
Where do you draw the line between work and life? Writer Simone Stolzoff explores the problem with defining yourself by your job — and shows what it takes to reclaim your time and sense of meaning beyond the office.
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How human trafficking victims are forced to run ‘pig butchering’ investment scams
An investment scam called “pig butchering” has cost victims around the world an estimated $75 billion in just the last four years, and it's not just the targets who are being harmed. The imposters on the other end of the line are often...
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Rethinking Responsibility in the Digital Age
The debate over holding social media users accountable for harmful or false content highlights the tension between free speech and the responsibilities that come with vast online reach. Online democracy advocate Eli Pariser explains...
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Balancing Local Control and Cross-Border Challenges on Digital Platforms
Currently, governments individually regulate platforms like Telegram within their jurisdictions, leading to fragmented oversight despite the global nature of these platforms. This raises questions about how to create a balanced...
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TED: A snack's journey from the farm to your mouth | Aruna Rangachar Pohl
How does a biscuit make it from the farm to your plate? Sustainable development leader Aruna Rangachar Pohl unpacks the long journey of one of India's most beloved snacks, revealing how the current industrial farming model is eating the...
SciShow
Can an Equation Really Tell Us How Many Aliens Exist?
In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake wrote down what is now known as the Drake Equation. It's so important to the culture surrounding the search for extraterrestrial life that scientists have carved it into the upcoming Europa Clipper...
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The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the most successful theory in the history of physics. It predicts the results of experiments with a numerical precision unmatched by any other branch of science, and it does so almost...
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TED: How to solve the world's biggest problems | Natalie Cargill
Sometimes the world's biggest issues can seem so intractable that meaningful change feels impossible. But what if the answer has been right in front of us all along? What if the answer is actually throwing money at the problems? In this...
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TED: A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore
What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -- two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating -- and...
SciShow
Is There Such a Thing As An Addictive Personality?
Some online quizzes would have you believe the idea that certain people have a specific “personality type”. But is an “addictive personality” a real thing?
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A Kilogram Is Now a Kilogram—Forever | SciShow News
This week in SciShow News, there's a new kilogram in town, and we might be closer to understanding why people love coffee so much!
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TED: Mangroves, storm walls and other ways to protect coasts from climate change | Dave Sivaprasad
Nearly 40 percent of humanity lives near a coast -- and no two coasts are the same. How can these communities build resilience to the increasing risks of climate change? Climate advisor Dave Sivaprasad outlines how to tackle this complex...
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The top library books people tried to ban or censor last year
Battles have erupted at schools, school boards and library meetings across the country as parents, lawmakers and advocacy groups are debating books. The American Library Association documented more than 1,200 demands to censor books and...
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The current hurdles to putting more electric vehicles on the road
In last week's State of the Union, President Biden reaffirmed his administration's commitment to get more electric vehicles in American driveways. It's estimated that half of all new vehicle sales will be EVs by 2030, but the industry...
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Sanitation to Kenya's Poor
Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya, where private capital is being used to help install toilets and sanitation facilities in the country's poorest areas.
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National parks turn into classrooms for a new generation
At the Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco, students learning by seeing, touching and smelling. The education program is administered by the National Park Service in an attempt to expose the next generation to the...
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Doctors’ Role in Military Interrogation
Doctors' role in enhanced military interrogation 'clearly violates' ethics
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Ethiopia's Abundant Farm Investments
Farms backed by foreign investments are growing with abundance in a country known for famine
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Can Uganda Block Ebola’S Spread From Neighboring Congo?
Eastern parts of Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering from the second-worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in history, with more than 500 dead so far. Neighboring Uganda is watching with concern as the crisis unfolds, wary of...
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Why Americans are lonelier and its effects on our health
According to U.S. Census Bureau surveys, Americans have been spending less time with friends and more time alone since before the pandemic, which has only intensified the sense of social isolation. Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist...
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British Garment Factories Come Under New Scrutiny Due To Pandemic
The British city of Leicester has spent more than two months as the United Kingdom’s most notorious coronavirus hot spot. Its problems originally sprang from a district that houses garment factories -- where some unscrupulous owners have...
SciShow
Is There Such a Thing As An Addictive Personality?
Some online quizzes would have you believe the idea that certain people have a specific “personality type”. But is an “addictive personality” a real thing?
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Music And Measure Theory
How one of the introductory ideas in a field called "measure theory" can be thought of in terms of musical harnomy and dissonance.