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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
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Ted: Ted Ed: This Temporary Tattoo Helps Women Have Healthy Pregnancies

For Students 9th - 10th
Bioelectronics innovator Todd Coleman shares his quest to develop wearable, flexible electronic health monitoring patches that promise to revolutionize healthcare and make medicine less invasive. [9:39]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Do We Really Need Pesticides?

For Students 9th - 10th
Annually, we shower over 5 billion pounds of pesticides across the Earth to control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply. But is it worth it, knowing what we do about the associated...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Are Food Preservatives Bad for You?

For Students 9th - 10th
Food doesn't last. In days, sometimes hours, bread goes moldy, apple slices turn brown, and bacteria multiply in mayonnaise. But you can find all of these foods out on the shelf at the grocery store thanks to preservatives. But what...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Am I Really a Visual Learner?

For Students 9th - 10th
You might consider yourself a visual learner, but is there really a way to categorize different types of students? [2:30]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Do You Get Rid of Acne?

For Students 9th - 10th
Most of us have dealt with acne during puberty, or maybe even after that. And the question is always, "how do I get rid of it?" SciShow explains what causes acne, and how we can get rid of it appropriately. [8:52]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Causes Cavities?

For Students 9th - 10th
When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes. So what causes cavities, and how can we avoid them? [5:00]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens to Our Bodies After We Die?

For Students 9th - 10th
Farnaz Khatibi Jafari traces the evolution of how humanity has treated bodies and burials. [4:41]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Is It Bad to Hold Your Pee?

For Students 9th - 10th
Humans should urinate at least four to six times a day, but occasionally, the pressures of modern life force us to clench and hold it in. How bad is this habit, and how long can our bodies withstand it? Heba Shaheed takes us inside the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Survive Prolonged Space Travel?

For Students 9th - 10th
Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations. As we seriously consider the human species becoming space-faring, a big...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Would Happen if the World Went Vegetarian?

For Students 9th - 10th
What would the planet look like if everyone became a vegetarian right now? [3:46]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Contraceptives Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Contraceptives are designed to prevent pregnancy in three basic ways: they either block sperm, disable sperm before they reach the uterus, or suppress ovulation. But is one strategy better than the other? And how does each one work?...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Americans Got Stuck With Endless Drug Commercials

For Students 9th - 10th
Drug commercials are a relatively new phenomenon, and a strange sight in most of the world. So why do Americans see so many of them, and what are they doing to our health? [9:12]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Aphasia: The Disorder That Makes You Lose Your Words

For Students 9th - 10th
Susan Wortman-Jutt details a disorder called aphasia, which can impair all aspects of communication. [5:10]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How a Single Celled Organism Almost Wiped Out Life on Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Anusuya Willis explains how cyanobacteria, simple organisms that don't even have nuclei or any other organelles, wrote a pivotal chapter in the story of life on Earth. [4:14]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Which Sunscreen Should You Choose?

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Poffenroth explains how sunscreens work and compares different application methods, SPFs, and active ingredients to help you make the best choice. [4:39]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Causes Addiction?

For Students 9th - 10th
What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple. Kurzgesagt takes a closer look at some of the other factors involved. [5:41]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We Hiccup?

For Students 9th - 10th
The longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years and was caused by a falling hog. While that level of severity is extremely uncommon, most of us are no stranger to an occasional case of the hiccups. But what causes these hics in...
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Ted: Ted Ed: An Exercise in Self Compassion

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an exercise from the School of Life on how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation and learn to appreciate the role of self-care in a good and fruitful life. [4:42]
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Missing Plague That Could Have Changed History

For Students 9th - 10th
When European colonizers came to American shores, the plague they brought with them killed almost 90% of the indigenous population. But why was there no existing plague in the "New World" that affected Europeans? [12:08]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does It Grow? Potatoes

For Students 9th - 10th
America eats more potatoes than any other vegetable. Follow the spud from field to factory to learn how it grows and how it's turned into the beloved potato chip. [5:58]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Obesity?

For Students 9th - 10th
Obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer. But what is the distinction between being overweight and being obese?...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does It Grow? Apples

For Students 9th - 10th
Apples are one of the world's most common fruits. They might seem like a simple thing to grow- but they're anything but! [5:33]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body and Your Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Are sports as good for us as we make them out to be, or are they just a fun and entertaining pastime? Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh show what science has to say on the matter. [3:46]