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Ted: Ted Ed: When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?
Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard give a quick history of mass extinctions. [5:01]
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Surprising (And Invisible) Signatures of Sea Creatures
On land, animals leave footprints that tell us a lot about their size, form and capabilities. Marine organisms do this too, but these footprints are harder to see since water is translucent. Bioengineer Kakani Katija explains how she...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Do We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were?
The microraptor was a four-winged carnivorous dinosaur with iridescent black feathers. But if our information about this dinosaur comes from fossils, how can we be certain about its color? Len Bloch shows how making sense of the evidence...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Snowflakes
One could say that snowflakes are simply frozen water - but if you compare a snowflake to an ice cube, you'll notice a big difference. Why are all snowflakes six-sided? Why are none of them exactly the same? And how do we ski on them?...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Sun's Surprising Movement Across the Sky
Suppose you placed a camera at a fixed position, took a picture of the sky at the same time every day for an entire year, and overlaid all of the photos on top of each other. What would the sun look like in that combined image? A...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What's the Difference Between a Scientific Law and Theory?
What is the difference between a theory and a law, and is one better? Matt Anticole shows why science needs both laws and theories to understand the whole picture. [5:12]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How I Teach Kids to Love Science
Science class, how do you feel about it? How would you feel if you were allowed to choose any local, remote, or global environmental problem to fix? What would you choose? How would you go about fixing it? Cesar Harada's science class...
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Ted: Ted Ed: A Curable Condition That Causes Blindness
Andrew Bastawrous gives the facts on cataracts and blindness. [4:23]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Smart Are Dolphins?
Lori Marino details some incredible facts about dolphins nad their intelligence. [4:51]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Actually Live on Mars?
Mari Foroutan details the features of Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Earth- and those that can only be found on the red planet. [4:30]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does a Jellyfish Sting?
Neosha S. Kashef details the science behind the jellyfish sting. [4:17]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think
It takes light a zippy eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But how long does it take that same light to travel from the Sun's core to its surface? Oddly enough, the answer is many thousands of years. Sten Odenwald...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Neutrinos Matter
Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks in the universe- and the neutrino is one of the smallest of the small. These tiny neutrinos can tell us about the furthest reaches and most extreme environments of the universe...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How to Unboil an Egg
It's so obvious that it's practically proverbial: you can't unboil an egg. But actually, it turns out that you can- sort of. Eleanor Nelsen explains the process by which mechanical energy can undo what thermal energy has done. [4:10]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away?
Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world. [4:07]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Geckos Defy Gravity?
Geckos aren't covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortlessly scale vertical walls and hang from ceilings. What's going on? Eleanor Nelsen explains how geckos' phenomenal feet allow them to defy gravity. [4:30]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How We Think Complex Cells Evolved
Adam Jacobson explains endosymbiosis, a type of symbiosis in which one symbiotic organism lives inside another. [5:42]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why the Arctic Is Climate Change's Canary in the Coal Mine
William Chapman explains why scientists often describe the Arctic as the "canary in the coal mine" when it comes to climate change. [3:59]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Mc Donald's Cup Sizes Around the World
Ready to super size that soda? Buzzfeed produced this clever video comparing the various soda cup sizes from countries around the world. Which country has largest option to consume soda? [1:05]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Candy Corn in Space
Watch NASA astronaut Don Pettit create zero gravity candy corn balls on the International Space Station. [2:57]
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Ted: Ted Ed: I'm Batman
Amy Wray disproves the myth that bats are dangerous villains and explains why they, instead, deserve a hero's welcome- and our protection. [5:48]
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Ted: Ted Ed: The 2400 Year Search for the Atom
How do we know what matter is made of? The quest for the atom has been a long one, beginning 2,400 years ago with the work of a Greek philosopher and later continued by a Quaker and a few Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Theresa Doud...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Hidden Worlds Within Natural History Museums
When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs or meteorites. But behind that educational exterior, there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Stop an Asteroid?
Bill Nye, the science guy, joins AsapSCIENCE, to talk about asteroids. Specifically, he looks at why asteroids can be so deadly to the Earth, as well as how we detect them and how we possibly stop them. [7:07]