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Ted: Ted Ed: Self Assembly: The Power of Organizing the Unorganized
From something as familiar as our bodies to things vast as the formation of galaxies, we can observe the process of self-assembly, or when unordered parts come together in an organized structure. Skylar Tibbits explains how we see...
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Ted: Ted Ed: A Call to Invention: Diy Speaker Edition
There's a pleasure in making things for yourself- especially something unexpected. William Gurstelle shows how to make your own speakers from objects probably already laying around your house, like copper wire and an empty yogurt cup. [6...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Early Forensics and Crime Solving Chemists
In a CSI age, we take forensic science for granted. New York did not have a medical examiner or forensic toxicologist until 1918, whose eventual arrival changed the landscape of crime investigation forever. Deborah Blum prompts the TED...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Building the Seed Cathedral
Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, and a power station. And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Haptography: Digitizing Our Sense of Touch
Is it possible to incorporate the sense of touch into the digital world? Katherine Kuchenbecker shares her work in the field of haptics, while discussing its potential to change fields such as gaming, museums, dentistry and stroke...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Visualizing the World's Twitter Data
Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people's lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. Jer Thorp...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Inside Ok Cupid: The Math of Online Dating
Christian Rudder, one of the founders of popular dating site OKCupid, details the algorithm behind connecting couples online. [7:30]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Curiosity Got Us to Mars
In August 2012, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. The landing itself was a huge achievement and required a lot of forethought and planning by a very smart team. Bobak Ferdowsi, the mohawked member of that team, outlines various aspects...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Make Robots Smarter
There are three major rules that we want our robots to follow: do not harm a human, obey us, and protect us. The prerequisite for these rules? We need to make robots smarter. Ayanna Howard explains how robots can become smarter (hint: it...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Rapid Prototyping Google Glass
Rapid prototyping is a method used to accelerate the innovation process. Tom Chi explains how this method was used to create one of Google's newest inventions, Google Glass. [8:08]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens During a Heart Attack?
What causes a heart attack? Krishna Sudhir examines the leading causes and treatments of this deadly disease. [4:54]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Bipolar Disorder?
Helen M. Farrell describes the root causes and treatments for bipolar disorder. [5:58]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Does Chocolate Really Lower Your Blood Pressure?
Alex Dainis puts some media hype around dark chocolate's health benefits to the test. [3:08]
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Milk
Jonathan J. O'Sullivan describes how milk is made. [5:23]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Are Deodorants Bad for You?
Gabriel Weston from Brit Lab looks at how deodorants and antiperspirants work and whether or not the rumors that they can be harmful are true or false. [3:17]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How to Master Your Sense of Smell
Some perfumers can distinguish individual odors in a fragrance made of hundreds of scents; tea-experts have been known to sniff out the exact location of a particular tea; and the NYC Transit Authority once had a employee responsible...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Does This Symbol Actually Mean?
What does the wheelchair image of the International Symbol of Access mean? Adrian Treharne explains. [4:10]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How the Stethoscope Was Invented | Moments of Vision 7
The stethoscope is the single most widely used medical instrument in the world. But where did the idea come from? Jessica Oreck shares the modest origins of this incredibly useful item. [1:48]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?
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
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?
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?
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?
You might consider yourself a visual learner, but is there really a way to categorize different types of students? [2:30]