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Can you solve the computer virus riddle? - James Tanton
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Your antivirus squad is up against a code that’s hijacked your mainframe. What you’ve l…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Can you work out the basketball riddle? - Dan Katz
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You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re e…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
A tale of mental illness -- from the inside - Elyn Saks
"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks cam…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Can AI foresee someone's breakup? - Thomas Hofweber
Explore one of the main issues of AI-based predictive models and how it affects user decision-making and accountability.
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A couple has been consideri…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
The El Sistema musical revolution - Jose Antonio Abreu
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Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a yout…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
How to spot a liar - Pamela Meyer
On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of L…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Why are scientists obsessed with the Black Sea? - Helen Farr and Jon Adams
Discover the unique conditions that make the Black Sea host to dozens of shipwrecks that date back thousands of years.
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In 2017, researchers off the…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
How art shapes cultural transformation - Thelma Golden
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-art-gives-shape-to-cultural-change-thelma-golden
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Why fish outperform you at breathing - Dan Kwartler
Explore how fish use their gills to breathe, and how these processes make them some of the most efficient breathers on Earth.
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Recent studies found t…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Why I'm a weekday vegetarian - Graham Hill
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-i-m-a-weekday-vegetarian-graham-hill
We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the…
4 weeks ago