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Pavlovian reflexes aren't only for dogs - Benjamin N. Witts
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/pavlovian-reactions-aren-t-just-for-dogs-benjamin-n-witts
Dr. Ivan Pavlov's groundbreaking work revealed t…
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From mach-20 glider to hummingbird-mimicking drone - Regina Dugan
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could…
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Humans are all practically the same... practically - Greg Foot
Dig into why ethnic diversity is so important to medical research when creating new treatments and medicines for diseases.
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While all humans share 99…
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What did people endure before anesthesia? - Sally Frampton
Trace the history of anesthesia from the 3rd century to today, and explore how doctors performed surgery before anesthetic drugs.
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The quest for anes…
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The hunt for other Earth-like planets - Olivier Guyon
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Billions of stars. Billions of galaxies. A thousand years just …
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A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes
Explore the history of the toilet and how waste management has evolved from from ancient Mesopotamia to modern day.
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On sunny days, citizens of ancie…
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An enormous bubble for debate - Liz Diller
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How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? …
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Why did three popes reign at once? - Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Dig into the history of the Papal Schism, which caused a split in the Catholic Church while 3 popes vied for supremacy.
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For almost two millennia, t…
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What it means if you spot faces in objects - Susan G. Wardle
Dig into the phenomenon of face pareidolia, which is the tendency of our brains to see faces in everyday objects.
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Imagine opening a bag of chips, on…
4 days, 5 hours ago
Let's educate kids in coding - Mitch Resnick
Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the ben…
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