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History vs. Russia's most notorious empress - Carolyn Harris
Catherine the Great presided over a golden age of Russian expansion — but was she a dedicated ruler or a ruthless oppressor?
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Catherine the Great, Em…
6 days, 7 hours ago
How do you know you're not dreaming? - Daniel Gregory
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Bizarre things happen in dreams: you fly, or conjur…
6 days, 8 hours ago
What is chirality and how did it end up in my molecules? - Michael Evans
Improve your understanding of molecular properties with this lesson on the fascinating property of chirality. Your hands are the secret to understan…
6 days, 9 hours ago
A day in the life of a teenage samurai - Constantine N. Vaporis
Follow young samurai in training Mori Banshirô as he studies the twin paths of literary learning and the martial arts.
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The year is 1800 in the cast…
6 days, 10 hours ago
The Basics of Gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles - Brian Bennett
View full lesson on ed.ted.com http://ed.ted.com/lessons/1207-1-a-bennet-brianh264
How can bottles and balloons help explain the different laws that g…
6 days, 10 hours ago
What's the best way to raise people out of poverty?
Explore different poverty intervention and aid programs, and how direct cash giving can address a community's needs.
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In 2018, a nonprofit gave every…
6 days, 11 hours ago
Why do sinkholes consume entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
Explore the science of sinkholes, how they commonly form, and what human activities can also trigger them.
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It was a rainy December morning in San Fr…
6 days, 12 hours ago
Mysteries of vernacular: Zero - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-zero-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel
Though the first written number system can be …
6 days, 13 hours ago
Women should represent women in media - Megan Kamerick
How do you tell women's stories? Ask women to tell them. At TEDxABQ, Megan Kamerick shows how the news media underrepresents women as reporters and n…
6 days, 14 hours ago
Newton's 3 Laws, via a bicycle - Joshua Manley
Watch full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/joshua-manley-newton-s-3-laws-with-a-bicycle
Why would it be hard to pedal a 10,000 pound bicycle? T…
6 days, 14 hours ago