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Poetic Heist: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag
At TEDYouth 2011, Performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken…
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A prosthetic eye to treat blindness - Sheila Nirenberg
At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending s…
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A doctor's touch - Abraham Verghese
Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new w…
4 days, 2 hours ago
The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris Castelo
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-silk-road-history-s-first-world-wide-web-shannon-harris-castelo
With modern technology, a global excha…
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How long can your hair grow? - Maksim Plikus
Dig into what biological factors influence hair growth, how it can change as you age, and how to take control of your scalp.
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At age 44, Xie Qiuping …
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The most common blunder lottery winners make
Dig into the pros and cons of annuity and lump sum lottery payouts, and find out the most common mistakes lottery winners make.
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After winning the lo…
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A brief history of the devil - Brian A. Pavlac
Download a free audiobook version of "Devil in the White City" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed
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Satan, the bea…
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3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship - Majora Carter
The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. In her talk, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own commun…
4 days, 4 hours ago
The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3
The adventure continues! Episode 3: Ethic and Hedge must sabotage the furnace-bots to get to the first artifact. Can they find a way out?
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This is e…
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How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein
Explore the eye-opening science of LASIK: corrective laser eye surgery that focuses on reshaping the cornea to fix blurry vision.
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In 1948, Spanish o…
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