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What your designs say about you - Sebastian Deterding
What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and what the good life is are reflected…
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The groundbreaking amniotic egg - April Tucker
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-game-changing-amniotic-egg-april-tucker
350 million years ago, eggs could not survive far from water, …
1 day, 22 hours ago
Is it truly that harmful to consume cookie dough? - Emma Bryce
Explore how Salmonella spreads from chickens to humans, and learn how this crafty microscopic pathogen makes us sick.
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Salmonella infects millions wo…
1 day, 23 hours ago
The fortified metropolis: Constantinople - Lars Brownworth
The world owes much of its cultural legacy to Constantinople's walls. When Constantinople was under seige by neighboring enemies, the Roman city's el…
2 days ago
Why we need to go back to Mars - Joel Levine
In this talk, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of anc…
2 days, 1 hour ago
Which voting system is the best? - Alex Gendler
Dive into four different voting systems: plurality, instant runoff, tactical, and the Condorcet method, and find out which is fairest.
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Imagine we w…
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Your smartphone camera isn't quite as impressive as you believe - Rachel Yang
Learn more at https://brilliant.org/TedEd
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When the Visualphone VP210 hit the market in 1999, it advertised a never-before-seen feature: a camera. Wi…
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Why are there so many distinct dog breeds? - Kathleen Morrill Pirovich
Trace the evolution of dog breeds, and find out why their characteristics, behaviors, and personalities vary so widely.
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The immense physical variety…
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Why do rivals establish their shops adjacent to each other? - Jac de Haan
View full lesson on ed.ted.com - http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-competitors-open-their-stores-next-to-one-another-jac-de-haan
Why are all the gas st…
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How inventions transform history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-inventions-change-history-for-better-and-for-worse-kenneth-c-davis
Invented in 1793, the cotton gin ch…
2 days, 5 hours ago