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The arts festival movement - David Binder
David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals dance and perform on …
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Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions - Nina Medvinskaya
Dive into Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, and explore the question: if the world is meaningless, could our lives still hold value?
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Albert C…
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Why is it so challenging to treat the common cold?
Dig into the two main ways we fight the viruses that cause the common cold, and find out if it’s possible to create a cure.
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On average, adults catc…
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Merits and limitations of public opinion polls - Jason Robert Jaffe
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/pros-and-cons-of-public-opinion-polls-jason-robert-jaffe
How do public opinion polls work? And, more impor…
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The sibling rivalry that tore a town apart - Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer
Explore the psychology of social identity and in-group bias and discover the conditions that cause people to turn against one another.
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One day a pai…
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Could this technology stop all viruses?
Explore how scientists are developing a flu vaccine that would protect you against every strain— even ones that don’t exist yet.
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There’s a vaccine b…
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What is fat? - George Zaidan
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-fat-george-zaidan
As the narrative goes, fat is bad. Well, it's actually more nuanced than that. T…
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The science of love's fall - Shannon Odell
Travel into the brain to see what happens when you fall in love and explore how the brain responds to heartbreak.
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Love is often described as heartwa…
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Could tissue engineering lead to personalized medicine? - Nina Tandon
Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts differently, often un…
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How do we develop a better economy?
Explore the model known as doughnut economics, which aims to meet the needs of people without overshooting Earth's ecological limits.
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Can we call an…
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