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Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle? - Dan Finkel
You’ve promised to get your son the cutest creature in creation: the cuddly. Can you outsmart the cuddly incubator and go home a hero?
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You’ve promis…
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The mysterious depths of paintings - Maurizio Seracini
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci's lost fresco "The Battle of Anghiari…
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Let's unite our medical data - John Wilbanks
When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know a…
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Actually, the world isn't two-dimensional - Pankaj Ghemawat
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It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where id…
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Is inequality inescapable?
Explore how economic inequality can be measured and how it is impacted by different governmental policy choices.
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Income and wealth inequality are no…
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A brief history of alcohol - Rod Phillips
Trace the 7,000 year old history of alcohol, from its first known origins in China to cultures all over the world fermenting their own drinks.
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Nobod…
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Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor - Taylor Wilson
Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both…
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Science is for all people, kids included - Beau Lotto and Amy O'Toole
What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the p…
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Should you care what your parents value?
Dig into the Romeo and Juliet Effect, which describes the tendency to find someone more desirable when met by parental opposition.
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In 1972, psycholo…
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The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-case-of-the-missing-fractals-alex-rosenthal-and-george-zaidan
A bump on the head, a mysterious femme f…
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