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unexpected ways microplastics can enter your body
Explore how the microplastics in your body can affect your health, and how we can regulate the amount of plastic in our world.
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Plastic is everywhere…
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How does heart transplant surgery function? - Roni Shanoada
Dig into the science of how heart transplants happen, how donors are matched and find out how this complex surgery saves lives.
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Your heart beats mor…
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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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What if your president was determined by lottery? - Michael Vazquez
Dig into sortition, a system where officials are selected via lottery, and how it could address the problems of modern democracies.
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Elections are to…
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Questions Nobody Has Answers to (Full Version)
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In the first of a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosi…
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How did ancient cultures produce beer? - Malcolm Purinton
Trace the history and evolution of beer, from its first known existence 13,000 years ago to the modern beverage we know today.
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Today, there are over…
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Energy from buoyant algae pods - Jonathan Trent
Call it "fuel without fossils": Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat was…
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Symbiosis: A remarkable account of species partnership - David Gonzales
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Different species often depend on one another. David Go…
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Do artists actually create their own songs? | Think Like A Musician
Professional songwriters share their writing process, how they collaborate with other artists, and what it takes to be a songwriter.
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"Think Like A M…
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How straightforward ideas lead to scientific discoveries
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have follo…
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