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Are pandas the most misinterpreted animal? - Lucy Cooke
Uncover the most common misperceptions about pandas, and find out why it's so difficult for them to breed in captivity.
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In the 1930’s, a grand panda…
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Is Chandigarh truly a perfectly planned city? - Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
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In 1947, India a…
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Making waves: The power of concentration gradients - Sasha Wright
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-motion-of-the-ocean-the-concentration-gradient-sasha-wright
The constant motion of our oceans represen…
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On positive psychology - Martin Seligman
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/martin-seligman-on-positive-psychology
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and a…
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Txtng is killing language. JK!!! - John McWhorter
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it …
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The history of the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree
Discover what led American colonists in 1773 to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Before the Revolutiona…
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Creating a digital museum of museums with Amit Sood
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/building-a-museum-of-museums-on-the-web-amit-sood
Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museum…
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The secret force of smiling - Ron Gutman
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-hidden-power-of-smiling-ron-gutman
Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals som…
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Can you navigate the magical maze riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd
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Today is the annual wizard tournament featuring competitors from three schools, and you…
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The corpse flower could disturb your nighttime rest - Daniel Nickrent
Explore how the Rafflesia plant uses parasitic strategies to grow the world’s largest flower, and find out why it smells so bad.
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Deep inside the Sum…
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