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4:45

Lieven Scheire

How quantum mechanics explains global warming

Posted Jul 2014
5:14

Shih Chieh Huang

Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea

Posted Jul 2014
4:10

Claudia Aguirre

What makes tattoos permanent?

Posted Jul 2014
4:30

Deborah Gordon

Inside the ant colony

Posted Jul 2014
3:23

Kenneth C. Davis

What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence

Posted Jul 2014
3:36

Doug Levinson

What gives a dollar bill its value?

Posted Jun 2014
4:02

Billy Collins

Two poems about what dogs think (probably)

Posted Jun 2014
4:27

Alexandros Charalambides

Why aren't we only using solar power?

Posted Jun 2014
4:29

Jamila Lyiscott

3 ways to speak English

Posted Jun 2014
4:33

Will Potter

The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest

Posted Jun 2014
5:07

Robert Full

The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

Posted Jun 2014
4:43

Karen D. Davis

How does your brain respond to pain?

Posted Jun 2014
5:00

Kitra Cahana

A glimpse of life on the road

Posted May 2014
4:12

Edmond Hui

How the heart actually pumps blood

Posted May 2014
4:53

Colm Kelleher

The science of symmetry

Posted May 2014
4:19

Dawn Maslar

The science of attraction

Posted May 2014
4:35

Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie

The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2

Posted May 2014
4:37

Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

The case of the missing fractals

Posted Apr 2014
4:11

David Schwartz

Not all scientific studies are created equal

Posted Apr 2014
3:21

Alex Gendler

How tsunamis work

Posted Apr 2014
4:37

Matt Anticole

What's the difference between accuracy and precision?

Posted Apr 2014
5:01

David Brooks

Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

Posted Apr 2014
4:43

David Sengeh

The sore problem of prosthetic limbs

Posted Apr 2014
4:14

George Zaidan

Why is ketchup so hard to pour?

Posted Apr 2014
4:42

Allan Adams

The discovery that could rewrite physics

Posted Apr 2014
4:37

TED staff

It's TED, the Musical

Posted Apr 2014
3:48

Robert Lustig

Sugar: Hiding in plain sight

Posted Mar 2014
3:27

Yannay Khaikin

How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards?

Posted Mar 2014
3:36

John C. Moore and Eric Berlow

Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain

Posted Mar 2014
3:33

Emma Bryce

The case of the vanishing honeybees

Posted Mar 2014
3:39

Rose Eveleth

The science of spiciness

Posted Mar 2014
4:56

Gabe Barcia-Colombo

My DNA vending machine

Posted Mar 2014
3:43

Alex Gendler

Why do we cry? The three types of tears

Posted Feb 2014
3:50

Dennis Wildfogel

What is the universe made of?

Posted Feb 2014
3:35

Asaf Bar-Yosef

An athlete uses physics to shatter world records

Posted Feb 2014
5:00

Richard E. Cytowic

What percentage of your brain do you use?

Posted Jan 2014