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5:07

Orisanmi Burton

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion

Posted May 2021

5:06

Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll

What's in the air you breathe?

Posted May 2021

14:52

Daniel Kraft

How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine

Posted May 2021

4:57

Alex Gendler

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper

Posted May 2021

9:18

Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Why children of immigrants experience guilt — and strategies to cope

Posted May 2021

4:19

Cory Combs

The future of flying is electrifying

Posted May 2021

5:11

Ilan Stavans

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

Posted May 2021

12:44

Marcos Aguiar

7 tools for building a business people trust

Posted May 2021

4:41

Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea

Posted May 2021

5:15

Rumaitha Al Busaidi

Women and girls, you are part of the climate solution

Posted May 2021

4:43

Sara C. Mednick

How long should your naps be?

Posted Apr 2021

16:02

Adam Grant

What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again

Posted Apr 2021

6:15

Angel Hsu

Cities are driving climate change. Here's how they can fix it

Posted Apr 2021

5:15

Alex Gendler

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

Posted Apr 2021

11:32

Daniel J. Watts

To accomplish great things, you need to "let the paint dry"

Posted Apr 2021

5:08

Dennis E. Shasha

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma?

Posted Apr 2021

4:44

Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor

How do wind turbines work?

Posted Apr 2021

7:50

John Marshall

3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change

Posted Apr 2021

22:25

Lisa Genova

How your memory works — and why forgetting is totally OK

Posted Apr 2021

5:46

Alex Gendler

How the world's tallest skyscraper was built

Posted Apr 2021

4:57

Justin Schmidt

The world's most painful insect sting

Posted Apr 2021

14:19

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines

Posted Apr 2021

10:28

Steven Allison

Earth's original inhabitants — and their role in combating climate change

Posted Apr 2021

6:39

David Gruber

Can we learn to talk to sperm whales?

Posted Apr 2021

4:39

Alex Gendler

Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?

Posted Apr 2021

9:39

Canwen Xu

I am not your Asian stereotype

Posted Apr 2021

14:43

Joan C. Williams

Why corporate diversity programs fail — and how small tweaks can have big impact

Posted Apr 2021

10:52

Megan McArthur

A NASA astronaut's lessons on fear, confidence and preparing for spaceflight

Posted Apr 2021

5:20

Joseph Goffman

Whatever happened to acid rain?

Posted Apr 2021

12:05

Nomava Zanazo

4 myths and misunderstandings about doing business in Africa

Posted Apr 2021

5:08

Erick Wilberding

This tool will help improve your critical thinking

Posted Apr 2021

16:21

Kalika Bali

The giant leaps in language technology — and who's left behind

Posted Apr 2021

4:45

Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight

Posted Apr 2021

11:33

Jens Burchardt

How we can curb climate change by spending two percent more on everything

Posted Apr 2021

15:34

Esther Perel

The routines, rituals and boundaries we need in stressful times

Posted Apr 2021

4:49

TED-Ed

Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death — and how to rescue them

Posted Apr 2021