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10:22

Hendrik Poinar

Bring back the woolly mammoth!

Posted May 2013
15:55

Michael Dickinson

How a fly flies

Posted Feb 2013
13:51

Sara Lewis

The loves and lies of fireflies

Posted Jul 2014
18:51

Christoph Adami

Finding life we can't imagine

Posted Oct 2011
10:06

Makiko Eda

The corporation as agent of cultural fusion

Posted Mar 2013
10:25

Angela Belcher

Using nature to grow batteries

Posted Apr 2011
17:24

David Wengrow

A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality

Posted Jul 2022
8:48

Lauren Sallan

A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included)

Posted Feb 2020
9:37

Kayvon Tehranian

How NFTs are building the internet of the future

Posted Oct 2021
4:15

Helen M. Farrell

The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Posted Jan 2019
4:53

Colm Kelleher

The science of symmetry

Posted May 2014
30:01

Alexandra Horowitz

Why all dogs are good dogs

Posted Mar 2023
5:32

Alan Lupack

Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends?

Posted Sep 2018
9:21

Olivia Arthur

Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology

Posted Feb 2021
5:57

Tommy McCall

The simple genius of a good graphic

Posted Sep 2018
0:00

David Andrew Quist

Could fungi actually be the key to humanity's survival?

Posted Feb 2023
4:52

Daniel M. Abrams

Why are some people left-handed?

Posted Feb 2015
13:58

Rebecca Knill

How technology has changed what it's like to be deaf

Posted Feb 2020
4:56

Rod Phillips

A brief history of alcohol

Posted Jan 2020
3:04

Armand D'Angour

The ancient origins of the Olympics

Posted Jul 2021
15:00

Ella Al-Shamahi

Why archaeology needs to transcend borders

Posted Oct 2019
4:01

Jessa Gamble

Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now

Posted Sep 2010
4:44

Victoria Hwang

What is the rarest color in nature?

Posted Jun 2022
5:05

John McWhorter

Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?

Posted Sep 2013
14:11

Lucy Cooke

Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

Posted May 2019
16:50

Mark Ronson

How sampling transformed music

Posted May 2014
12:07

Menno Schilthuizen

How animals and plants are evolving in cities

Posted Aug 2020
0:00

Dennis Hong

7 new species of robot that jump, dance — and walk on water

Posted Jan 2023
11:13

Richard Thompson Ford

A tailored history of who wears what — and why

Posted Nov 2021
4:30

TED-Ed

Why do women have periods?

Posted Oct 2015
20:10

Mark Pagel

How language transformed humanity

Posted Aug 2011
10:54

Christoph Keplinger

The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future

Posted Apr 2019
19:28

Susan Blackmore

Memes and "temes"

Posted Jun 2008
19:24

Robert Full

The sticky wonder of gecko feet

Posted Nov 2007
5:15

Rebecca Tarvin

Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves?

Posted Jul 2018
4:50

Ameya Gondhalekar

Why are cockroaches so hard to kill?

Posted Apr 2022