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4:25

Jill Dash

Why should you read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding?

Posted Dec 2019

5:08

Emma Bryce

How does the immune system work?

Posted Sep 2018

4:32

Eleanor Nelsen

Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment

Posted Jan 2017

11:20

Tyler DeWitt

Hey science teachers — make it fun

Posted Feb 2013

16:09

Patricia Burchat

Shedding light on dark matter

Posted Aug 2008

11:22

Eduardo Briceño

How to get better at the things you care about

Posted Feb 2017

14:16

Julie Lythcott-Haims

How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting

Posted Sep 2016

6:30

Jason Shen

Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience

Posted Feb 2018

13:02

Su Santidad el Papa Francisco

Nuestro imperativo moral para actuar sobre el cambio climático — y 3 pasos que podemos dar

Posted Jan 2021

13:02

His Holiness Pope Francis

Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take (English voiceover)

Posted Jan 2021

5:21

Soraya Field Fiorio

The rise and fall of history's first empire

Posted Oct 2020

5:49

TED-Ed

3 ways to end a virus

Posted Dec 2022

4:43

Shunan Teng

How the Monkey King escaped the underworld

Posted Apr 2020

5:25

TED-Ed

The surprising effects of pregnancy

Posted Oct 2020

6:10

Camilo Ramirez

The problem with the U.S. bail system

Posted Sep 2020

14:19

Gonzalo Vilariño

How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions

Posted Aug 2016

4:54

Roni Shanoada

How does heart transplant surgery work?

Posted May 2022

12:22

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

What it takes to be racially literate

Posted May 2018

4:32

Anees Bahji

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat?

Posted May 2022

9:50

Matt Beane

How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?

Posted Feb 2019

5:32

David Biello

The year without summer

Posted May 2023

8:05

Channing Gerard Joseph

How Black queer culture shaped history

Posted Feb 2023

4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

Who was the world's first author?

Posted Mar 2020

5:14

Jay Van Bavel

Do politics make us irrational?

Posted Feb 2020

5:40

Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou

How we can detect pretty much anything

Posted Aug 2021

4:45

Soraya Field Fiorio

The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar

Posted Aug 2019

5:39

Tierney Thys and Plankton Chronicles Project

The secret life of plankton

Posted Apr 2012

17:34

Howard C. Stevenson

How to resolve racially stressful situations

Posted Feb 2018

4:09

Zohreh Davoudi

Are we living in a simulation?

Posted Oct 2019

9:48

Cesar Harada

How I teach kids to love science

Posted Oct 2015

5:09

Fabio Pacucci

Newton's three-body problem explained

Posted Aug 2020

4:49

Brandon Rodriguez

The power of creative constraints

Posted Sep 2018

6:36

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet

Posted Jul 2020

5:17

Marc Fagelson

What's that ringing in your ears?

Posted Aug 2020

4:19

Laura Wright

Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy?

Posted Sep 2019

4:29

Soraya Field Fiorio

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Posted Jan 2021