TED Talks

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4:45

Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight

Posted Apr 2021

4:55

Jacques S. Abramowicz

How does ultrasound work?

Posted Apr 2021

19:36

Michael Levin

The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life

Posted Mar 2021

8:42

Natsai Audrey Chieza

Possible futures from the intersection of nature, tech and society

Posted Mar 2021

4:52

Chase LaDue and Bruce A. Schulte

The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk

Posted Mar 2021

4:37

Briana Brownell

How does artificial intelligence learn?

Posted Mar 2021

10:59

Antoine Gourévitch

What is deep tech? A look at how it could shape the future

Posted Mar 2021

4:51

Heather Malyuk

Can loud music damage your hearing?

Posted Mar 2021

5:06

TED-Ed

The material that could change the world ... for a third time

Posted Mar 2021

4:55

TED-Ed

The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery

Posted Feb 2021

4:20

TED-Ed

The "myth" of the boiling frog

Posted Feb 2021

12:09

Matt Langione

The promise of quantum computers

Posted Feb 2021

4:51

Thomas L. Dawson

What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it?

Posted Feb 2021

4:49

Melanie E. Peffer

The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine

Posted Feb 2021

4:26

Karen Scrivener

A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions

Posted Feb 2021

4:45

Carolyn Marshall

Why didn't this 2,000 year old body decompose?

Posted Feb 2021

4:28

Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti

The world's most dangerous fart

Posted Feb 2021

5:26

John Kitching

Who decides how long a second is?

Posted Jan 2021

4:37

Robert Siddall

These squids can fly... no, really

Posted Jan 2021

5:20

Lucy Cooke

3 bizarre (and delightful) ancient theories about bird migration

Posted Dec 2020

4:38

Matteo Fadel

Can you win a game of quantum foosball?

Posted Dec 2020

6:05

Alex Rosenthal

The world's largest organism

Posted Dec 2020

15:20

Emily Levesque

A stellar history of modern astronomy

Posted Dec 2020

5:35

Jeff Dekofsky

The most colorful gemstones on Earth

Posted Dec 2020

4:06

Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz

Why is pneumonia so dangerous?

Posted Nov 2020

6:34

Sophie Rose

How COVID-19 human challenge trials work — and why I volunteered

Posted Nov 2020

7:27

Andrew Pelling

Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus?

Posted Nov 2020

10:46

Johanna Benesty

What it takes to crush a pandemic

Posted Nov 2020

4:53

Seena Mathew

How fast is the speed of thought?

Posted Nov 2020

5:17

Christian Moro

Why do you get a fever when you're sick?

Posted Nov 2020

5:31

Anees Bahji

How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body?

Posted Nov 2020

4:28

David L. Hu

Do larger animals take longer to pee?

Posted Nov 2020

9:16

Mandë Holford

The power of venom — and how it could one day save your life

Posted Oct 2020

20:59

Leor Weinberger

Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

Posted Oct 2020

11:24

Thomas Crowther

The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity

Posted Oct 2020

1h 4m

Hosted by Chris Hemsworth and Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Countdown Session 5: Action (Full session)

Posted Oct 2020