TED Talks

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3:04

Armand D'Angour

The ancient origins of the Olympics

Posted Jul 2021

4:54

Andrew McDonald

The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man

Posted Jul 2021

5:00

Marcus du Sautoy

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Posted Jul 2021

4:38

Jonathan Smith

How do governments create money out of thin air?

Posted Jul 2021

5:13

Lukas Rieppel

The most notorious scientific feud in history

Posted Jul 2021

5:38

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

History's deadliest king

Posted Jul 2021

4:37

Stefan Al

Could we build a wooden skyscraper?

Posted Jul 2021

5:39

Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Posted Jul 2021

5:00

Darien Satterfield

Real-life "Alien" jaws

Posted Jun 2021

5:37

Iseult Gillespie

How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis

Posted Jun 2021

4:36

Shravan S K

Can you cheat death by solving this riddle?

Posted Jun 2021

5:02

Luis Zambrano

These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die)

Posted Jun 2021

5:31

Haimanti Roy

Why was India split into two countries?

Posted Jun 2021

4:46

Meg Jacobs

What few people know about the program that "saved" America

Posted Jun 2021

5:05

Francis de los Reyes

A brief history of toilets

Posted Jun 2021

5:28

Luka Seamus Wright

The sharks that hunt in forests

Posted Jun 2021

4:53

Sheila Marie Orfano

How do you know what's true?

Posted Jun 2021

5:07

Susan M. Reverby

Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment

Posted Jun 2021

4:57

Mark Robinson

A day in the life of the Oracle of Delphi

Posted Jun 2021

4:03

Nina G. Jablonski

Why do we have hair in such random places?

Posted Jun 2021

5:07

Soraya Field Fiorio

The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death

Posted Jun 2021

5:07

Dennis Shasha

Can you solve the Trojan War riddle?

Posted May 2021

4:25

Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone?

Posted May 2021

4:59

Alex Gendler

The woman who stared at the sun

Posted May 2021

5:12

Gary Devore

Run, sail or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii

Posted May 2021

5:02

Masako Tamaki

Can you be awake and asleep at the same time?

Posted May 2021

4:32

Marianne Schwarz

What causes migraines?

Posted May 2021

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

4:57

Alex Gendler

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper

Posted May 2021

5:11

Ilan Stavans

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

Posted May 2021

4:41

Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea

Posted May 2021

4:43

Sara C. Mednick

How long should your naps be?

Posted Apr 2021

5:15

Alex Gendler

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

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