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4:40
Sarah Kay
"A Bird Made of Birds"
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Jun 2019
4:28
Gillian Gibb
Why can't some birds fly?
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Oct 2018
13:07
Washington Wachira
For the love of birds
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Nov 2017
28:10
Tim Birkhead
The early birdwatchers
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Sep 2010
13:47
Peter McIndoe
Birds aren't real? How a conspiracy takes flight
Posted
Sep 2023
12:56
Arjan Dwarshuis
What birdspotting can teach us about conservation
Posted
Nov 2019
9:47
Carin Bondar
The birds and the bees are just the beginning
Posted
Mar 2014
16:09
Jim Al-Khalili
How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions
Posted
Aug 2015
16:30
Nalini Nadkarni
Conserving the canopy
Posted
Mar 2009
5:20
Lucy Cooke
3 bizarre (and delightful) ancient theories about bird migration
Posted
Dec 2020
5:34
Juliana Machado Ferreira
The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
Posted
Mar 2010
21:58
Steven Strogatz
The science of sync
Posted
Dec 2008
5:04
Steve Rothstein
Would you raise the bird that murdered your children?
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Dec 2021
5:46
Julian Treasure
The 4 ways sound affects us
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Oct 2009
4:17
TED-Ed
Can you change your sleep schedule?
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Sep 2023
9:30
Topher White
What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
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Mar 2015
4:28
Marie Brodsky
Can you solve the birthday cake riddle?
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Jan 2022
14:10
James B. Glattfelder
Who controls the world?
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Feb 2013
19:15
Mac Stone
Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
Posted
Sep 2015
8:55
Amelia Laytham
Rediscovering heritage through dance
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Oct 2016
4:38
Bassam Tariq
The beauty and diversity of Muslim life
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Jan 2015
4:09
Philip Freeman
A day in the life of a Celtic Druid
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Sep 2019
3:11
Mona Chalabi
What we miss when we focus on the average
Posted
Nov 2021
14:48
Bernie Krause
The voice of the natural world
Posted
Jul 2013
5:17
Christian Moro
Why do you get a fever when you're sick?
Posted
Nov 2020
3:49
Maria R. D’Orsogna
Why do animals form swarms?
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Sep 2018
11:25
Carolyn Bertozzi
What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you
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Aug 2017
15:16
Mia Birdsong
The story we tell about poverty isn't true
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Sep 2015
15:09
Dee Boersma
Pay attention to penguins
Posted
May 2010
4:03
Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles
How pigeons took over the world
Posted
Mar 2022
3:12
Carl Zimmer
How did feathers evolve?
Posted
May 2013
5:02
Masako Tamaki
Can you be awake and asleep at the same time?
Posted
May 2021
16:38
Charles Anderson
Dragonflies that fly across oceans
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Dec 2009
10:46
Lauren Pharr
How vultures can help solve crimes
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May 2018
11:52
Kees Moeliker
How a dead duck changed my life
Posted
Apr 2013
11:43
Dyan deNapoli
The great penguin rescue
Posted
Aug 2011
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