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Biology
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Biology.
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Video playlists about Biology
10 talks
The most popular TED Talks of 2022
What ideas intrigued and inspired the world this year? These TED Talks spread the quickest in 2022.
10 talks
The most popular TED Talks of 2021
What ideas captured people's attention and took off the quickest? Here are the talks that intrigued and inspired in 2021.
18 talks
The fight against viruses
What we do (and don't) know about viruses, pandemics and the vaccines that combat them.
8 talks
Theories of evolution
The enduring ideas, discoveries and observations that define and expand life as we know it.
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Talks about Biology
04:52
Carly Anne York
Want to know if you're pregnant? Use this frog
4 minutes 52 seconds
16:15
Amy Baxter
How to hack your brain when you're in pain
16 minutes 15 seconds
12:06
Shane Campbell-Staton
How life on Earth adapts to you and me
12 minutes 6 seconds
04:25
Susan G. Wardle
Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia
4 minutes 25 seconds
09:20
David M. Howard
Can we recreate the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy?
9 minutes 20 seconds
11:59
Normand Voyer
Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places?
11 minutes 59 seconds
04:58
G. Richard Scott
Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn't?
4 minutes 58 seconds
08:08
Prosanta Chakrabarty
The new natural history
8 minutes 8 seconds
05:14
Kathryn M. Stephenson and David L. Suskind
What is a poop transplant, and how does it work?
5 minutes 14 seconds
05:42
Susan Freitas and Darren Parker
How does this all-female species reproduce?
5 minutes 42 seconds
04:43
Malachy McHugh
How stretching actually changes your muscles
4 minutes 43 seconds
12:44
Michael Middlebrooks
The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs
12 minutes 44 seconds
09:26
Saad Bhamla
The fascinating physics of insect pee
9 minutes 26 seconds
05:13
Shannon N. Tessier
Can you freeze your body and come back to life?
5 minutes 13 seconds
05:06
Shannon Odell
When are you actually an adult?
5 minutes 6 seconds
05:32
Miles Zhang
The bizarre world of parasitic wasps
5 minutes 32 seconds
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