The Power of Simple Words – Terin Izil
Long, fancy words designed to show off your intelligence and vocabulary are all very well, but they aren’t always the best wor...
How Pandemics Spread
In our increasingly globalized world, a single infected person can board a plane and spread a virus across continents. Mark Honigsba...
Why Can’t We See Evidence of Alien Life?
Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older...
Questions No One Knows the Answers to
In the first of a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with qui...
How many universes are there? – Chris Anderson
View the full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-un… The fact that no one knows the answer to this question is what ma...
Evolution in a Big City
Using newts, coyotes and mice, Jason Munshi-South shows how animals develop genetic differences in evolution, even within an urban c...
The Cockroach Beatbox
By dissecting a cockroach … yes, live on stage … TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and de...
How Containerization Shaped the Modern World
Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, descri...
