Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet – Rose Eveleth
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/cicadas-the-dormant-army-beneath-your-feet-rose-eveleth Every 13 or 17 years, billions o...
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The moon illusion – Andrew Vanden Heuvel
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-moon-illusion-andrew-vanden-heuvel Have you noticed how the full moon looks bigger o...
The neurons that shaped civilization – VS Ramachandran
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vs-ramachandran-the-neurons-that-shaped-civilization Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandr...
The beautiful tricks of flowers – Jonathan Drori
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jonathan-driori-the-beautiful-tricks-of-flowers In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan...
Your online life, permanent as a tattoo – Juan Enriquez
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this shor...
The key to growth? Race with the machines – Erik Brynjolfsson
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No...
Txtng is killing language. JK!!! – John McWhorter
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistic...
The art of asking – Amanda Palmer
Don’t make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street perfor...
A clean energy proposal — race to the top! – Jennifer Granholm
Kicking off the TED2013 conference, Jennifer Granholm asks a very American question with worldwide implications: How do we make more...
How we found the giant squid – Edith Widder
Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive dee...