Mysteries of vernacular: Tuxedo – Jessica Oreck
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-tuxedo-jessica-oreck How did tuxedo’s roots extend from Na...
Education
- Sort by: Latest
How do you know whom to trust? – Ram Neta
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-you-know-whom-to-trust-ram-neta We believe a lot of things because we’ve be...
The dance of the dung beetle – Marcus Byrne
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling it...
A host of heroes – April Gudenrath
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-host-of-heroes-april-gudenrath What can some of literature’s most famous heroes...
Pool medical patents, save lives – Ellen ‘t Hoen
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/pool-medical-patents-save-lives-ellen-t-hoen Patenting a new drug helps finance its imme...
A 40-year plan for energy – Amory Lovins
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-40-year-plan-for-energy-amory-lovins In this intimate talk filmed at TED’s offic...
The optimism bias – Tali Sharot
Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on t...
404, the story of a page not found – Renny Gleeson
Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and...
Feats of memory anyone can do – Joshua Foer
There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much mo...
Music and emotion through time – Michael Tilson Thomas
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/music-and-emotion-through-time-michael-tilson-thomas In this epic overview, Michael Tils...