The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain – Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mysterious-workings-of-the-adolescent-brain-sarah-jayne-blakemore Why do teenagers s...
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Why architects need to use their ears – Julian Treasure
Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble...
What is the Internet, really? – Andrew Blum
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was reall...
A story about knots and surgeons – Ed Gavagan
One day, Ed Gavagan was sitting on the subway, watching two young med students practicing their knots. And a powerful memory washed...
What we’re learning from 5,000 brains – Read Montague
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity...
What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe – Ben Goldacre
When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of...
Mining literature for deeper meanings – Amy E. Harter
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mining-literature-for-deeper-meanings-amy-e-harter Writing a great English paper can be...
Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish – K. Erica Dodge
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/gyotaku-the-ancient-japanese-art-of-printing-fish-k-erica-dodge How did fishermen record...
Making sense of maps – Aris Venetikidis
Map designer Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city — less like street maps,...
What on Earth is spin? – Brian Jones
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-on-earth-is-spin-brian-jones Why does the Earth spin? Does a basketball falling fro...