How mucus keeps us healthy – Katharina Ribbeck
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-mucus-keeps-us-healthy-katharina-ribbeck Your body produces more than a liter of muc...
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How North America got its shape – Peter J. Haproff
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-north-america-got-its-shape-peter-j-haproff North America didn’t always have its fam...
How one piece of legislation divided a nation – Ben Labaree, Jr.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-legislation-that-birthed-the-republican-party-ben-labaree-jr You may think that thin...
How one scientist took on the chemical industry – Mark Lytle
Discover the groundbreaking environmental work of Rachel Carson, whose book “Silent Spring” explores how human actions threaten the...
How one teenager unearthed baseball’s untold history – Cam Perron
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-one-teenager-unearthed-baseball-s-untold-history-cam-perron Teenager Cam Perron love...
How one woman put man on the moon – Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton
Learn how Margaret Hamilton and her team of engineers built the software for the Apollo 11 mission that landed mankind on the Moon....
How open data is changing international aid – Sanjay Pradhan
How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank In...
How optical illusions trick your brain – Nathan S. Jacobs
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-optical-illusions-trick-your-brain-nathan-s-jacobs Optical illusions are images that...
How Pandemics Spread
In our increasingly globalized world, a single infected person can board a plane and spread a virus across continents. Mark Honigsba...
How parasites change their host’s behavior – Jaap de Roode
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-parasites-change-their-host-s-behavior-jaap-de-roode The biggest challenge in a para...