Summaries of TED-Ed Videos 📚

Why Can Parrots Mimic Human Speech So Well?

A map of the brain - Allan Jones

What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

How does the stock market work? - Oliver Elfenbaum

Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler

How the food you eat affects your gut - Shilpa Ravella

The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie

Why the metric system matters - Matt Anticole

The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie

Is marijuana bad for your brain? - Anees Bahji

What happens to our bodies after we die? - Farnaz Khatibi Jafari

History’s deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto

The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

History vs. Vladimir Lenin - Alex Gendler

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? - Damion Searls

What Do Global Greetings Reveal About Peace?

What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler

How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian

How Can Art Transform Perceptions of Disability?

Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt

What is schizophrenia? - Anees Bahji

If you're an adult mayfly you'll probably die before the end of this video - Luke M. Jacobus

What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

What is depression? - Helen M. Farrell

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

History's "worst" nun - Theresa A. Yugar

The twisting tale of DNA - Judith Hauck

Self-assembly: The power of organizing the unorganized - Skylar Tibbits

How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann

The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinç

Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer

How Do Poisonous Animals Avoid Poisoning Themselves?

How Do Faith and Tradition Interact in Islam?

Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm

What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal Gala

What Is Symmetry and Why Is It Important in Science?

Who Was Rasputin and How Did He Influence the Russian Monarchy?

What Are the Odds of Guessing Answers Correctly?

Visualizing the medical data explosion - Anders Ynnerman

Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle? - Dan Finkel

What Causes Hiccups and Why Do They Occur?

The rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire - Leonora Neville

Are the Northern Lights dangerous? - Fabio Pacucci

How to see with sound - Jacques S. Abramowicz

What does appendix pain feel like? - David R. Flum

Why do people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen

The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

Which is stronger: Glue or tape? - Elizabeth Cox

The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli

What Are the Most Dangerous Elements on the Periodic Table?

Why Iceland's lava is so hard to control - Arianna Soldati

What Led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773?

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie

Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem - Kenny Coogan

The art of asking - Amanda Palmer

Why Read 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood?

The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie

The hidden power of smiling - Ron Gutman

Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death - Iseult Gillespie

What Are Pharyngeal Jaws and How Do They Help Fish?

A brie(f) history of cheese - Paul Kindstedt

How Do Drugs Affect Brain Function and Chemistry?

What Is the Connection Between Identity and Justice?

How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's - Alanna Shaikh

The greatest TED Talk ever sold - Morgan Spurlock

What Will Cities Look Like in 2125 and Why?

How Intelligent Are Dolphins Compared to Humans?

Revenge of the swamp beast - Iseult Gillespie

What makes tattoos permanent? - Claudia Aguirre

The ballet that incited a riot - Iseult Gillespie

How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw

The myth of King Midas and his golden touch - Iseult Gillespie

How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner

How Did H.P. Lovecraft Revolutionize Horror Literature?

A choreographer's creative process in real time - Wayne McGregor

What Are the Challenges for Zero-Carbon Technologies?

History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror - Stephanie Honchell Smith

Which Grocery Bag Is the Most Environmentally Friendly?

Write every day, even if it’s terrible | Think Like A Musician

How Does Artificial Intelligence Learn Through Machine Learning?

The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara

What Are the Best Microbes for Biodegrading Plastics?

Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel

Why Do Companies Make Repairs Difficult for Consumers?

What Surprising Creatures Live in the Deep Sea?

How Do Animals Experience Pain and Suffering?

A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland

What is chirality and how did it get in my molecules? - Michael Evans

What Causes Hallucinations in the Visually Impaired?

How Do Smartphones Accurately Determine Your Location?

The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim

What Is the False Positive Riddle and Its Solution?

What Is Positive Psychology and How Can It Enhance Happiness?

Inside a cartoonist's world - Liza Donnelly

What Was the Eugenics Movement and Its Impact?

Symmetry, reality's riddle - Marcus du Sautoy

What Is the Story Behind Archimedes' Eureka Moment?

What Are the Five Processes of Evolution?

Questions No One Knows the Answers to (Full Version)

Exponential growth: How folding paper can get you to the Moon

Weaving narratives in museum galleries - Thomas P. Campbell

From enslavement to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus - Fiona Radford

Can saunas make you live longer? - Max G. Levy

Is this the grossest parasite? - Niko Zlotnik

What Are the Ethical Implications of Smallpox Research?

What makes neon signs glow? A 360° animation - Michael Lipman

A brief history of melancholy - Courtney Stephens

The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler

How Did Ancient Civilizations Create Ice Cream?

What Is an Algorithm and How Do They Work?

How to Conduct an Accurate Poll in a Bias-Prone Election

How to perform brain surgery without making a single cut - Hyunsoo Joshua No

What Do You Need to Know About Homer's Odyssey?

What Are the Benefits and Risks of Eating Soybeans?

What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman

Distant time and the hint of a multiverse - Sean Carroll

What Makes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony So Captivating?

Where is home? - Pico Iyer

A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox

What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir

How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac

What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole

Iceland's secret power - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan

Can you solve the river crossing riddle? - Lisa Winer

How Many Verb Tenses Are in English?

Ethical riddles in HIV research - Boghuma Kabisen Titanji

How Can We Eradicate Polio for Good?

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney

How Can We End Torture in Developing Countries?

Who Was Nicolas Bourbaki and His Impact on Mathematics?

The beautiful tricks of flowers - Jonathan Drori

The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen

Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

How to Solve the Stolen Rubies Riddle

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? - Anees Bahji

What are truffles, and why are they so expensive? - Carolyn Beans

Why do we cry? The three types of tears - Alex Gendler

The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie

The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8

Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls - Leymah Gbowee

What Is the History of Dog Domestication?

History vs. Genghis Khan - Alex Gendler

The sneakiest tricksters of the animal kingdom - Eldridge Adams

What Is Pi and How Is It Used in Science?

Why do your knuckles pop? - Eleanor Nelsen

The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan

The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider - Emily Zobel Marshall

Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç

How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano

How Did the Internet Fuel the Egyptian Revolution?

What Is the True Value of the Ocean Today?

Who Should You Save in an Ethical Dilemma?

The tale of the doctor who defied Death - Iseult Gillespie

The surprising effects of pregnancy

What Is the Welfare Trap and How Does It Affect Poverty?

Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes

How Can Our Healthcare System Keep Us Healthy?

Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield

The trillion dollar paradox - George Zaidan

What Were the Causes and Consequences of the Armenian Genocide?

How Is Khan Academy Reinventing Education with Video?

What Caused the Extinction of Megalodon Sharks?

Why Is Picasso's Guernica Considered So Shocking?

Why Is Play Essential for Scientific Discovery?

What Are My Odds of Stealing the Mirzakhani Wand?

Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Dan Finkel

Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu

A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler

String theory - Brian Greene

Why you procrastinate even when it feels bad

What Is the Environmental Impact of T-Shirt Production?

Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler

How the lead industry lied to the public for decades - Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

What Is Deep Brain Stimulation and How Can It Help Treat Disorders?

What Are the Moral Foundations of Liberals and Conservatives?

Let's transform energy -- with natural gas - T. Boone Pickens

The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair

Why can't you divide by zero? - TED-Ed

Behind the Great Firewall of China - Michael Anti

What Metrics Should Leaders Use to Measure Success?

The real tale of the Monkey King in Heaven - Ji Hao

What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen

What Is the Science Behind Macaroni Salad's Molecules?

How to Overcome Obstacles and Prove Doubters Wrong

What Happened to Oedipus and How Did He Fulfill His Fate?

How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic

How does alcohol make you drunk? - Judy Grisel

Are Droids Really Taking Our Jobs? Insights from Andrew McAfee

Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun

What Causes Desert Locusts to Transform into Plagues?

Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan

What Happened to the Ozone Layer and Its Recovery?

This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan

Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern

How to topple a dictator - Srdja Popovic

The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie

The secret sex lives of pandas - Lucy Cooke

Freeing energy from the grid - Justin Hall-Tipping

Does The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Critique Capitalism?

How Do Focus Groups Work in Market Research?

A brief history of the devil - Brian A. Pavlac

How Does Racism Influence Voting Patterns in America?

Can you solve the penniless pilgrim riddle? - Daniel Finkel

How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein

How do drugs make you hallucinate? - Anees Bahji

How Do Bones Produce Blood Cells and Why Is It Important?

How to Find Two Working Batteries in Seven Tries or Less

What happens during a stroke? - Vaibhav Goswami

What Are Earworms and Why Do They Get Stuck in Our Heads?

The oddities of the first American election - Kenneth C. Davis

Why Are US Cities Still Segregated by Race?

How Did Ancient Egyptians Make Mummies?

What Can We Learn from Analyzing 5 Million Books?

The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie

How Did Female Explorers Defy Victorian Norms?

How to read music - Tim Hansen

How Did the Human Genome Project Change Genetics Research?

Capturing authentic narratives - Michele Weldon

When is anger justified? A philosophical inquiry - Delaney Thull

How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood

Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax

What Do Ancient Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Humans?

What Is a Coronavirus and How Does It Affect Humans?

How Does the Calvin Cycle Convert CO2 into Glucose?

Does time exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones

Cell vs. virus: A battle for health - Shannon Stiles

How Does the Adolescent Brain Develop Over Time?

Biodiesel: The afterlife of oil - Natascia Radice

What Makes Great Leaders Inspire Action?

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-François Bastin

Where did Russia come from? - Alex Gendler

What do babies think? - Alison Gopnik

Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington

The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler

The history of tea - Shunan Teng

What is the History of Electric Cars and Their Comeback?

The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

How Are US Supreme Court Justices Appointed?

Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra

How to spot a pyramid scheme - Stacie Bosley

The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' daughter - Stephen Esposito

Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran

What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson

One of history's most dangerous myths - Anneliese Mehnert

What causes kidney stones? - Arash Shadman

What Did Democracy Mean in Ancient Athens?

What Is the Wheel Method for Visualizing Rhythm?

How Do Lungs Work to Enable Breathing?

What Is Consciousness and How Do We Understand It?

The language of lying — Noah Zandan

What Are the Four Commandments for Future Cities?

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA - Andrea M. Henle

What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi

What Are Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion?

Why Is Antimatter Scarce in the Universe?

Digital humanitarianism - Paul Conneally

How sugar affects the brain - Nicole Avena

How to Write a Slam Poem in 5 Easy Steps

What Percentage of Your Brain Do You Actually Use?

Why Is It So Challenging to Cure HIV/AIDS?

Can you solve the airplane riddle? - Judd A. Schorr

What your designs say about you - Sebastian Deterding

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich

The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch

Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals? - Thomas Park

Why is Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" considered a masterpiece? - James Earle

Einstein's twin paradox explained - Amber Stuver

The infamous JoJo thought experiment - Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud

Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel

The history of keeping time - Karen Mensing

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox

How Close Are We to Eradicating HIV Forever?

The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry

How Do Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps Work?

The uncertain location of electrons - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

See Yemen through my eyes - Nadia Al-Sakkaf

What the biggest brain on Earth can do - David Gruber and Shane Gero

Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler

Would you pass the wallet test?

Can you solve the Mondrian squares riddle? - Gordon Hamilton

How close are we to uploading our minds? - Michael S.A. Graziano

How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng

What Is the Game Layer and How Will It Influence Us?

How Do Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers Work?

How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry - Skye C. Cleary

How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef

What Is the Turing Test and Can Computers Pass It?

What Is the Function of the Pancreas in Digestion and Blood Sugar?

Dance vs. PowerPoint, a modest proposal - John Bohannon

The law of conservation of mass - Todd Ramsey

What Will Earth Look Like in 2050 Due to Climate Change?

What Lesson Does the Monkey King Learn from the Buddha?

The importance of focus - Richard St. John

How do tornadoes form? - James Spann

This mushroom will kill you before you know what’s happening - Michael Beug

How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir

Why Do Eyewitnesses Make Mistakes in Criminal Cases?

Who Were Las Mariposas and Why Were They Assassinated?

8 traits of successful people - Richard St. John

The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks - Robin Bulleri

The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky

What Invisible Things Shape Our Universe?

What Is the Fijian Myth of the Greedy God Dakuwaqa?

My friend Richard Feynman - Leonard Susskind

When Does Adulthood Actually Begin According to Science?

The true cost of gold - Lyla Latif

The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky

The wacky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods

How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

Let's teach kids to code - Mitch Resnick

What Are the Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu?

How Can We Modify Chickens to Resemble Dinosaurs?

How did Hitler rise to power? - Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard

The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener

How Does Fermi Estimation Help with Large Numbers?

How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler

The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers - Lijun Zhang

What Was the Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Scientists still don't know the answer to this infamous question - Charles Wallace & Dan Kwartler

How movies teach manhood - Colin Stokes

What Caused the Extinction of Dodo Birds?

What Is True Success According to John Wooden?

How Do Concentration Gradients Drive Ocean Currents?

Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler

How Much Would It Cost to Buy the Sun?

Why does this flower smell like a dead body? - Daniel Nickrent

Dare to educate Afghan girls - Shabana Basij-Rasikh

On being a woman and a diplomat - Madeleine Albright

What Are the Hidden Meanings in Mozart's Magic Flute?

Why your best ideas usually start as bad ones | Think Like A Musician

How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene

Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler

The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar

What Causes Smog and How Does It Affect Health?

How Did Frances Kelsey Prevent the Thalidomide Crisis?

The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl

How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor

Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat

Taking imagination seriously - Janet Echelman

Why Is Repetition So Important in Music?

How Do Antidepressants Work to Treat Depression?

The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without) - Devin Shuman

Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins

How Can Rhetoric Help You Get What You Want?

3 grammar rules that you don’t need to follow anymore - Arika Okrent

What happens when the Arctic permafrost melts? - Brendan Rogers and Jessica Howard

A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra

Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed

What Causes Math Anxiety and How to Overcome It?

Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle? - Alex Gendler

Would You Weigh Less in a Descending Elevator?

Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism? Understanding the Debate

How Did Complex Cells Evolve Through Endosymbiosis?

What Were the Khmer Rouge Murders and Their Impact?

Where does gold come from? - David Lunney

What Does It Mean to Represent Teenage Girls in Media?

Can you solve the frog riddle? - Derek Abbott

5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos

Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce

Music as a language - Victor Wooten

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

How Can Parents Protect Children from Concussions?

If superpowers were real: Immortality - Joy Lin

Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Are Our Memories Real or Just Fabricated?

Why Do We Have Seasons on Earth?

This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding

What Does 'The Nutritionist' Poem by Andrea Gibson Mean?

Why Is Yawning Contagious? Exploring the Science

What Caused the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire?

What Is the Universe Expanding Into?

Can you solve the passcode riddle? - Ganesh Pai

The sharks that hunt in forests - Luka Seamus Wright

The most important century in human history

Can a Head Transplant Be Done Successfully?

The scientific origins of the Minotaur - Matt Kaplan

The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

What Happened During the Overthrow of Hawaii's Monarchy?

What Were the Causes and Consequences of Witch Hunts?

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

Who Was Benjamin Banneker and What Did He Achieve?

What Accident Led to the Discovery of Penicillin?

Can You Really Unboil an Egg? Here's How It's Done

History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler

How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

How Can Art Drive Cultural Change and Dialogue?

How Can Writing Your Story Change History?

How much do you really know about Ancient Rome? - Stephanie Honchell Smith

What Is the Mystery Behind the League of Red-Headed Men?

What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin

The five major world religions - John Bellaimey

How Do Salamanders Regenerate Their Limbs?

How Do Plants Keep Track of Time with Circadian Rhythms?

How we found the giant squid - Edith Widder

What Is Activation Energy and How Do Enzymes Reduce It?

How Did Agatha Christie Masterfully Construct Her Mysteries?

What Is Daily Life Like for a Cossack Warrior?

What Are the Biggest Mistakes in Mapmaking History?

How Did Napoleon Bonaparte Shape Modern Europe?

Why Did the Catholic Church Have Three Popes at Once?

Aphasia: The disorder that makes you lose your words - Susan Wortman-Jutt

What is earwax — and should you get rid of it? - Henry C. Ou

Could your brain repair itself? - Ralitsa Petrova

Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer

The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake - Shunan Teng

How to find the true face of Leonardo - Siegfried Woldhek

A brief history of alcohol - Rod Phillips

What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel

Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? - Carolyn Harris

If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

The business logic of sustainability - Ray Anderson

How to Manage Creative Pressure and Find Joy in Writing

Why do blood types matter? - Natalie S. Hodge

How Do Hormones Regulate Your Body's Functions?

Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis

Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived - Jessica Smith

What Is the Environmental Impact of Sneaker Production?

Can you solve the control room riddle? - Dennis Shasha

Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle? - Alex Gendler

How whales breathe, communicate ... and fart with their faces - Joy Reidenberg

What Causes Obesity and Why Is It a Global Epidemic?

Why do we have hair in such random places? - Nina G. Jablonski

How open data is changing international aid - Sanjay Pradhan

How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen

How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha

These companies with no CEO are thriving

What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell

Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?

What Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and How Does It Work?

What Is the Tragedy of the Commons and Its Impact?

What Are the Different Artistic Interpretations of Whitman's Poem?

What Is a Moral Operating System for Technology?

You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin

Claws vs. nails - Matthew Borths

How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage

What Are Misused Modifiers and How to Fix Them?

How Do Roller Coasters Impact Your Body?

Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams

The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier

The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? - Claudia Aguirre

Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie

Can you solve the temple riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha

How your digestive system works - Emma Bryce

How Was Brad Pitt Digitally De-Aged in Benjamin Button?

What Is Publication Bias in Medical Research?

Why we need to go back to Mars - Joel Levine

The “myth” of the boiling frog

Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

Your genes are not your fate - Dean Ornish

The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth

Can you solve the bridge riddle? - Alex Gendler

How Can Leaders Create Movements and Drive Change?

What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli

How to spot a fad diet - Mia Nacamulli

How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia

A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

Can you solve "Einstein’s Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren

Debunking the myths of OCD - Natascha M. Santos

How to Reconfigure a Factory to Create a Cure

Why do women have periods?

Zumbi: The last king of Palmares - Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes

How Do Filter Bubbles Impact Our Online Experience?

Japan's most famous ghost story - Jeffrey Angles

How do pregnancy tests work? - Tien Nguyen

Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer

How Did Movember Become a Global Men's Health Movement?

What Is the Carbon Cycle and Its Impact on Climate Change?

Why Read Edgar Allan Poe? Exploring His Literary Legacy

How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan

The myth of Hercules: 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler

How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

3 tips to boost your confidence - TED-Ed

Can you solve the pirate riddle? - Alex Gendler

The myth of Thor's journey to the land of giants - Scott A. Mellor

The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell

How Can Data Visualization Help Us Understand Information?

How Can Fungi Help Us Build Habitats in Space?

What Defines the Moment of Death?

What Was Daily Life Like for a Druid in Ancient Gaul?

Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall

Who Was the Most Successful Pirate in History?

Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle? - Yossi Elran

What Is Love and Why Is It So Hard to Define?