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The magic of Fibonacci numbers | Arthur Benjamin
1,147 views / 0 likes - addedMath is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!) TEDTalks is a daily vide
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These Robots Come To The Rescue After A Disaster | Robin Murphy | TED Talks
1,123 views / 0 likes - addedWhen disaster strikes, who's first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through disaster scenes, helping firefighters and rescue workers save more lives safely — and help commun
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Chris Urmson: How A Driverless Car Sees The Road
969 views / 1 likes - addedStatistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He talks about where his program is right now, and shares fascinati
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The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves | Rajiv Maheswaran | TED Talks
899 views / 0 likes - addedBasketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with
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A Rare Interview With The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons | TED Talks
857 views / 0 likes - addedJim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED’s Ch
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Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | Raffaello D'Andrea
821 views / 0 likes - addedWhen you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his latest projects are pushing the boundarie
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John Graham-Cumming: The Greatest Machine That Never Was
785 views / 0 likes - addedTEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus
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Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang
732 views / 0 likes - addedHow do we find fulfillment in a world that's constantly changing? Raymond Tang struggled with this question until he came across the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Ching. In it, he found a passage comparing goodness to water, an idea he's now ap
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Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100 plus
726 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that kee
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This New Telescope Might Show Us The Beginning Of The Universe | Wendy Freedman | TED Talks
719 views / 0 likes - addedWhen and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman headed the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope, under constructio
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How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions | Jim Al-Khalili | TED Talks
714 views / 0 likes - addedHow does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called “spooky action at
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What soccer can teach us about freedom | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
710 views / 0 likes - added"Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his performances and an engagement initiative called "Moving and Passing," Joseph combines music, dance and socc
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Mick Mountz: What Happens Inside Those Massive Warehouses?
691 views / 0 likes - addedWe make millions of online purchases daily, but who (or what) actually puts our items into packages? In this talk, Mick Mountz weaves a fascinating, surprisingly robot-filled tale of what happens inside a warehouse. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of th
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Could We Cure HIV With Lasers? | Patience Mthunzi | TED Talks
618 views / 0 likes - addedSwallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to deliver drugs direc
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Henry Lin: What We Can Learn From Galaxies Far, Far Away
616 views / 1 likes - addedIn a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: distant galaxy clusters. By studying the properties of the universe's largest pieces, says the Intel Science Fair award winner, we can learn quite a lot about scientific
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The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Tom Zimmerman and Simone Bianco
609 views / 0 likes - added"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen -- without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engine
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Latif Nasser: The Amazing Story Of The Man Who Gave Us Modern Pain Relief
605 views / 0 likes - addedFor the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick — pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser tells the extraordinary story of wrestler and doctor John J. Bonica, who persuaded the medical profes
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The power of introverts | Susan Cain
583 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to t
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What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj
579 views / 0 likes - addedWhat if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forw
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Jonathan Eisen: Meet Your Microbes
565 views / 1 likes - addedOur bodies are covered in a sea of microbes — both the pathogens that make us sick and the "good" microbes, about which we know less, that might be keeping us healthy. At TEDMED, microbiologist Jonathan Eisen shares what we know, including some surprising
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A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley
561 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many
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The playful wonderland behind great inventions | Steven Johnson
539 views / 0 likes - addedNecessity is the mother of invention, right? Well, not always. Steven Johnson shows us how some of the most transformative ideas and technologies, like the computer, didn't emerge out of necessity at all but instead from the strange delight of play. Share
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The genius of the London Tube Map | Michael Bierut on "Small Thing Big Idea"
536 views / 0 likes - added"Small Thing Big Idea," an original TED series, celebrates the lasting genius of everyday objects so perfectly designed that they changed the world around them. Check out the whole series: https://go.ted.com/STBI
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Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
527 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within ou
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Seth Shostak: ET Is (probably) Out There — Get Ready
510 views / 0 likes - addedSETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely — and
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What I learned from going blind in space | Chris Hadfield
503 views / 0 likes - addedThere's an astronaut saying: In space, "there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse." So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid por
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How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder
494 views / 0 likes - addedAntarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors -- are enabling scientists to observe and understand changes beneath the continent's ice in unprecedented detail. Join ra
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The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander
493 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. TEDTalks is a daily vi
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Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz
467 views / 1 likes - addedIn this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions -- designed to chop vegetables, cut hair, apply lipstick and more -- rarely (if ever) succeed, and tha
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How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman
446 views / 0 likes - addedAt the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of that shadow could
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What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon | Minda Dentler
440 views / 0 likes - addedA 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with no breaks in between: the legendary Ironman triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, is a bucket list goal for champion athletes. But when Minda Dentler decided to take
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Homeopathy, quackery and fraud | James Randi
408 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what you do is real, and
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Optical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto
401 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.ted.com Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's
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How a typeface helped launch Apollo | Douglas Thomas
394 views / 0 likes - addedWhen humanity first landed on the moon in 1969, the typeface Futura was right there with them. In this fascinating history of typography, designer Douglas Thomas shares Futura's role in launching the Apollo 11 spacecraft -- and how it became one of the mo
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Bill Gates: The next outbreak? Were not ready
368 views / 0 likes - addedIn 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates sugg
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Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
339 views / 0 likes - addedWhat do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who, along with 25 of h
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How to control someone else's arm with your brain | Greg Gage
306 views / 0 likes - addedGreg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It’s not a parlor tric
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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee
291 views / 0 likes - addedWhen your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great con
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The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins
157 views / 0 likes - addedVisit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch
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The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
80 views / 0 likes - addedIn October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from the Hawaiian for "
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