2017-07-18

TED-Ed (videos of June 2017)

source: TED-Ed
5:05 How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-drugs-affect-the-brain-s...
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their liv...
4:50 Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney As the cargo director on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Buoyant, you’ve agreed to transport several tanks co...   5:07 Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-built-great-zimbabwe-and-wh...
Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a mediev...
4:56 How to squeeze electricity out of crystals - Ashwini Bharathula View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-squeeze-electricity-out-...
It might sound like science fiction, but if you press on a crystal of sugar, it will actua...
5:30 The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-philosophy-of-stoicism-mass... 
What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thrivin...
4:08 What can you learn from ancient skeletons? - Farnaz Khatibi View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-can-you-learn-from-ancient...
Ancient skeletons can tell us a great deal about the past, including the age, gender and even t...
5:10 The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-of-creative-constrain...
Imagine you were asked to invent something new. It could be whatever you want, made from anything yo...
6:27 Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-people-join-cults-janja-...
Today, there are thousands of cults around the world. Broadly speaking, a cult is a group or movement with a share...
5:04 The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-genius-of-marie-curie-shohi...
Marie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemist...
4:20 The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ferocious-predatory-dinosau...
In Cretaceous times (around 100 million years ago), North Africa was home to a huge...
5:31 Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-perpetual-motion-mach...
Perpetual motion machines — devices that can do work indefinitely without any external energ...   1:40 How the bendy straw was invented | Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-bendy-straw-was-invente...
Today, Americans use an estimated 500 million drinking straws every day. But where d...

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