2017-05-16

TED-Ed (videos of April 2017)

source: TED-Ed
5:10 Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-tolstoy-s-w...
"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fa...
5:15 Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-sloths-so-slow-kenny-co...
Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies jus...
5:36 The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evolution-of-animal-genital...
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. But why is this so? And what’s the...
5:06 How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-dracula-become-the-worl...
Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the...
5:06 Secrets of the X chromosome - Robin Ball View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/secrets-of-the-x-chromosome-rob...
The sequence of DNA that we inherit from our parents encodes directions for making our cells and giving us specif...
4:50 The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-three-different-ways-mammal...
All mammals share certain characteristics, like warm blood and backbones. But despite their si...
5:10 Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/oxygen-s-surprisingly-complex-j...
Oxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role...
4:44 Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-itch-emma-bryce
The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We’ve all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient it...
4:47 How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-focus-groups-work-hector...
Focus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their products and ideas will b...
1:57 How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blue-jeans-were-invented-mo...
Today, 96% of American consumers own at least one pair of jeans. But where did these dur...
4:57 Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-animals-have-such-differ...
For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on ...
5:13 Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-virus-riddle-...
Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After ...

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