TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
- Website
- http://ed.ted.com/
- Description
- TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed's growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-22 17:09
- last episode published
- 2020-08-09 23:07
- publication frequency
- 3.48 days
- Contributors
- TED Conferences LLC
- Owner
- TED
- Author
- contact@ted.com (TED)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 378
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education
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Episodes
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| 2020-08-09 | You're a biologist on a mission to keep the rare honeybee Apis Trifecta from going extinct. The last 60 bees of the species are in your terrarium. You've already constructed wire frames of the appropriate size and shape. Now you need to turn them into ... |
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| 2020-08-09 |
Ethical dilemma: The burger murders | George Siedel and Christine Ladwig You founded a company that manufactures meatless burgers that are sold in stores worldwide. But you've recently received awful news: three people in one city died after eating your burgers. A criminal has injected poison into your product! The deaths a... |
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| 2020-08-09 | From Ancient Greece to the 20th century, Aristotle, Freud, and numerous other scholars were all looking for the same thing: eel testicles. Freshwater eels could be found in rivers across Europe, but no one had ever seen them mate and no researcher coul... |
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| 2020-07-23 | The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches the signal? And ... |
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| 2020-07-21 |
The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece | Iseult Gillespie In Colchis, the hide of a mystical flying ram hangs from the tallest oak, guarded by a dragon who never sleeps. The only way Jason can pry it from King Aeetes' clutches and win back his promised throne is by facing three perilous tasks— without the hel... |
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| 2020-07-21 | One summer evening in 335 BCE, Alexander the Great was resting by the Danube River when a band of strangers approached his camp. Alexander had never seen anything like these tall, fierce-looking warriors with huge golden neck rings and colorful cloaks.... |
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| 2020-07-16 | Long jealous of his older brother Osiris, the god who ruled all of Egypt, the warrior god Set plotted to overthrow him. Hosting an extravagant party as a ruse, Set announced a game— whoever could fit perfectly in a wooden chest could have it as a gift.... |
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| 2020-07-14 | In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, while others came up with their own theories. Was it the lost lan... |
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| 2020-07-13 | In February of 1942, Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasn't coming from the sky. The source was a large, smoking crack emitting gas and ejecting rocks, and would come to be known as ... |
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| 2020-07-09 |
What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol | Rod Phillips On January 17, 1920, less than one hour after spirits had become illegal throughout the United States, armed men robbed a Chicago freight train and made off with thousands of dollars worth of whiskey. It was a first taste of the unintended consequences... |
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