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How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill | DIY Neuroscience, a TED series
Ted Talk: Dragonflies can catch prey with near perfect accuracy, the best among all predators. But how does something with so few neurons a…
Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
Ted Talk: A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic licen…
Rory Stewart: Why democracy matters
Ted Talk: The public is losing faith in democracy, says British MP Rory Stewart. Iraq and Afghanistan's new democracies are deeply corrupt;…
Louise Leakey: Digging for humanity's origins
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs …
Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth
Ted Talk: Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public sc…
The passing of time, caught in a single photo | Stephen Wilkes
Ted Talk: Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-…
How community-led conservation can save wildlife | Moreangels Mbizah
Ted Talk: Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, subtitles, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more.…
What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? | Kristin Poinar
Ted Talk: The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious -- and melting. Using advanced technology, scientists are revealing its secrets fo…
How video games turn players into storytellers | David Cage
Ted Talk: Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game d…
How the hyperlink changed everything | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series
Ted Talk: The hyperlink is the LEGO block of the internet. Here's the bizarre history of how it came to be, as told by user experience mast…
The Housing First approach to homelessness | Lloyd Pendleton
Ted Talk: What do you think would happen if you invited an individual with mental health issues who had been homeless for many years to mov…
Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
Ted Talk: Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it's inedible -- but because it doesn't look appealing. Tristr…
Could We Cure HIV with Lasers? | Patience Mthunzi | TED Talks
Ted Talk: Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially b…
What you need to know about CRISPR | Ellen Jorgensen
Ted Talk: Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genom…
A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD | Rebecca Brachman
Ted Talk: Current treatments for depression and PTSD only suppress symptoms, if they work at all. What if we could prevent these diseases f…