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Ted: Ted Ed: How to Use Experts and When Not To
In this video, Noreena Hertz argues that people rely too much on experts and advocates for the democratization of expertise. [18:19] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Radioactivity: Expect the Unexpected
Video explaining the process, risks, and benefits of radioactivity. [4:16] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Rethinking Thinking
A brief video that describes the ways that people gather and process information to draw conclusions and make decisions. [5:33] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Shashi Tharoor: Why Nations Should Pursue "Soft" Power
In this video, Shashi Tharoor argues that "soft" power-the influence of a nation's culture on the rest of the world-has played a large role in India's rapid rise to power in the twenty-first century. [17:54] Includes a brief quiz and a...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Steve Jobs at Stanford University Commencement 2005
Video of a speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University's 2005 commencement. [15:05] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Genius of Mendeleevs Periodic Table
Video explains why the periodic table devised by Dmitri Mendeleev has endured and how it has predicted the existence of elements. [4:25] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Did Trains Standardize Time in the United States?
This animated video explains the relationship between time zones and trains. If you live in the United States, you live in one of the standardized time zones. But these time zones have not always been around. In fact, it's a fairly...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Story Behind the Boston Tea Party
This short TED talk given by Ben Labaree gives the background of the Boston Tea Party and its eventual ramifications. [3:48]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Questions No One Knows the Answers To
Designed to drive curiosity, Chris Anderson shares his boyhood fixation with quirky questions that seem to have no answers. [2:11]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Anupam Mishra: The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting
Video lesson shares information about water harvesting structures used in India today. Anupam Mishra talks about the superiority of these structures built by the people of India's Golden Desert centuries ago compared to modern water...
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Ted: Ted Ed: High Tech Art (With a Sense of Humor)
Explore how art and technology come together to create masterpieces.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Beware of Nominalizations (Aka Zombie Nouns)
This video lesson focuses on removing nominalizations (long nouns made by adding suffixes to verbs, nouns, and adjectives) from your writing to make your sentences live instead of being a part of the living dead. Nominalizations impede...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Dance vs. Power Point, a Modest Proposal
Discover how dance can be used as a cross curricular way to express data.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Gerrymandering: How Drawing Jagged Lines Can Impact an Election
A brief video that explains the process of gerrymandering and describes how determining voting districts can influence the outcome of elections. [3:53] Followed by a quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen
Explore collected data in regards to life expectancies, family size, and finances through out the world and the various ways the data has been displayed.
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Big Is Infinity?
Explore the concept of infinity using the fundamentals of set theory in this animated video. [7:13]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea?
Explore the history of logarithms and sailing by watching this animated video. [4:19]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens if You Guess?
Explore probability using the fundamental counting principle by watching this animated video. [5:28]
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Ted: Ted Ed: A Clever Way to Estimate Enormous Numbers
Discover how powers of 10 can be used to estimate large numbers by watching this animated video. [4:15]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Capturing Authentic Narratives
Journalism can be much more than reporting. An authentic, human narrative touches audiences and keeps them reading. Learn how to shape a human-centered news story, and the importance of facts, context, and heart. Free registration is...
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Ted: Ted Ed: One Is One, or Is It?
This animated video explores the basic unit of one and its different meanings depending on place value. [3:55]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Peter Donnelly Shows How Stats Fool Juries
Peter Donnelly discusses probability theory and statistics in real-world scenarios in this video. [21:25]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Philip Zimbardo: The Demise of Guys
A brief video in which Philip Zimbardo examines the reasons why boys are struggling academically and socially. [4:47] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: 8 Traits of Successful People
Video describing 8 traits that successful people share. [7:17] Includes a short quiz following the video and a list of additional resources to explore.