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Ted: Ted Ed: The Paradox of Value
Imagine you're on a game show and you can choose between two prizes: a diamond or a bottle of water. It's an easy choice - the diamonds are more valuable. But if given the same choice when you were dehydrated in the desert, after...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Can't We Just Print Money to Pay Off Debt?
WonderWhy takes a look at why you can't simply print money to pay off debt. And what has happened when countries have tried to! And for that matter, why a country having debt isn't necessarily a bad thing. [10:08]
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Coffee Got Quicker: Moments of Vision 2
For the 64% of Americans that drink coffee daily, an expedient cup is practically essential. But preparing coffee hasn't always been easy. In the second installment of our 'Moments of Vision' series, Jessica Oreck shares the ingenuity of...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How to Turn Protest Into Powerful Change
We live in an age of protest. On campuses, in public squares, on streets and social media, protestors around the world are challenging the status quo. But while protest is often necessary, is it sufficient? Eric Liu outlines three...
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Ted: Ted Ed: It's Not You. Claw Machines Are Rigged.
Vox lets us in on the complicated history of the ever-tempting claw machine, and explains what really happens to your allowance when you take on this arcade arch nemesis. [3:50]
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?
About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Forget Shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes
Downloadable, printable clothing may be coming to a closet near you. What started as designer Danit Peleg's fashion school project turned into a collection of 3D-printed designs that have the strength and flexibility for everyday wear....
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Ted: Ted Ed: History Through the Eyes of the Potato
Baked or fried, boiled or roasted, as chips or fries; at some point in your life you've probably eaten a potato. But potatoes have played a much more significant role in our history than just that of the dietary staple we have come to...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Exposing Anonymous Companies Could Cut Down on Crime
Companies are artificial entities created to allow real people to do business. But, unfortunately, there are some types of companies that aren't engaged in any business at all. Instead, these anonymous companies exist mainly to disguise...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Race to Sequence the Human Genome
In 1990, The Human Genome Project proposed to sequence the entire human genome over 15 years with $3 billion of public funds. Then, seven years before its scheduled completion, a private company called Celera announced that they could...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Where Does Gold Come From?
Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial? Instead of arising from our planet's rocky crust, it was actually cooked up in space and is present on Earth because of cataclysmic stellar explosions called supernovae. CERN Scientist David...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Famously Difficult Green Eyed Logic Puzzle?
One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How People Rationalize Fraud
Kelly Richmond Pope explains how the fraud triangle, can help us understand how seemingly good people can make unethical decisions in their daily lives. [4 min, 34 sec]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Mansa Musa, One of the Wealthiest People Who Ever Lived
Mansa Musa, the 14th century African king of the Mali Empire, is said to have amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived. Jessica Smith tells the story of how Mansa Musa literally put his empire...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Causes Economic Bubbles?
During the 1600's, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; some single bulbs even sold for ten times the yearly salary of a skilled craftsman. Suddenly, though, the demand completely plummeted, leaving the tulip market in a...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Gift Economy?
What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Time Value of Money
We've all heard the phrase "Time is money." But what do these two things actually have to do with one another? German Nande explains the math behind interest rates, revealing the equation that will allow you to calculate the future value...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Business Logic of Sustainability
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Walk From "No" to "Yes"
William Ury, author of "Getting to Yes," offers an elegant, simple way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations-from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. [18:45]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Actually, the World Isn't Flat
It may seem that we're living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We're not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data, he argues that there's a delta between perception and...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Fafsa (Financial Aid Application) in 7 Easy Steps
The first step in the financial aid process is the "Free Application for Federal Student Aid" or "FAFSA". The FAFSA can seem like a very confusing application to complete, but this video lesson will take you through everything you need...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How State Budgets Are Breaking Us Schools
America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening...
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Ted: Ted Ed: A New Ecosystem for Electric Cars
Forget about the hybrid auto- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. [18:03]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Simplify Legal Jargon
Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign- and plain English- to make legal paperwork intelligible to...