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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.
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Ted: Ted Ed: How to Prove a Mathematical Theory
Explore mathematical proofs and how they are used in our everyday life with this animated video. [4:39]
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Ted: Ted Ed: Logarithms Explained
This animated video explores logarithms and explains how they are used in chemistry. Get the basics on these critical mathematical functions -- and discover why smart use of logarithms can determine whether your eyes turn red at the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The City of Walls: Constantinople
A brief video that describes the walls of Constantinople and explains their importance to world history. [4:17] The video is followed by a brief quiz and a list of additional resources.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The History of Keeping Time
A brief video that outlines the ways that people have kept time throughout history. [3:48] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Oddities of the First American Election
A brief video that tells the story of the first presidential election held in the United States in 1789. [4:07] The video is followed by a quiz and a list of additional resources.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Three Anti Social Skills to Improve Your Writing
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Music as a Language
Can learning to make music be as unstructured as learning to speak as a small child? Bassist Victor Wooton makes that argument in this TED Ed talk. Free registration is required to receive full access to the the complete lessons.
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Making of the American Constitution
A brief video providing background information on the Constitutional Convention. [3:58] The video is followed by a quiz and a list of additional resources.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do Competitors Open Their Stores Next to One Another?
Discover how game theory and Nash Equilibrium affect where retailers set up businesses to compete with each other. [4:07]
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Static Electricity
We've all had the experience: you're walking across a soft carpet, you reach for the doorknob and ZAP. But what causes this trademark jolt of static electricity? Anuradha Bhagwatsheds light on the phenomenon by examining the nature of...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Would Happen if You Didn't Sleep?
In the United States, it's estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived. This isn't just a minor inconvenience: staying awake can cause serious bodily harm. This video and guide shows...
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Mucus Keeps Us Healthy
Your body produces more than a liter of mucus every day, and when you're sick, it can be hard to miss. But what exactly is mucus? And what does it do, besides making you miserable? The following video and learning guide reveals the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do Buildings Fall in Earthquakes?
Explains what happens during an earthquake to cause buildings to fall down, and what features give buildings a better chance of surviving one. Includes a video, background information and links, a multiple-choice quiz, and a discussion...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cookies
Short video explains via basic chemistry principles the science of baking cookies. Stephanie Warren discusses how the dough spreads out, at what temperature we can kill salmonella, and why that intoxicating smell wafting from your oven...