TED Talks
Anna Piperal: What a digital government looks like
What if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is a reality: citizens conduct nearly all public services online, from starting a business to voting from their laptops, thanks to the nation's ambitious post-Soviet...
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Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state
Tour the deep dark world of the East German state security agency known as Stasi. Uniquely powerful at spying on its citizens, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Stasi masterminded a system of surveillance and psychological...
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Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust
How can we stop the spread of misleading, sometimes dangerous content while maintaining an internet with freedom of expression at its core? Misinformation expert Claire Wardle explores the new challenges of our polluted online...
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Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue soft power
India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the...
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Taylor series | Chapter 10, Essence of calculus
Taylor series are extremely useful in engineering and math, but what are they? This video shows why they're useful, and how to make sense of the formula.
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Neural Networks - Crash Course Statistics
Today we're going to talk big picture about what Neural Networks are and how they work. Neural Networks, which are computer models that act like neurons in the human brain, are really popular right now - they're being used in everything...
SciShow
Why Don't You Notice Obvious Mistakes in Movies?
Whether it's a car in the background of Braveheart or the inconsistent cliff in Jurassic Park, movies tend to have mistakes. Why don't we notice them more often?
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TED: Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci
As COVID-19 spread, BioNTech cofounders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci had one goal: to make a safe, effective vaccine faster than ever before. In this illuminating conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, the immunologists (and...
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Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know...
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Kwabena Boahen: A computer that works like the brain
Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer.
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TED: How (and why) Russia hacked the uS election | Laura Galante
Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence...
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TED: Let's bridge the digital divide! | Aleph Molinari
Five billion people can't use the internet. Aleph Molinari empowers digitally excluded people, by giving them access to computers and sharing the know-how to use them.
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TED: The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Welcome to the strange, deviously difficult and incredibly joyful world of puzzle hunts. Follow along as Alex...
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TED: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them | Carlos Bautista
Fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia has left the countryside riddled with land mines that maim and kill innocent people who happen across them. To help keep communities safe from harm, TED Resident Carlos Bautista is developing an...
SciShow
The Science of Dank Memes
Since you're on YouTube, you probably know what a meme is; but what is it really and how does it go viral?
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Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Every minute, 20 people are newly displaced by climate change, economic crisis and political instability, according to the UNHCR. How can we help them overcome the barriers to starting new lives? TED Resident Muhammed Idris is leading a...
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The Real Reason You’re Always Losing Your Keys
Do you often lose things like your keys? Psychology can explain not only why it happens, but also some ways to combat that.
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Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's...
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Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.
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Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)
From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look...
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TED: How free is our freedom of the press? | Trevor Timm
In the uS, the press has a right to publish secret information the public needs to know, protected by the First Amendment. Government surveillance has made it increasingly more dangerous for whistleblowers, the source of virtually every...
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TED: The simple genius of a good graphic | Tommy McCall
In a talk that's part history lesson, part love letter to graphics, information designer Tommy McCall traces the centuries-long evolution of charts and diagrams -- and shows how complex data can be sculpted into beautiful shapes....
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What Do We Know About T Cells and COVID-19 Immunity? | SciShow News
There's another theory about the Covid-19 pandemic going around, and while it is pretty cool, it's not exactly the solution some are suggesting it might be.