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TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How could so many people support Hitler? | Joseph Lacey

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Philosopher Hannah Arendt was a German Jew who dedicated herself to understanding how the Nazi regime came to power, and more specifically, how it inspired so many atrocities. She believed the true conditions behind the unprecedented...
Instructional Video5:04
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: This person isn't actually screaming | Noah Charney

Pre-K - Higher Ed
An undulating sky melds into the landscape, two silhouettes move along a balustraded walkway, and a ghostly figure’s features extend in agony. Since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch created "The Scream" in 1893, it’s become one of the...
Instructional Video5:01
TED Talks

TED: 3 steps to getting what you want in a negotiation | Ruchi Sinha

12th - Higher Ed
We negotiate all the time at work -- for raises, promotions, time off -- and we usually go into it like it's a battle. But it's not about dominating, says organizational psychologist Ruchi Sinha. It's about crafting a relationship,...
Instructional Video5:49
TED Talks

TED: How to reduce bias in your workplace | Kim Scott and Trier Bryant

12th - Higher Ed
We all have bias -- especially the unconscious kind -- and it's preventing us from doing our best work. Gone unchecked, bias can make employees feel resentful, frustrated and silenced, and it can even lead to outright discrimination and...
Instructional Video11:57
TED Talks

TED: Why you should talk about your anxiety at work | Adam Whybrew

12th - Higher Ed
We can't get rid of anxiety and depression, so we might as well talk about it, says depression truth-teller Adam Whybrew. Sharing his own experience with mental illness, he reveals the surprising benefits of opening up about stress at...
Instructional Video12:58
TED Talks

TED: Why the world needs more builders — and less "us vs. them" | Daniel Lubetzky

12th - Higher Ed
We're programmed to think every issue is binary: "us vs. them." But Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Snacks, says the real enemy isn't a person but a mindset. He introduces a new initiative that aims to bring together "builders" from...
Instructional Video13:05
TED Talks

TED: Welcome to the world of audio computers | Jason Rugolo

12th - Higher Ed
In an exclusive preview of unreleased technology, designer and inventor Jason Rugolo unveils an entirely new kind of computer you can talk to like a friend. This "audio computer" — which can augment the sounds around you, translate...
Instructional Video9:45
TED Talks

TED: The difference between false empathy and true support | Chezare A. Warren

12th - Higher Ed
There's a right way and wrong way to do empathy, says author and scholar Chezare A. Warren. So how do we get it right? He unpacks the source of false empathy and explains the key shift in perspective we need to build healthy...
Instructional Video5:36
TED Talks

TED: How to be a team player — without burning out | Rob Cross

12th - Higher Ed
Collaboration in the workplace is more important than ever -- but it's making us less productive in some ways. Here's what collaboration pioneer Rob Cross says is driving us to take on way too much -- and how we can reclaim our time and...
Instructional Video4:12
TED Talks

TED: 4 ways to make hybrid work better for everyone | Tsedal Neeley

12th - Higher Ed
How can we rethink hybrid work so it brings out the best in both in-person and distributed employees? Leadership expert Tsedal Neeley shares the changes that we need to make in order to create workplaces that actually work -- no matter...
Instructional Video8:07
SciShow

How Do We Figure Out The Sex ... Of A Fossil?

12th - Higher Ed
We know a lot about fossils, but there's one thing about all those long-dead organisms that's hard to figure out -- their sex. So let's talk about the ways we can try to determine whether those T. rex bones came from a male or a...
Instructional Video9:47
SciShow

Crying is Extremely Weird

12th - Higher Ed
If you want to learn more about how our brain reacts to other people’s emotions, start your college journey with Study Hall! Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Go
Instructional Video11:10
SciShow

One Weird Reason People Suck at Parking

12th - Higher Ed
Human territoriality results in some pretty ridiculous behaviors. And luckily, scientists have studied it in all kinds of situations.
Instructional Video6:39
SciShow

The Rare Disorder That Turns Everyone Else Into Demons

12th - Higher Ed
Prosopometamorphopsia is an extremely rare disorder of facial processing that makes other people's faces look demonic or seem to melt. But in the process of treating these people, we can also learn how our brain understands what a face...
Instructional Video12:50
TED Talks

TED: Why are women still taken less seriously than men? | Mary Ann Sieghart

12th - Higher Ed
Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously...
Instructional Video10:56
TED Talks

TED: Is alternative meat the recipe for a healthier planet? | Tao Zhang

12th - Higher Ed
A Chinese saying goes, "There's no pleasure in eating without meat." And the data backs that up: every year, China consumes 26 percent of the world's meat and 45 percent of its seafood — numbers that could grow alongside rising incomes....
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow

The Infamous, Brain-Bending Birthday Problem

12th - Higher Ed
There's a rather famous problem in math of probability called the Birthday Paradox. Let's get into how it works, and how creative uses of this hypothetical problem have real-world applications!
Instructional Video10:21
TED Talks

TED: The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — a home for lost stories | Tavares Strachan

12th - Higher Ed
Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back to his birthplace in the Bahamas or a gold, Egyptian-inspired sculpture he launched...
Instructional Video12:56
TED Talks

TED: Why helping people makes you happy | Asha Curran

12th - Higher Ed
We underestimate the power of our own generous actions, says Asha Curran, CEO of the global generosity movement GivingTuesday. Sharing stories of people making a difference through simple acts of kindness, she shows how generosity, even...
Instructional Video18:11
TED Talks

TED: The power of unconventional thinking | David McWilliams

12th - Higher Ed
From World War I to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don't always see the future as clearly as they think they do, says economist David McWilliams. Using the words of W.B. Yeats, McWilliams makes the...
Instructional Video3:41
TED Talks

TED: Why science needs to get behind natural medicine | Jeff Chen

12th - Higher Ed
Pharmaceutical companies often only patent drugs they can monetize, creating synthetic versions of remedies already available in nature. In this quick talk, physician and entrepreneur Jeff Chen offers a path to affordable, effective...
Instructional Video10:01
TED Talks

TED: The tech we need to fight workplace ageism | Piyachart Phiromswad

12th - Higher Ed
From exoskeletons and robotic arms to the mass adoption of remote work, economist Piyachart Phiromswad explores what seniors need to overcome the physical, mental and societal barriers to employment, a necessary shift in our rapidly...
Instructional Video6:52
SciShow

The Ice Bucket Challenge Actually Worked

12th - Higher Ed
The Ice Bucket Challenge raised millions of dollars for research into treatments for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Where did that money go? Into characterizing new genes that we may be able to target with chemotherapy drugs like...
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

Atlas: The Little Rocket That Still Can

12th - Higher Ed
In 1962, John Glenn went into orbit on an Atlas rocket, and thus began a family of rockets that lasted for 60 years!