Summaries of TED-Ed Videos 📚

What causes kidney stones? - Arash Shadman

What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell

The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie

What is chirality and how did it get in my molecules? - Michael Evans

The history of tea - Shunan Teng

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

The contributions of female explorers - Courtney Stephens

How does alcohol make you drunk? - Judy Grisel

How movies teach manhood - Colin Stokes

The game layer on top of the world - Seth Priebatsch

Distant time and the hint of a multiverse - Sean Carroll

Can you solve the river crossing riddle? - Lisa Winer

How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor

Stories: Legacies of who we are - Awele Makeba

Calculating The Odds of Intelligent Alien Life - Jill Tarter

You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin

Your genes are not your fate - Dean Ornish

The real tale of the Monkey King in Heaven - Ji Hao

The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

A map of the brain - Allan Jones

How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage

Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen

The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo

Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler

How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek

Let's teach kids to code - Mitch Resnick

Iceland's secret power - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

The real reason dodo birds went extinct - Leon Claessens

What Earth in 2125 could look like - Iseult Gillespie

Why are US cities still so segregated? - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? - Andrew Smith

The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history - Kayla Wolf

Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce

The tribes we lead - Seth Godin

The importance of focus - Richard St. John

Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker

How to stop torture - Karen Tse

The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth

A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland

How whales breathe, communicate ... and fart with their faces - Joy Reidenberg

The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers - Lijun Zhang

The moral roots of liberals and conservatives - Jonathan Haidt

Greeting the world in peace - Jackie Jenkins

Listening to shame - Brené Brown

Weaving narratives in museum galleries - Thomas P. Campbell

How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone

How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler

Ethical riddles in HIV research - Boghuma Kabisen Titanji

From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone - Regina Dugan

How art gives shape to cultural change - Thelma Golden

Why do your knuckles pop? - Eleanor Nelsen

How does artificial intelligence learn? - Briana Brownell

Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich

From enslavement to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus - Fiona Radford

The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human? - Alex Gendler

Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

What is depression? - Helen M. Farrell

What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

The case against "good" and "bad" - Marlee Neel

How cosmic rays help us understand the universe - Veronica Bindi

The myth of King Midas and his golden touch - Iseult Gillespie

The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax

A day in the life of a Cossack warrior - Alex Gendler

The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

Why do women have periods?

The tale of the doctor who defied Death - Iseult Gillespie

The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8

Would you weigh less in an elevator? - Carol Hedden

Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan

Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer

How close are we to eradicating HIV? - Philip A. Chan

The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

Symmetry, reality's riddle - Marcus du Sautoy

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney

What does it mean to be a refugee? - Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman

Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler

Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

The hidden treasures of Timbuktu - Elizabeth Cox

Why eyewitnesses get it wrong - Scott Fraser

What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-François Bastin

How we found the giant squid - Edith Widder

A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler

Your elusive creative genius - Elizabeth Gilbert

This mushroom will kill you before you know what’s happening - Michael Beug

How does the stock market work? - Oliver Elfenbaum

How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic

Claws vs. nails - Matthew Borths

The most important century in human history

How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

A brief history of melancholy - Courtney Stephens

A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe

Why do some people go bald? - Sarthak Sinha

Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? - Stephanie Honchell Smith

Zumbi: The last king of Palmares - Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes

The language of lying — Noah Zandan

Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Dan Finkel

Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays?

What you can do with an extra jaw - Darien Satterfield

How Do Pain Relievers Work? - George Zaidan

How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner

The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks - Robin Bulleri

How fast can a vaccine be made? - Dan Kwartler

The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinç

How the food you eat affects your gut - Shilpa Ravella

Ugly History: The Khmer Rouge murders - Timothy Williams

The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler

How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano

A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox

What is the universe expanding into? - Sajan Saini

How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef

Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel

The wacky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods

What did democracy really mean in Athens? - Melissa Schwartzberg

Faith versus tradition in Islam - Mustafa Akyol

Could your brain repair itself? - Ralitsa Petrova

The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky

Where does gold come from? - David Lunney

The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes

How to perform brain surgery without making a single cut - Hyunsoo Joshua No

Questions No One Knows the Answers to (Full Version)

The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless

We need to talk about an injustice - Bryan Stevenson

How a fly flies - Michael Dickinson

What’s that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson

The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie

Ethical dilemma: What makes life worth living? - Douglas MacLean

How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook

Hey science teachers -- make it fun - Tyler DeWitt

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? - Anees Bahji

The emergence of "4D printing" - Skylar Tibbits

What makes neon signs glow? A 360° animation - Michael Lipman

The secrets of the world’s most famous symphony - Hanako Sawada

The surprisingly long history of electric cars - Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal

Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel

How did Hitler rise to power? - Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard

Become a slam poet in five steps - Gayle Danley

How sugar affects the brain - Nicole Avena

Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright

The ballet that incited a riot - Iseult Gillespie

What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac

Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash

Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac

The uncertain location of electrons - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

How open data is changing international aid - Sanjay Pradhan

How inventions change history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis

Digital humanitarianism - Paul Conneally

The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree

How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood

Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend - Iseult Gillespie

The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest

If superpowers were real: Immortality - Joy Lin

What's invisible? More than you think - John Lloyd

Why are beavers obsessed with dams? - Glynnis Hood

The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra

Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler

This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding

A call to invention: DIY speaker edition - William Gurstelle

What is schizophrenia? - Anees Bahji

Making waves: The power of concentration gradients - Sasha Wright

The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle? - Dennis Shasha

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? - Dennis E. Shasha

How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan

How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery

Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death— and how to rescue them

What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare

The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara

Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci

What really happened to Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito

Why did Megalodon go extinct? - Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento

Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre

Measuring what makes life worthwhile - Chip Conley

The surprising effects of pregnancy

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox

The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

History vs. Genghis Khan - Alex Gendler

You can only save one— who do you choose? - Doug MacKay

The 3 A's of awesome - Neil Pasricha

What are warts — and how do you get rid of them? - Cella Wright

Where did Russia come from? - Alex Gendler

8 traits of successful people - Richard St. John

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

The science of macaroni salad: What's in a molecule? - Josh Kurz

Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun

What happens if you guess - Leigh Nataro

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler

Einstein's twin paradox explained - Amber Stuver

Eli the eel: A mysterious migration - James Prosek

The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew

What is earwax — and should you get rid of it? - Henry C. Ou

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples

How to make a mummy - Len Bloch

Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death - Iseult Gillespie

How do we create a better economy?

See Yemen through my eyes - Nadia Al-Sakkaf

What is love? - Brad Troeger

Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes

The myth of Thor's journey to the land of giants - Scott A. Mellor

What happened to antimatter? - Rolf Landua

Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington

Why do we have hair in such random places? - Nina G. Jablonski

Can you solve the pirate riddle? - Alex Gendler

How do tornadoes form? - James Spann

The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie

The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher

These companies with no CEO are thriving

How much would it cost to buy the Sun? - Cella Wright

"The Nutritionist" by Andrea Gibson

Why do we cry? The three types of tears - Alex Gendler

Gravity and the human body - Jay Buckey

Can you steal the most powerful wand in the wizarding world? - Dan Finkel

How much of what you see is a hallucination? - Elizabeth Cox

How we'll stop polio for good - Bruce Aylward

Every city needs healthy honey bees - Noah Wilson-Rich

How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng

The secrets of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - Joshua Borths

When is anger justified? A philosophical inquiry - Delaney Thull

The science behind the myth: Homer's "Odyssey" - Matt Kaplan

Detention or Eco Club: Choosing your future - Juan Martinez

How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz

How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo

What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox

Yes, tiny mites live on your face — but is that a bad thing? - M. Alejandra Perotti

Can you solve the airplane riddle? - Judd A. Schorr

We need a "moral operating system" - Damon Horowitz

The beautiful tricks of flowers - Jonathan Drori

How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Mercier

Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt

How bones make blood - Melody Smith

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

Pop an ollie and innovate! - Rodney Mullen

Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler

The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

Music and creativity in Ancient Greece - Tim Hansen

One of history's most dangerous myths - Anneliese Mehnert

The most successful pirate of all time - Dian Murray

History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte - Alex Gendler

The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua

The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider - Emily Zobel Marshall

Why should you read Flannery O’Connor? - Iseult Gillespie

Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield

What does the pancreas do? - Emma Bryce

How we think complex cells evolved - Adam Jacobson

Five fingers of evolution - Paul Andersen

If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin

The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha - Ji Hao

Can you solve "Einstein’s Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren

Are droids taking our jobs? - Andrew McAfee

What happens during a stroke? - Vaibhav Goswami

My friend Richard Feynman - Leonard Susskind

Can you change your sleep schedule?

Write your story, change history - Brad Meltzer

What triggers a chemical reaction? - Kareem Jarrah

Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed

Biodiesel: The afterlife of oil - Natascia Radice

How do your hormones work? - Emma Bryce

The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell

How close are we to uploading our minds? - Michael S.A. Graziano

A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry - Skye C. Cleary

Gaming to re-engage boys in learning - Ali Carr-Chellman

Can other animals understand death? - Barbara J. King

Can you transplant a head to another body? - Max G. Levy

Why do we hiccup? - John Cameron

What’s the point(e) of ballet? - Ming Luke

Can you solve the giant iron riddle? - Alex Gendler

How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist

How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian

Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

If you're an adult mayfly you'll probably die before the end of this video - Luke M. Jacobus

The carbon cycle - Nathaniel Manning

The sharks that hunt in forests - Luka Seamus Wright

Why should you read “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano

Explore cave paintings in this 360° animated cave - Iseult Gillespie

True success - John Wooden

How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw

Tales of passion - Isabel Allende

How batteries work - Adam Jacobson

Is marijuana bad for your brain? - Anees Bahji

The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli

Self-assembly: The power of organizing the unorganized - Skylar Tibbits

Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa

Can you solve the false positive riddle? - Alex Gendler

The strengths and weaknesses of acids and bases - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

The secret of the bat genome - Emma Teeling

Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle? - Alex Gendler

Do politics make us irrational? - Jay Van Bavel

What is obesity? - Mia Nacamulli

A brie(f) history of cheese - Paul Kindstedt

Corruption, wealth and beauty: The history of the Venetian gondola - Laura Morelli

Cell vs. virus: A battle for health - Shannon Stiles

History’s deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto

The business logic of sustainability - Ray Anderson

The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener

The greatest TED Talk ever sold - Morgan Spurlock

Debunking the myths of OCD - Natascha M. Santos

How to spot a fad diet - Mia Nacamulli

What happens when the Arctic permafrost melts? - Brendan Rogers and Jessica Howard

Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

How do we safely study living brains? - John Borghi and Elizabeth Waters

Visualizing the medical data explosion - Anders Ynnerman

How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac

Why do we see illusions? - Mark Changizi

What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel

Einstein's brilliant mistake: Entangled states - Chad Orzel

Can you solve the bridge riddle? - Alex Gendler

A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

Why do people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen

The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii - Sydney Iaukea

The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier

Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams

String theory - Brian Greene

Just add water: The garden insect that can turn into a plague - Jeffrey A. Lockwood

How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein

The sneakiest tricksters of the animal kingdom - Eldridge Adams

Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide - Ümit Kurt

Why were there three popes at the same time? - Joëlle Rollo-Koster

Inside the Egyptian revolution - Wael Ghonim

The secret formula to Agatha Christie's murder mysteries - Jamie Bernthal

The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar

What's so funny about mental illness? - Ruby Wax

Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle? - Dan Finkel

The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue

The wild sex lives of marine creatures - Luka Seamus Wright

Why do blood types matter? - Natalie S. Hodge

Let's use video to reinvent education - Salman Khan

Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts - Yoav Medan

Why is this painting so shocking? - Iseult Gillespie

The most dangerous elements on the periodic table - Shannon Odell

Revenge of the swamp beast - Iseult Gillespie

The “myth” of the boiling frog

Can you solve the frog riddle? - Derek Abbott

Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli

Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid and sandpaper - Mary Koga

A reality check on renewables - David MacKay

The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

Can a black hole be destroyed? - Fabio Pacucci

What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel

The 4 commandments of cities - Eduardo Paes

Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington

Inside a cartoonist's world - Liza Donnelly

A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - Philip Freeman

How do antidepressants work? - Neil R. Jeyasingam

Why does this flower smell like a dead body? - Daniel Nickrent

What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle? - Yossi Elran

Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair - Sue Austin

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim

The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake - Shunan Teng

Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived - Jessica Smith

A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore

First person vs. Second person vs. Third person - Rebekah Bergman

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal Gala

How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha

How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin

Toward a new understanding of mental illness - Thomas Insel

Freeing energy from the grid - Justin Hall-Tipping

A brief history of alcohol - Rod Phillips

Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern

The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell

The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu

Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis

How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen

The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch

Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy

How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir

What's an algorithm? - David J. Malan

Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran

At what moment are you dead? - Randall Hayes

A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney

Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom

What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole

Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle? - Alex Gendler

The scientific origins of the Minotaur - Matt Kaplan

How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire

The science of smog - Kim Preshoff

The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky

We can recycle plastic - Mike Biddle

What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu

The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie

Using unanswered questions to teach - John Gensic

Could we actually live on Mars? - Mari Foroutan

How does an air conditioner actually work? - Anna Rothschild

How could so many people support Hitler? - Joseph Lacey

Healthier men, one moustache at a time - Adam Garone

Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat

Behind the Great Firewall of China - Michael Anti

When are you actually an adult? - Shannon Odell

How Benjamin Button got his face - Ed Ulbrich

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? - Damion Searls

The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

The quest to understand consciousness - Antonio Damasio

A girl who demanded school - Kakenya Ntaiya

How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann

Just How Small is an Atom?

The myth of Pegasus and the chimera - Iseult Gillespie

The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl

Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off - Andres Lozano

What happens to our bodies after we die? - Farnaz Khatibi Jafari

History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler

Would you pass the wallet test?

The ingredient in almost everything you eat - Francesca Bot

How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's - Alanna Shaikh

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García

Capturing authentic narratives - Michele Weldon

How did ancient civilizations make ice cream? - Vivian Jiang

The battle of the Greek tragedies - Melanie Sirof

The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems - Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten

What Earth in 2050 could look like - Shannon Odell

The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi

Music as a language - Victor Wooten

Why are scientists shooting mushrooms into space? - Shannon Odell

How does math guide our ships at sea? - George Christoph

Can loud music damage your hearing? - Heather Malyuk

Science is for everyone, kids included - Beau Lotto and Amy O'Toole

The beginning of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie

The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie

How to topple a dictator - Srdja Popovic

The oddities of the first American election - Kenneth C. Davis

Protecting the brain against concussion - Kim Gorgens

Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

The secret sex lives of pandas - Lucy Cooke

The Norse myth that inspired “The Lord of the Rings” - Iseult Gillespie

Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? - Dan Finkel

Activation energy: Kickstarting chemical reactions - Vance Kite

Ethical dilemma: Whose life is more valuable? - Rebecca L. Walker

Why extremophiles bode well for life beyond Earth - Louisa Preston

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie

Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer

What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin

The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”? - Mark Robinson

The five major world religions - John Bellaimey

A day in the life of a teenager in medieval Baghdad - Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn

The rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire - Leonora Neville

How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls - Leymah Gbowee

Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay

Are there universal expressions of emotion? - Sophie Zadeh

Exponential growth: How folding paper can get you to the Moon

How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia

The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma

Why the metric system matters - Matt Anticole

Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan

On positive psychology - Martin Seligman

The true cost of gold - Lyla Latif

Why can't you divide by zero? - TED-Ed

Why we need to go back to Mars - Joel Levine

What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe - Ben Goldacre

On being a woman and a diplomat - Madeleine Albright

Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins

What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir

Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel

How do pregnancy tests work? - Tien Nguyen

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

Puke, poop and tiny cockroaches: How the leafcutter ant queen runs her farm - Charles Wallace

Why should you read "The Handmaid's Tale"? - Naomi R. Mercer

3 tips to boost your confidence - TED-Ed

How social media can make history - Clay Shirky

Overcoming obstacles - Steven Claunch

Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem - Kenny Coogan

What does appendix pain feel like? - David R. Flum

Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm

The myth of Hercules: 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler

How to see with sound - Jacques S. Abramowicz

What is the universe made of? - Dennis Wildfogel

How do animals regrow their limbs? And why can't humans do it? - Jessica Whited

What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen

How does your smartphone know your location? - Wilton L. Virgo

How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce

What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? - Rebecca Onie

Mao Zedong's infamous mango cult - Vivian Jiang

How to read music - Tim Hansen

A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security - James Stavridis

What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler

The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie

Does time exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones

The art of asking - Amanda Palmer

Which is stronger: Glue or tape? - Elizabeth Cox

Can you solve the penniless pilgrim riddle? - Daniel Finkel

The hidden power of smiling - Ron Gutman

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA - Andrea M. Henle

Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue

How many verb tenses are there in English? - Anna Ananichuk

The Fijian myth of the greedy god - Raiana McKinney and Esther Wozniak