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Can this robot build an IKEA chair faster than you?

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Robots made from off-the-shelf hardware can put together a chair in just over 20 minutes Read more - https://scim.ag/2vmWUiB CREDITS --------------------- editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producers Sarah Crespi Nguyên Khôi Nguyên script Sa
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How Many Countries Are There?

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Discuss this video: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/1p2m6g/how_many_countries_are_there/ Help support videos like this: http://www.cgpgrey.com/subbable NEW UK-EXPLAINED POSTERS: http://goo.gl/Qw6UME Special thanks to: OilyRaven Chris Hokanson Wil
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Can you solve the seven planets riddle? - Edwin F. Meyer

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Solution to the bonus riddle mentioned at the end: https://brilliant.org/TedEdTitanic/ Your interstellar police squad has tracked a group of criminals to a cluster of seven planets. Now you mus
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Can you solve the alien probe riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Solution to Bonus Riddle: https://brilliant.org/TedEd3ColorCube/ Your team has developed a probe to study an alien monolith. It needs protective coatings — in red, purple or green — to cope wit
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What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? - Congrui Jin

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-if-cracks-in-concrete-could-fix-themselves-congrui-jin Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swat
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Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Signup to receive the bonus riddle's solution: https://brilliant.org/TedEdWerewolf/ You’re on the trail of a werewolf that’s been terrorizing your town. After months of detective work, you’ve n
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Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/did-the-amazons-really-exist-adrienne-mayor It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary. But curi
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Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Sign up for free to receive the solution to the bonus riddle! You’ve been chosen as a champion to represent your wizarding house in a deadly duel against two rival magic schools. Your opponents
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Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie

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Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-fahrenheit-451-iseult-gillespie Ray Bradbury’s novel imagines a world where books are banned- and posses
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Are we running out of clean water? - Balsher Singh Sidhu

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Find out how students can share their ideas as TED Talks here: http://bit.ly/2RCMFgM View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-we-running-out-of-clean-water-balsher-singh-sidhu Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the
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Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-incredible-evolution-of-fish-bodies-lauren-sallan In tropical seas, flying fish leap out of the water, gliding for up to 200 meters, before dipping
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How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas

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Check out the fascinating science behind the evolution of the turtle shell, over 260 million years in the making. --Modern turtle shells are almost as diverse as the turtles themselves. Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for gliding through the wate
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Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus

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Our universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip. -- We know about our universe’s past: the Big Bang theory predicts that all matter, time and space
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Why do hospitals have particle accelerators? - Pedro Brugarolas

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Investigate the science behind how doctors use radioactive drugs and PET scans to detect and diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer. -- Is there a way to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s before they advance too far? Doctors are using inj
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What makes volcanoes erupt? - Steven Anderson

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Dig into the science of how new volcanoes form, and what causes their unpredictable eruptions. --In February of 1942, Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasnt coming from the sky. The sour
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Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? - Julian Burschka

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Discover how scientists are analyzing compounds in the breath to create a versatile breathalyzer capable of detecting disease.--How is it that a breathalyzer can measure the alcohol content in someones blood, hours after they had their last drink, based o
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There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system - Augusto Carballido

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Is there extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Or are we alone? Take a journey to the ocean worlds on Jupiter and Saturn to investigate the possibility. --Deep in our solar system, a new era of exploration is unfolding. Beneath the thick ice of Europ
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Do politics make us irrational? - Jay Van Bavel

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Dig into the psychology of political partisanship, how to recognize it and what strategies can be used to combat it. --Can someones political identity actually affect their ability to process information? The answer lies in a cognitive phenomenon known as
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Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan

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Puzzle through a set of hypothetical health studies and headlines and see if you can spot whats misleading about the headline.--In medicine, theres often a disconnect between news headlines and the scientific research they cover. While headlines are desig
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How one woman put man on the moon - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton

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Learn how Margaret Hamilton and her team of engineers built the software for the Apollo 11 mission that landed mankind on the Moon. --The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts, mission control, software and hardware all working together as a sea
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The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker - Angel Chang

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Dive into the anatomy of a sneaker to better understand your clothings carbon footprint, and how to be a more responsible consumer. --Australians call them runners." The British know them as trainers. Americans refer to them as sneakers. Whatever you call
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Why should you read Midnights Children? - Iseult Gillespie

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Dive into Salman Rushdies masterpiece, Midnights Children, a work of magical realism that deals with Indias transition from British colonialism to independence.--It begins with a countdown. A woman goes into labor as the clock ticks towards midnight. Acro
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How do ventilators work? - Alex Gendler

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Take a journey into the respiratory system to see how ventilators bypass constricted airways and help damaged lungs send oxygen to the body. --In the 16th century, physician Andreas Vesalius described how a suffocating animal could be kept alive by insert
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The problem with the U.S. bail system - Camilo Ramirez

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Explore the U.S. bail systems reliance on cash bail and how it disproportionately hurts people in low-income communities and communities of color.--Since 2000, the annual number of people convicted of crimes in the United States has stayed steady, but the
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Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? - Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ -- It’s your first day at Magnificent Marigold’s Magical Macademy. But before you can learn your first spell you must get through the sorting ceremony. And the sorting hat has chose
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The history of the world according to corn - Chris A. Kniesly

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Trace the 9,000 year old history of the domestication of corn, or maize, and its effects on global agriculture. --Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production. And over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox

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Dig into the burden of proof fallacy, which assumes that something is true unless proven false and relies on arguments from ignorance.--Its 1950. Anti-communist sentiment in the United States is at an all-time high. Senator Joseph McCarthy claims he has a
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire - Dustin Tahmahkera

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Get to know the story of Quanah Parker, a Native American warrior and leader, and the last chief of the Comanche tribe. --Late one night in 1871, a group of riders descended on a sleeping army camp, stole about 70 horses, and disappeared. Led by a young c
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What causes an economic recession? - Richard Coffin

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How can factors like inflation, supply and demand, and interest rates trigger recessions? Learn the economic basics of modern markets.--For millennia, the people of Britain had been using bronze to make tools and jewelry, and as a currency for trade. But
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The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors - Iseult Gillespie

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Dive into the Irish myth of Tin B Cuailnge, where Queen Meadhbh of Connaught seeks to capture the fabled brown bull of Ulster. --C Chulainn, hero of Ulster, stood at the ford at Cooley, ready to face an entire army single handedly all for the sake of a si
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Are the illuminati real? - Chip Berlet

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Download a free audiobook version of "The Pillars of the Earth" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed Check out our full book recommendation: https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/illumin
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How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Mercier

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-can-you-change-someone-s-mind-spoiler-facts-don-t-work-so-well-hugo-mercier Why do arguments change people’s minds in some cases and backfire in oth
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Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

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Explore the environmental impact of three types of bags plastic, paper, and cloth to find out how theyre made, used and disposed of. --Youve filled up your cart and made it to the front of the grocery line when youre confronted with yet another choice: wh
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Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning

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Learn more by reading Douglas J. Emlen's "Animal Weapons": https://amzn.to/2I2SLSw View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-isn-t-the-world-covered-in-poop-eleanor-slade-and-paul-manning Check out our book rec page: http://bit.ly/2I3INQC Each day,
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