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Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-three-gods-riddle-alex-gendler You and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician
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The twins who tricked the Maya gods of death - Ilan Stavans

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Dive into the Maya myth of twins Junajpu and Ixbalanke as they descend into the underworld to play the gods in a ballgame.--One day, twin brothers Junajpu and Ixbalanke discovered their fathers hidden ballgame equipment and began to play. Hearing their vi
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Creating Guatemala’s Food of the Gods

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Of all its delicious offerings, chocolate is Guatemala’s most divine treat. The ancient Mayan tradition of chocolate making is a 2,500-year-old cultural legacy kept alive by dedicated farmers, roasters and chocolatiers. Hang on to your sweet tooth as we f
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The myth of the Sampo an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Hrmvaara

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Gods Of Egypt Official Trailer #2 (2016) - Brenton Thwaites, Gerard Butler Movie HD

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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

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Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City Read more - https://scim.ag/2K2uixU CREDITS -------------------- editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producers Sarah Crespi Nguyên Khôi Nguyên script Ch
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Egyptian Mummified Cats?! | Maddie Moate

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Lets take a trip back to Ancient Egypt and discover what might be lurking in the crypts ! For this video I was lucky to join forces with the Manchester Science Festival and the Manchester Museum to visit one of their many amazing exhibitions on offer, "Gi
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Tantalus Mackerel

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website: http://www.chrisfitchsculpture.com The story of Tantalus has been, since its Greek origins, a consistently applicable metaphor for the human condition. Tantalus angered the gods by trying to feed them the flesh of his own son, passed off as ambro
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Jellyfish Ghast - Candy Mesa Minecraft Mermaids

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Today on #MermaidMonday, Amy and I experience a weird glitch in the nether. Could this be the Mermaid Gods? Amylee: http://www.youtube.com/amyleethirty3
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The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-myth-of-prometheus-iseult-gillespie Before the creation of humanity, the Greek gods won a great battle against a race of giants called the Titans. M
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The Worst Thing I've Ever Done In Minecraft - Far Lands (Ep.33)

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Forgive me, Minecraft gods! Download the scorecard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Do9vNEQavJRTV2LTBpQjR4bkk/view Watch all 100+ episodes of Mineclash: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc5xWgIisSO2pv4PJCei9az7p4fp8ArLh
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How I Got Cast In A Major Hollywood Movie

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#WBPartner This is how I got my role alongside Zachary Levi in SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods. Let me know if you spot me in the movie #ShazamMovie in theaters March 17. Get tickets now: https://www.dc.com/shazamWatch How I pulled off my 10 craziest stunts here
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Why are sharks so awesome?

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-sharks-so-awesome-tierney-thys Sharks have been celebrated as powerful gods by some native cultures. And today, sharks are recognized as apex predators of the world’s ocean. What is it that makes these f
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Making Sense Of Irrational Numbers

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/making-sense-of-irrational-numbers-ganesh-pai Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or dis
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Consecutive Coin Flips - Numberphile

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Thanks http://www.audible.com/numberphile (recommendations below) This video features Dr James Grime. More on coin flips: https://youtu.be/AYnJv68T3MM See the prime number video referenced at: https://youtu.be/YVvfY_lFUZ8 NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.n
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President Biden & Jay Leno Drive Electrified 1978 Ford F100 | CNBC Prime

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President Joe Biden returns to Jay Leno’s Garage to discuss the future of electric vehicles in America while behind the wheel of an electrified 1978 Ford F100. Watch the full episode on Wednesday, October 26 at 10pm ET on CNBC. » Subscribe to
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Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/--Ragnarok: The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future. The gods were winning until the great serpent Jrmungandr emerged. It swallowed Valhalla and
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Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202

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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing th
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Ancient Egypt: Crash Course World History #4

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In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile with John Green. Crash Course World History is now av
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The myth of Loki and the master builder - Alex Gendler

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Dive into the Norse myth of how Loki tricked a stranger into building the great wall of Asgard to keep the realm safe from giants. --Asgard, a realm of wonders, was where the Norse Gods made their home. There Odins great hall of Valhalla towered above the
A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian priest

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Watch this video to discover what tasks ancient Egyptian priests completed in the temple. Ancient Egyptian priests were the only people (besides the king) who could enter the sacred inner areas of the temples that acted as homes for the gods. This short a
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Welcome to the Festival of Glowing Giants

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Asako Mitamura never set out to break any barriers. She simply grew up wanting to become a master nebuta maker, just like her father before her. She spent years perfecting the art of building nebuta, giant paper floats built to take on the shape of warrio
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How to Eat Like a Hindu God

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The Ganesha Temple in Queens, New York, has been a cultural hub for Hindus in the United States since the 1970s. But this temple isn't just dedicated to religious practice. The canteen in the temple's basement is a bonafide restaurant, serving up more tha
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Chocolate: A short but sweet history | Episode 3 | BBC Ideas

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Chocolate, food of the gods! Its history goes back thousands of years so heres a quick look at how we came to eat chocolate in the first place - where its originally from (Central and South America), when it was invented, and how its made. Is chocolate an
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Upgrade Your Boxed Mac & Cheese

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What if you took a box of mac and cheese and used the orange powder to make pesto? Ponder this mystery no more, because we here at MUNCHIES tried it! (And it works!) Cara Nicoletti takes a standard boxed mac and cheese and quickly turns it into a pesto ma
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AGE of UNIVERSE TIME in perspective

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Time can be difficult to understand, in this video we try to get an idea of its scale. We will simulate that one second is equal to 1 mm3. The rest of the time scales are beyond comprehension.MY WEBSITESPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/metaballstudiosInst
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Cross a Canyon on Peru’s Last Handwoven Bridge

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In the region of Cusco in Peru, a unique centuries-old Incan tradition continues to this day. Each year during the second week of June, hundreds of locals gather to hand build a new Q’eswachaka bridge over the Apurímac River. The 124-foot-long rope bridge
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This Spanish Festival Is a Funeral For a Fish

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Did you know that every year around Easter, the Spanish city Murcia holds a funeral for a fish? Entierro de la Sardina, otherwise known as the burial of the sardine, is a festival like no other. During this jam-packed weekend of parties and performances,
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10 Bizarre Animals Living Inside Volcanoes

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Volcanoes may be dangerous but certain animals have been known to plant roots in Volcanoes. So without further ado, here are the top ten animals living inside volcanoes. Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt ht
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The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie

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Find out how students can share their ideas as TED Talks here: http://bit.ly/2zpAQUc View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-myth-of-pandora-s-box-iseult-gillespie Pandora was the first mortal woman, breathed into being by Hephaestus, god of fire
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The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

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Download a free audiobook version of "Man's Search for Meaning" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://adbl.co/2z7JGWx Check out our full book recommendation: https://bit.ly/2JYUn1y Sisyphus was both a clever ruler who made his city prosperous, a
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How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor

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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/how-thor-got-his-hammer-scott-a-mellor Loki the mischief-maker, writhes in Thor’s iron grip. The previous night, he’d snuck
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The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-myth-of-arachne-and-athena-iseult-gillespie From sailors who were turned into pigs, nymphs that sprouted into trees, and a gaze that converted the b
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Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunder | Official Teaser

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Here it is. + Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunder arrives only in theaters July 8. The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic
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The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison And Humans

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In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees face are truly horrifying – some are a direct c
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The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god - Kay Almere Read

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Discover the myth of how the weak and pimply Aztec god Nanahuatl sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun and created a new world. -- Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world. There had already
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What Is Myth? Crash Course Mythology #1

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Welcome to Crash Course World Mythology, our latest adventure (and this series may be literally adventurous) in education. Over the next 40 episodes or so, we and Mike Rugnetta are going to learn about the world by looking at the foundational stories of a
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Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”? - Mark Robinson

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-herodotus-called-the-father-of-history-mark-robinson 2,500 years ago, the writing of history as we know it didn’t exist. The past was recorded as
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The Taino myth of the cursed creator - Bill Keegan

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Dive into the Taino myth of the sea, and watch as Deminan and his brothers accidentally create a new world from a giant gourd. --Before the world of humans began, there was the world of the gods. Four brothers wandered this celestial realm. One day, the b
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A Short History Of Humans And Germs: Humans Get A Clue | Goats & Soda | NPR

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For most of human history, we had a lot of bad ideas about how we were getting sick: angry gods, misaligned planets, stinky fumes. We also had plenty of bad ideas about how to prevent it, like bloodletting, large holes in the head and drinking arsenic. Th
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This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding

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Explore the technique known as the Socratic Method, which uses questions to examine a persons values, principles, and beliefs. --Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many believed he was an enemy of the sta
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The Fijian myth of the greedy god - Raiana McKinney and Esther Wozniak

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Dig into the Fijian myth of Dakuwaqa, the shape-shifting shark god who is determined to take over all of Fiji's islands.--Long ago, the ancestral gods of Fiji settled on the Pacific archipelago. They eventually metamorphosed into various forms, with the g
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The myth of Zeus' test - Iseult Gillespie

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Dig into the myth of Baucis and Philemon, a couple who unknowingly showed the gods hospitality after their neighbors refused.--It was dark when two mysterious, shrouded figures appeared in a hillside village. The strangers knocked on every door in town, a
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Cyclopia: A Rare Birth Defect That Could Help Cure Cancer

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With a greater understanding of biological mechanisms, humans may be able to take a devastating birth defect and turn it into a treatment for cancer. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymo
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The Greek myth of Demeter's revenge - Iseult Gillespie

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Dig into the Greek myth of Mestra and her father King Erysichthon, who angered the gods and was cursed with insatiable hunger.--Mestra, princess of Thessaly, was far from home. She had watched her father, King Erysichthon, plunge into a ruin of his own ma
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The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history - Kayla Wolf

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Travel through the history of mapmaking and discover what big mistakes cartographers made about the worlds geography.--For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in
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The Last Human A Glimpse Into The Far Future

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Because of the potential size of the future, the most important thing about our actions today might be their impact on future generations. This simple-sounding idea has some surprising moral implications: https://80000hours.org/kurzgesagt-last-humanSource
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We WILL Fix Climate Change!

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Visit https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-can-we-fix-climate/Our home is burning
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The Fascinating Life of Deep Sea Cold Seeps

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Cold Seeps in the Deep Sea Explained. The deep sea floor is a barren realm. Life on the abyssal plain exists in a constant struggle to survive against the extreme pressure, darkness, and the scraps of food that drift down from shallower waters. But in som
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An Axolotl Is An Incredible Creature That Can Regenerate Its Brain And Heart

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*Editor's note: Dr. James Godwin is now a research scientist at MDI Biological Laboratory.* The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to th
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What Happens During a Solar Eclipse? Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017

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North America is preparing itself for the August Eclipse, so we thought it would be a good time to explain how eclipses work and what’s going on as the Moon briefly destroys the Sun. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: htt

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