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

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Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Gods of Egypt Official Trailer #2 (2016) - Brenton Thwaites, Gerard Butler Movi
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Ancient Greeks - Real Faces

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This was the result of a lot of requests for bringing to life some ancient Greek faces especially from the golden age. Having some personal knowledge of ancient Greece, this could be the first part of an info, teach thingy about this subject or perhaps th
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Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue

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This BLUE my mind, I just had to share.Check out our podcast channel: https://youtube.com/sidenotepodcastJoin our mailing list: https://bit.ly/34fWU27Written by Mitchell MoffitEditing by Luka arlija and Mitchell MoffitFOLLOW US!AsapSCIENCETikTok: @AsapSCI
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The Persians&Greeks: Crash Course World History #5

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In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the grea
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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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Greek And Roman Statues Were Once Colorfully Painted | National Geographic

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Greek and Roman statues haven't always had that glazed look in their eyes—many were once painted. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and ad
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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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Your Online Life, Permanent As A Tattoo - Juan Enriquez

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What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we're only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight f
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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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Zap, Crackle And Pop: The Story Of Electricity

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Dr Marty Jopson leads us through the story of electricity in a show buzzing with demonstrations. Have we tamed electricity? From the Ancient Greeks to Faraday’s genius, this show puts the awesome back into electricity. Subscribe for regular science videos
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A Visual History of Sports

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The first recorded sport in history was spear throwing, which arose in 70,000 BC out of a need for ancient hunters to practice their skills. Bowling was the first known ball game, appearing in Egypt in 3,200 BC; later, there was Pitz, played by the ancien
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Dark matter: The matter we can't see - James Gillies

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/dark-matter-the-matter-we-can-t-see-james-gillies The Greeks had a simple and elegant formula for the universe: just earth, fire, wind, and water. Turns out there's more to it than that -- a lot more. Visible ma
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How Olive Oil Became a Cooking Staple

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It took a couple thousands of years, but olive oil has established itself as a culinary staple around the world. The Ancient Greeks in Crete were one of the first cultures to produce it, and today, Mediterranean countries dominate olive oil production. Th
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This Is Sparta: Fierce Warriors Of The Ancient World - Craig Zimmer

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/this-is-sparta-fierce-warriors-of-the-ancient-world-craig-zimmer In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered
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Some truly absurd ancient beliefs | BBC Ideas

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The Greeks and Romans gave us so much, but not everything they thought has stood the test of time. Classicist Daisy Dunn unpicks five nonsensical pearls of wisdom from the past. Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2F6ipav--------------------------------
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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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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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3 proofs that debunk flat-Earth theory | NASA's Michelle Thaller | Big Think

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3 proofs that debunk flat-Earth theory | NASA's Michelle Thaller | Big Think New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ------------------------------------------
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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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We Know More about the Romans than You Think

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99% of Roman literature has been lost, along with all but a tiny fraction of the artifacts the Romans made and used. But huge amounts of evidence still exist - and more is being discovered every year. Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon: ht
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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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How Do Sunflowers Face The Sun?

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Young sunflowers face the sun when it rises in the east and then track its motion in the sky throughout the day till it sets in the west in the evening. The process repeats the next day, as sunflowers return to their starting position, i.e. facing east. A
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Distances: Crash Course Astronomy #25

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How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going back to early astronomy. Ancient Greeks were able to find the size of the Earth, and from that the distance to and th
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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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Is There A Formula Behind Good Music?

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What if there was no such thing as bad sounding music? Maybe our opinion of music is conditioned by the sounds we're exposed to. Can Sound Kill You? - http://bit.ly/29LHdCy Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Why Not
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Top 10 Ancient Relics So Advanced They Shouldn't Exist

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Some ancient artifacts and relics are so advanced, we can't place them in history... they shouldn't exist! The origins and purpose of artifacts are still disputed. Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt https://
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What makes TB the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas

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Learn why tuberculosis, TB, is the worlds most infectious disease and how medical advancements are improving treatment. --In 2008, two 9,000-year old skeletons were found with their bones infected by an all too familiar bacterium. The ancient Greeks knew
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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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The Subatomic Challenge Behind Synthesizing the Color Blue

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Turns out, blue is not only a color that's rare in nature, but it's almost impossible to recreate. In order to do so, you need to dive into the physics of color. Can Some People See More Colors Than You?https://youtu.be/MdBTMGRHk2gRead More: Blue Through
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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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Introduction To Electric Charge

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A simple and easy introduction to electricity. It covers electric charge, the discovery of electricity, the nature of electricity and some of the more technical stuff for the classroom for you students. Hi! I'm Jade. I make physics videos that will make y
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Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--On Olympus, youve been waiting for an opportunity to bring the bloody Trojan War to its conclusion. The two sides have agreed to a brief truce, and when you consult the Fates, they advise: shou
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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 Big Song About a Small Thing (Atoms!)" | SUNG SCIENCE

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This is a big song about a small thing.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SUNG SCIENCE & SUNG HISTORY: http://bit.ly/20RsTAkGet the whole "Sung History" album on iTunes: http://apple.co/1mUatwcGet the whole "Sung History" album on CD Baby: http://bit.ly/1RwUv7V LYRICS T
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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 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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These Termites Turn Your House into a Palace of Poop | Deep Look

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Termites cause billions of dollars in damage annually – but they need help to do it. So they carry tiny organisms around with them in their gut. Together, termites and microorganisms can turn the wood in your house into a palace of poop. SUBSCRIBE to Deep

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