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TED Talks Education

TED Talks Education

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How to design a school for the future | Punya Mishra

Published: June 2, 2023, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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The rise of the "trauma essay" in college applications | Tina Yong

Published: April 7, 2023, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds

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How video games can level up the way you learn | Kris Alexander

Published: March 9, 2023, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds

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Reviving the legacy of the Black teaching tradition | Sharif El-Mekki

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph

Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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The board game getting kids excited about school | Joel Baraka

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds

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How play helps a kid's brain grow | Jesse Ilhardt

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 9:47 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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The most powerful yet overlooked resource in schools | Heejae Lim

Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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How schools can nurture every student's genius | Trish Millines Dziko

Published: July 21, 2022, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds

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The mission to safeguard Black history in the US | Julieanna L. Richardson

Published: June 17, 2022, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds

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What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs | Katherine Maher

Published: May 25, 2022, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 58 seconds

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My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi

Published: May 10, 2022, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children | Zoya Lytvyn

Published: April 14, 2022, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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The creativity and community behind fanfiction | Cecilia Aragon

Published: March 9, 2022, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds

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Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla

Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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3 ways to lower the barriers to higher education | Adrian K. Haugabrook

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds

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The dream of educating Afghan girls lives on | Shabana Basij-Rasikh

Published: Dec. 3, 2021, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 49 seconds

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A program to empower Black teachers in the US | Larry Irvin

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare | Chris Bennett

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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The small business hustle | The Hartford

Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds

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3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress | Candis Watts Smith

Published: July 16, 2021, 3:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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How dirt bikes and STEM ignite ingenuity in Baltimore | Brittany Young

Published: May 24, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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Women and girls, you are part of the climate solution | Rumaitha Al Busaidi

Published: May 3, 2021, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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The exploitation of US college athletes | Tim Nevius

Published: April 5, 2021, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Online learning could change academia -- for good | Tyler Dewitt

Published: March 18, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 56 seconds

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The paradigm shift toward equitable tech access across Africa | 'Gbenga Sesan

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 3:48 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Technology can't fix inequality -- but training and opportunities could | 'Gbenga Sesan

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 3:48 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education | Nora Flanagan

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 47 seconds

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Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it | Sophie Howe

Published: Oct. 10, 2020, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Why we must confront the painful parts of US history | Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds

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Activism, changemakers and hope for the future | Malala Yousafzai

Published: July 10, 2020, 8:12 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 36 seconds

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A path to higher education and employment for refugees | Chrystina Russell

Published: June 19, 2020, 12:33 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds

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Why students should have mental health days | Hailey Hardcastle

Published: May 11, 2020, 7:56 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds

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How teachers can help students navigate trauma | Lisa Godwin

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 8:46 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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How virtual reality turns students into scientists | Jessica Ochoa Hendrix

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 8:48 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it | Anindya Kundu

Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 59 seconds

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How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds

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A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India | Safeena Husain

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 2:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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What reading slowly taught me about writing | Jacqueline Woodson

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 2:28 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds

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A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten | Claudia Miner

Published: July 17, 2019, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | Ethan Lindenberger

Published: June 25, 2019, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer

Published: June 24, 2019, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds

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The healing power of reading | Michelle Kuo

Published: June 6, 2019, 2:56 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds

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How hip-hop helps us understand science | Danielle N. Lee

Published: April 19, 2019, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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Empower a girl, transform a community | Kakenya Ntaiya

Published: April 15, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds

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Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school | Olympia Della Flora

Published: March 21, 2019, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds

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An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math | Eugenia Cheng

Published: March 8, 2019, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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How education helped me rewrite my life | Ashweetha Shetty

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics | Liz Kleinrock

Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 1 second

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Why Black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that | Monique W. Morris

Published: Jan. 15, 2019, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds

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A librarian's case against overdue book fines | Dawn Wacek

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic | Ghada Wali

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

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How teachers can help kids find their political voices | Sydney Chaffee

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace | Kola Masha

Published: July 10, 2018, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds

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A crash course in organic chemistry | Jakob Magolan

Published: July 6, 2018, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds

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Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Published: June 21, 2018, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

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Comics belong in the classroom | Gene Luen Yang

Published: May 25, 2018, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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To learn is to be free | Shameem Akhtar

Published: March 1, 2018, 8:59 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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This company pays kids to do their math homework | Mohamad Jebara

Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 3:46 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds

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How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu

Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 9:06 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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What we don't teach kids about sex | Sue Jaye Johnson

Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 8:55 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds

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The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it | Amel Karboul

Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 9 seconds

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The boost students need to overcome obstacles | Anindya Kundu

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again | Olufemi Taiwo

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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To solve old problems, study new species | Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado

Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Want kids to learn well? Feed them well | Sam Kass

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds

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How students of color confront impostor syndrome | Dena Simmons

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world | Roger Antonsen

Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds

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Help for kids the education system ignores | Victor Rios

Published: Nov. 17, 2016, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 50 seconds

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4 reasons to learn a new language | John McWhorter

Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 6:54 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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Why open a school? To close a prison | Nadia Lopez

Published: Sept. 21, 2016, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan

Published: Sept. 6, 2016, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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How to fix a broken education system ... without any more money | Seema Bansal

Published: June 22, 2016, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds

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What's so sexy about math? | Cedric Villani

Published: June 6, 2016, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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This virtual lab will revolutionize science class | Michael Bodekaer

Published: May 6, 2016, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | Mary Norris

Published: April 15, 2016, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

Published: March 15, 2016, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school | Sakena Yacoobi

Published: Sept. 21, 2015, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds

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The story we tell about poverty isn't true | Mia Birdsong

Published: Sept. 15, 2015, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds

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How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger's | Alix Generous

Published: Aug. 17, 2015, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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What explains the rise of humans? | Yuval Noah Harari

Published: July 24, 2015, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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The nerd's guide to learning everything online | John Green

Published: July 22, 2015, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard | Linda Cliatt-Wayman

Published: June 5, 2015, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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Math is forever | Eduardo Saenz de Cabezon

Published: April 7, 2015, 3:53 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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A love poem for lonely prime numbers | Harry Baker

Published: March 4, 2015, 4:10 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds

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Why you should care about whale poo | Asha de Vos

Published: Jan. 5, 2015, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom | Frans Lanting

Published: Oct. 29, 2014, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds

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What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | Fabien Cousteau

Published: Oct. 23, 2014, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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The magic of the Amazon: A river that flows invisibly all around us | Antonio Donato Nobre

Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds

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How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

Published: Sept. 11, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds

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Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt

Published: Sept. 2, 2014, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome' | Jill Shargaa

Published: Aug. 29, 2014, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds

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The danger of silence | Clint Smith

Published: Aug. 15, 2014, 3:46 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

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Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking | Megan Washington

Published: Aug. 8, 2014, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds

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An ultra-low-cost college degree | Shai Reshef

Published: Aug. 4, 2014, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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What makes a word "real"? | Anne Curzan

Published: June 17, 2014, 2:52 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds

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What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet | Deborah Gordon

Published: May 13, 2014, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 9 seconds

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Comics that ask "what if?" | Randall Munroe

Published: May 8, 2014, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) | Hamish Jolly

Published: April 23, 2014, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds

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Teach teachers how to create magic | Christopher Emdin

Published: April 8, 2014, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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A new equation for intelligence | Alex Wissner-Gross

Published: Feb. 6, 2014, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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Why massive open online courses (still) matter | Anant Agarwal

Published: Jan. 27, 2014, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds

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The magic of Fibonacci numbers | Arthur Benjamin

Published: Nov. 8, 2013, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 24 seconds

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The pursuit of ignorance | Stuart Firestein

Published: Sept. 24, 2013, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds

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Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers | Adam Spencer

Published: Sept. 3, 2013, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson

Published: May 10, 2013, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds

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Grit: The power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth

Published: May 9, 2013, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | Geoffrey Canada

Published: May 8, 2013, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher | Pearl Arredondo

Published: May 8, 2013, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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3 rules to spark learning | Ramsey Musallam

Published: May 8, 2013, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds

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Teachers need real feedback | Bill Gates

Published: May 8, 2013, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! | ShaoLan

Published: May 7, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson

Published: May 3, 2013, 2:02 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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4 pillars of college success in science | Freeman Hrabowski

Published: April 8, 2013, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds

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A girl who demanded school | Kakenya Ntaiya

Published: March 7, 2013, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds

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Build a School in the Cloud | Sugata Mitra

Published: Feb. 27, 2013, 10:38 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Dare to educate Afghan girls | Shabana Basij-Rasikh

Published: Feb. 11, 2013, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Hey science teachers -- make it fun | Tyler DeWitt

Published: Feb. 5, 2013, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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Let's teach kids to code | Mitch Resnick

Published: Jan. 29, 2013, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Kids need structure | Colin Powell

Published: Jan. 23, 2013, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds

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Your brain on video games | Daphne Bavelier

Published: Nov. 19, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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The tragedy of orphanages | Georgette Mulheir

Published: Nov. 8, 2012, 4:03 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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What I've learned from my autistic brothers | Faith Jegede Cole

Published: Nov. 2, 2012, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Talk nerdy to me | Melissa Marshall

Published: Oct. 11, 2012, 3 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 34 seconds

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The self-organizing computer course | Shimon Schocken

Published: Oct. 4, 2012, 3 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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How we can eat our landscapes | Pam Warhurst

Published: Aug. 9, 2012, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds

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What we're learning from online education | Daphne Koller

Published: Aug. 1, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds

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A teacher growing green in the South Bronx | Stephen Ritz

Published: July 31, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds

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Every city needs healthy honey bees | Noah Wilson-Rich

Published: July 28, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds

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Reinventing the encyclopedia game | Rives

Published: June 26, 2012, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 46 seconds

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The 100,000-student classroom | Peter Norvig

Published: June 21, 2012, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla | Marco Tempest

Published: June 20, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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Archaeology from space | Sarah Parcak

Published: June 14, 2012, 3 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Why is 'x' the unknown? | Terry Moore

Published: June 6, 2012, 3 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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What's left to explore? | Nathan Wolfe

Published: May 21, 2012, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer

Published: May 10, 2012, 3 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

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Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

Published: Dec. 6, 2011, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 39 seconds

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