Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-the-world-according-to-cats-eva-maria-geigl In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And unlike dogs, who have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats. How did these solitary, fierce predators become our sofa sidekicks? Eva-Maria Geigl traces
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Dr. Wendy LeBorgne is passionate about how the physiology and perception of the human voice functions as the single most important aspect of communication. Dr. Wendy LeBorgne presents on the 5 key elements of voice which combine to create your Personal Voice Brand ™ and influence listeners around you. Dr. Wendy LeBorgne is an author-pioneer
What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after the brutal civil war there. When he noticed that people who had prosthetics weren’t actually wearing them, he set out to discover why — and to
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Want Scientifically Literate Children? Get Out of Their Way. New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit
We call for a different way of thinking about both democracy and society. Healthy democracies are able to promote responsiveness and accountability between institutions, experts and citizens; whilst those that fail to do lack precisely those qualities. We need to look beyond the ballot box – understanding elections and electoral democracy one part of a
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Your math teacher and friends will be confused, but you’ll look like a genius when you solve multiplication problems with this unusual math trick. Source: I read about this trick from a math book first published in 1956. (Rapid Math Without A Calculator by Frederick Collins). If you like my videos, you can support me
Beautiful Dragon Curves, Fractals and Jurassic Park. Featuring Rob Eastaway. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Rob’s website: http://www.robeastaway.com/ Thanks to Matthew Ward and Faraz Barzideh who helped Brady out with some curves! The book Jurassic Park is by the late Michael Crichton. NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets:
Our eyes can spot edges with no problems, but how do computers determine what’s an edge and what’s not? Image Analyst Dr Mike Pound explains the Sobel Edge detector. How Blurs & Filters work: https://youtu.be/C_zFhWdM4ic The Problem with JPEG: https://youtu.be/yBX8GFqt6GA Secrets Hidden in Images (Steganography): https://youtu.be/TWEXCYQKyDc Man in the Middle Attacks: https://youtu.be/-enHfpHMBo4 Mike’s Code in
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Where do physics majors end up, besides broke and teaching the next mob of physics majors? How many physics majors end up working in History and English right out of school? Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/ Watch at your own risk for a speedy list of careers for physics majors, plus some words
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How many friends can you actually have? No, really… how many friends can your brain handle? Kevin details the work of anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who suggests that human beings are cognitively-equipped to handle around 150 friendships. While studying primates, Dunbar found a correlation between the size of the neocortex and the size of the average
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Many videos on YouTube show water freezing almost instantaneously. This video shows you how to replicate the experiment and it explains how the phenomenon works. Molecular illustrations are courtesy of: PhET Interactive Simulations University of Colorado http://phet.colorado.edu.
Every bowling lane has a hidden oil pattern. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards finds out what that means. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, a badge that levels up over time, and video
Dinorwig Power Station, otherwise known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydro station in Llanberis, Wales. And yes: it’s Britain’s largest battery. Here’s how it works, and why some of the things you think you know about TV pickups might not be so true any more. Thanks to all the Engie team! More about them:
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One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly increasing. But, life’s inherent chemical makeup has been hacking the disorder of the universe for billions of years! SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium
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TWEET IT – http://clicktotweet.com/qAe6N Could zombies exist? Should we be preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse? Find out how these ferocious, flesh-eating creatures could become a reality, through a simple scientific pathway. Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Music by Mitchell Moffit http://www.mitchellmoffit.com Tweets by
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Explore William Golding’s timeless satire, “Lord of the Flies,” which follows a group of shipwrecked boys as they descend into anarchy. — After witnessing the atrocities of his fellow man in World War II, William Golding was losing his faith in humanity. Later, during the Cold War, as superpowers began threatening one another with nuclear
Tu la pipì la fai seduto? Destrutturare le azioni che portano il maschio a portare in scena la sua mascolinità non è mai facile. La chiave di volta è proprio capire che esistono tante mascolinità quanti gli abitanti maschi sulla terra. In questo talk Pierluca Mariti ci racconta il suo punto di vista, il suo
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from
Your reptilian brain, explained with Robert Sapolsky Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg Up next ►► The Science of Brain Health and Cognitive Decline What’s the best way to think about the brain? While most of us think of it as a dense gray matter that’s separate from the physical body, that actually
How did the internet giants come to dominate our world? Big Tech firms are now some of the richest and most powerful entities on the planet – and we’re starting to see the effects of this extreme concentration of power, in the shocking ways these platforms have been used to manipulate our elections, violate our
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