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What If It Rains Bananas For A Single Day? (Spoiler: It's Bad)
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6 Weapons That Changed Human History Forever
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Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
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Explaining Compassion
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TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
AdultsFoodHistoryHuman Food is culture, food is life — it’s part of who we are and the magic that binds us together. But here’s the twist: the way we eat is pushing the climate to the brink, with a third of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from the way we grow, process and waste food.
The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
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Mountain Search Puppy's First Training Session | Wonderful World of Puppies | BBC Earth
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Bill Gates Traumatized His Parents: The Early Years You Don't Know About | The Big Interview | WIRED
AdultsHistoryHumanTechnology Businessman, philanthropist, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates sits down with WIRED Editor-At-Large Steven Levy to discuss the inspiration behind his new book 'Source Code: My Beginnings'.
The four questions that can help your mind heal | Byron Katie
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology “I saw that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, and when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer.”
The Ancestor Paradox
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The Real Reason Why You Have Allergies
AdultsBiologyHealthHuman Allergies are more than just overreactions – they might be an evolutionary relic from a time when worms invaded our bodies daily.
How Community-Led Research Drives Social Change | Monica Malta | TED
AdultsHistoryHumanLife What's the best way to develop and implement solutions to social problems?
Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness | Annaka Harris
AdultsHumanPsychologyScience Consciousness is everything we know, everything we experience. The mystery at the heart of consciousness lies in why our universe – despite teeming with non-conscious matter – is configured in a way where it's having a felt experience from the inside.
How AI Is Saving Billions of Years of Human Research Time | Max Jaderberg | TED
AdultsEducationHumanTechnology Can AI compress the yearslong research time of a PhD into seconds?
The real reason polio is so dangerous
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