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25 Apr 2012

TED Blog | Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed

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Announcing a new way to use video to create customized lessons: the "Flip This Lesson" feature from TED-Ed, now in beta at ed.ted.com. With this feature, educators can use, tweak, or completely redo any video lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on a TEDTalk or...
15 Apr 2012

Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together.

Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.
18 Mar 2012

How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

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Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- E...
31 Jan 2012

Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

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Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. "Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good."
14 Jan 2012

Martin Seligman on positive psychology | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
28 Dec 2011

Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that we make smart choices for Future Us.
24 Nov 2011

Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks Nature’s beauty can be easily missed -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
21 Nov 2011

Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks At 18, Natalie Warne’s work with the Invisible Children movement made her a hero for young activists. At TEDxTeen she uses her inspiring story to remind us that no one is too young to change the world.
16 Nov 2011

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media | Video on TED.com

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TED Talks In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.

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