Studies have shown that taking vitamins is good for your health and bad for your health. That newly discovered herb can improve your memory or destroy your liver. Headlines proclaim a promising new cancer treatment and never mention it again. On a daily basis, we are bombarded with attention-grabbing news, backed up by scientific studies,…
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What did dogs teach humans about diabetes? – Duncan C. Ferguson
Diabetes mellitus has been a scourge of the developed world with an estimated 400,000,000 people worldwide suffering from this disease, and 50% more predicted within twenty years. Its early symptoms, which include increased thirst and large volumes of urine, were recognized as far back as 1500 BCE in Egypt. While the term diabetes, meaning “to…
What light can teach us about the universe – Pete Edwards
How and when did our universe begin? How did it get to look like this? How will it end? Humans have been discussing these questions for as long as they’ve been around without ever reaching much agreement. Today, cosmologists are working hard to find the answers. But how can anyone hope to find concrete answers…
What is dyslexia? – Kelli Sandman-Hurley
Take a moment to read the following. How was that? Frustrating? Slow? What were those sentences about? They’re actually a simulation of the experience of dyslexia, designed to make you decode each word. Those with dyslexia experience that laborious pace every time they read. When most people think of dyslexia, they think of seeing letters…
Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Bringing a pop-up book to life
In this short video, we’re going to show you how we constructed and animated a pop-up book to explain Earth’s tectonic plates. The supercontinent Pangaea broke apart 200,000,000 years ago, but the pieces haven’t stopped shifting. Although with animation we can show this movement easily with drawings, we thought it’d be more interesting to depict…
Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained – Christina Greer
Translator: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar Most people have heard of the Electoral College during presidential election years. But what exactly is the Electoral College? Simply said, it is a group of people appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. To understand how this process began…