This Engineer's Crazy Plan to Clean Air with Smog-Sucking Bikes
AdultsGlobal WarmingScienceTechnologyThese bicycles are designed to filter smog out of the air as you ride. This could be a game changer for smoggy cities like Beijing.
The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent
AdultsScienceSpaceOver the course of history, we've discovered hundreds of thousands of asteroids. But how do astronomers discover these bits of rock and metal? How many have they found? And how do they tell asteroids apart? Carrie Nugent shares the story of the very first asteroid ever discovered and explains how asteroid hunters search for these celestial bodies.
Explore cave paintings in this 360 animated cave - Iseult Gillespie
AdultsArtHistoryCultureThe paintings of our ancestors have been preserved in caves all over the world; the oldest we've found were made up to 40,000 years ago. What do these images tell us about the ancient human mind and the lives of their creators? In this special 360 TED-Ed animation, explore an ancient cave and its surroundings as Iseult Gillespie shares a brief history of cave paintings.
Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Feelings
AdultsHumanPsychologyMental HealthIt can be very hard to detect just how much our judgement is constantly affected by our feelings. We should - at points - take care to be very sceptical of our first impulses.
Ocean Defense Kid | Connor Berryhill // 60 Second Docs
AdultsAnimalsNatureOcean...Connor Berryhill was only 5 years old when an underwater encounter with an endangered monk seal set him on a path to take care of the world's most vulnerable creatures. Now 11, he's taken his small-scale activism big and started his own nonprofit, MicroActivist. Their mission: to connect youth with projects to protect the ocean -- and save our planet's oceans and seas.
How We Lie to Ourselves
AdultsHumanPsychologySociety...We are masters at knowing how to lie to ourselves. We pay a heavy price for this self-deception.
Wheelchair Water Park | Morgan's Wonderland // 60 Second Docs
AdultsBusinessDisabilityFamily...At Inspiration Island, a wheelchair water park in Morgan's Wonderland of San Antonio, Texas, kids are invited to have fun in a safe environment that caters to children with disabilities. On a family vacation in 2005, Gordon and Maddie Hartman saw how hard it was for children to connect with their daughter, who has special needs. So they decided to build a park just for children like her. Here, rides are custom-built to accommodate wheelchairs and inclusion is celebrated. So far, over a million guests from around the world have paid this one-of-a-kind park a visit.
Binging with Babish: Curb Your Enthusiasm Special
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentLarry David fluctuates wildly between flagrantly eschewing and rigorously enforcing cultural mores, all of which frequently revolve around food. Slow ice cream orderers, religiously forbidden chicken, caviar entitlement - they're all fodder for Larry's machinations of social upheaval. Just don't eat the man's shrimp.
Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun
AdultsBiologyHealthScienceWe've harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated smallpox. But after billions of dollars in research, we haven't found a solution for a disease that affects more than 14 million people and their families at any given time. Why is it so difficult to cure cancer? Kyuson Yun explains the challenges.
Why Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
AdultsScienceSpaceWhy is the universe organized the way it is? And why is it so empty? From planets and stars to superclusters and galactic filaments, the universe's largest structures formed because of its smallest. In this special collaboration with PHD Comics, we'll learn how the earliest, quantumest blips seeded the structure of everything everywhere.
Why We Feel Lonely and Odd
AdultsHumanPsychologyMental Health...We feel lonely and odd because we mistakenly assume that the kind of thoughts and fears we have will have no echo in other people. They do; it's just we haven't found a way to speak to one another honestly about who we are.
Meet the Woman that lives IRONMAN | Quest for Kona E4
AdultsFamilyMental HealthSports...One of Susanne Vanzijl's two sons has autism, and IRONMAN provides an emotional release. She qualified for the IRONMAN World Championship in 2015, but didn't finish the race. Two years later she is seeking a second chance to compete.
Open offices are overrated
AdultsPhilosophyWorkProductivity...If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad?