How Schools Can Nurture Every Student's Genius | Trish Millines Dziko | TED
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Forget home economics and standardized tests, education visionary Trish Millines Dziko has a much more engaging and fulfilling way for students to develop real-world skills.
Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?
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At its height, the Roman Empire was home to about 30 % of the world’s population, and in many ways the pinnacle of human advancement.
The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
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Because of the potential size of the future, the most important thing about our actions today might be their impact on future generations.
We WILL Fix Climate Change!
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Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that will lead to the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization.
Where will you be able to live in 20 years? - Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas
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Explore how coastal communities are impacted by climate change and how they’re adapting to rising sea levels and extreme weather.
If We Aren't Too Late
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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/3dSVdur
1950s vs. NOW: Did Mid-Century Futurism Flop?
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What kind of future did the people of the 1950s predict? Did people get the tech they wanted?
Why the Future of Cars is Electric
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Electric cars are now ready to take over thanks to advances in battery technology and their inherent benefits: torque, handling, maintenance.
Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict
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Scientists are trying to figure out if they can predict big earthquakes by simulating small quakes in labs and studying big quakes under the ocean. Thanks to the University of Rhode Island for sponsoring this video.
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
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Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
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If you enjoy this lesson, we highly recommend reading "The World Without Us."
Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand?
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Are We Doomed? Boston Dynamics' Unsettling Robot Dog SpotMini Can Now Open The Door
The Plane of the Future
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What's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?
Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
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Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
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South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
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Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.
Stretchy Batteries Are Coming... Here's How They Work
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Researchers have developed a way to make a battery and its casing stretchy, enabling future advancements in wearable electronics.
Four inventions that might change the world
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Tiny lab-grown organs. A spongy cloth that absorbs oil spills. Sure, why not. These are some of the finalists for the European Inventor Award.
Moore's Law Is Ending... So, What's Next?
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Scientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
What humans will look like in 1,000 years
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There will eventually be a day where prosthetics are no longer just for the disabled. However, it's not just our outside appearance that will change - our genes will also evolve on microscopic levels to aid our survival. For example, an Oxford-led study discovered a group of HIV-infected children in South Africa living healthy lives. It turns out, they have a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the virus from advancing to AIDS.