👁300 years of classical music in 18 minutes
🧠Joshua Bell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Does the world still need classical music? What about orchestras? In this gorgeous talk and performance, violinist Joshua Bell and the Chamber Orchestra of America play selections of classical music masterpieces — from Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and more — sharing why this art form remains a singularly unifying force.
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#music #performance #art #history

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👁What are truffles, and why are they so expensive?
🧠Carolyn Beans
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive foods— in part because global demand often outstrips supply. And truffles are becoming even more rare and more expensive as deforestation and climate change shrink their suitable terrain. But why are these fungi so rare? And why don’t we just farm more of them? Carolyn Beans digs into the truffle’s unique and somewhat mysterious biology. [Directed by Denys Spolitak, narrated by Adrian Dannatt, music by Cem Misirlioglu, Brooks Ball[.
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #food #history #biology #fungi

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👁The army of autonomous robots restoring nature
🧠Tom Chi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Impact investor Tom Chi challenges a dangerous assumption: that economic growth and ecological health are opposing forces. He reveals how advances in AI and robotics are enabling a radical shift towards innovation as a force for restoration. Imagine mines that extract less, farms that regenerate soil and fleets of robots that can plant 100,000 mangroves in a single day. What if the same technologies that power our economy could actively repair the planet at the same time?
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#sustainability #innovation #climate_change #Countdown #robots #economics #environment #technology #nature

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👁What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain
🧠Wendy Troxel
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Sleep deprivation among American teenagers is an epidemic. Only about 1 in 10 teens gets the 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night recommended by sleep scientists and pediatricians. So, what’s going on? And what changes can be made to address this issue? Wendy Troxel shares how early school start times and public policy are depriving adolescents of sleep at a time when they need it most. [Directed by Laura Jayne Hodkin, music by Cem Misirlioglu, WORKPLAYWORK].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #sleep #teenagers #brain #health #mental_health

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👁The world's first "nature superpower"
🧠Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all part of a multi-billion-dollar global environmental crime economy. Civic entrepreneur Ilona Szabó de Carvalho sees this crisis as an opportunity. Revealing how Brazil is pioneering an economic model actually profiting from protecting nature, she shares the ambitious restoration goals and innovations in forest mapping that are turning the country into a "nature superpower." Get a glimpse of what an economy rooted in regeneration, not extraction, could look like.
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#climate_change #environment #trees #sustainability #economics #business #leadership #Countdown #Brazil

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👁What Earth in 2125 could look like
🧠Iseult Gillespie
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Faced with the realities of current crises, it’s easy to assume our world is headed in a bleak direction. But there’s good reason to be hopeful— with developments in science and technology, a positive future is more viable than ever before. So, what if the future was awesome? Iseult Gillespie explores what three cities could look like in 100 years if we harness the tools we have at our disposal. [Directed by Devin Clark, Augenblick Studios, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Tom Kaericher].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #future #sustainability #climate_change #technology #cities

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👁A practical guide to taking control of your life
🧠Cate Hall
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The real lever of a meaningful life isn’t intelligence or hustle — it’s personal agency, says Cate Hall, former Supreme Court attorney and once the world’s top-ranked female poker player. Sharing her journey from the throes of addiction to leading a multibillion-dollar foundation, Hall shares tactical wisdom for increasing your ability to see and act on life's hidden degrees of freedom, showing how even the most trapped among us can discover a path to fulfillment.
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#personal_growth #Life #decision_making #success

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👁The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha
🧠Ji Hao
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣After wreaking havoc across the heavens and being captured in a white-hot prison cell, the Monkey King freed himself once more and was itching for a fight. Desperate, the Jade Emperor called on the supreme power in all the heavens: the Buddha himself. But even in the face of this almighty opponent, Sun Wukong was not cowed. Ji Hao follows the Monkey King's quest to outwit the Buddha. [Directed by Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao, narrated by Adrian Dannatt, music by Aron Fard].
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👁A traditional job isn’t the only path to success
🧠Anuj Tanna
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Africa’s booming youth population is often seen as a "jobless generation." But in Kenya alone, young people are already adding more than 530 million dollars a month to the economy through informal businesses. Social entrepreneur Anuj Tanna, who cofounded a social network to connect these entrepreneurs, challenges us to rethink the narrative: What if the informal economy isn’t a problem to fix, but a powerful engine to fuel the future of work?
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#business #Countdown #women_in_business #entrepreneur #innovation #Africa #economics #community

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👁How we can unlock every student’s genius
🧠Trish Millines Dziko
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Forget home economics and standardized tests, Trish Millines Dziko has a much more engaging and fulfilling way for students to develop real-world skills. Get schooled by Dziko as she shares how project-based learning can transform public education and unlock genius for the next generation of critical thinkers, problem solvers, ideators, and leaders. [Directed by Prashanti Aswani, music by Avik Chari].
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👁How common knowledge shapes the world
🧠Steven Pinker
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Common knowledge is the secret engine of social life, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups to markets to international diplomacy. In this fascinating talk, experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explores its momentous impact, threading together stories of why autocrats fear blank signs, why central bankers mumble and why saying the quiet part out loud can wreck a friendship. With wit and wisdom, he invites us to better understand the ways we get into each other’s heads — and what it means when shared norms wobble.
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#psychology #economics #communication #society #social_change #innovation #decision_making #history #collaboration

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👁The 3 best predictors of how well you’ll age
🧠Juulia Jylhava
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣If you want to learn a tree’s age, you can count their rings. When it comes to humans, scientists have yet to find any visible traits that mark our age with the same specificity. But in the past few decades, they’ve discovered small, invisible markers hidden within the body that do change over time. Juulia Jylhävä shares what these markers can tell us about our health, history, and future. [Directed by Flaka Kokolli, Diellza Franca, Flammorum Animation Studio, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #biology #human_body #aging #science #genetics #health

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👁The daily practice that could rewire your brain
🧠Timm Chiusano
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Timm Chiusano was having one of the worst days of his career when he found himself inexplicably fascinated by a mundane part of the world on his walk home. That moment sparked a life-changing realization: he was addicted to appreciation, and it was actually his superpower. He shares a disarmingly simple practice that will make you happier, more present and better equipped to navigate your most challenging days.
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#personal_growth #emotions #relationships #curiosity

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👁Why are there two tides a day?
🧠Elise Cutts
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In the 17th century, Isaac Newton offered the first gravitational explanation of tides. As he correctly identified, tides are choreographed by the motions of celestial objects, and Earth’s tides in particular are mostly driven by the Moon. But the precise nature of this relationship is actually quite nuanced. Elise Cutts explains how the Sun and Moon are responsible for the tides. [Directed by Rémi Cans, Atypicalist, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #space #science #astronomy #Planets #Moon #Sun

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👁How the fridge changed food
🧠Nicola Twilley
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if your kitchen fridge is just the tip of an iceberg that's reshaping the world? Food storyteller Nicola Twilley reveals how the massive “artificial Arctic” we built to keep our food fresh is simultaneously melting the real one. She shows why we're at a critical moment to rethink our relationship with the cold chain and refrigeration — and explores the emerging technologies that could keep food fresh without putting the planet on thin ice.
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#Countdown #climate_change #food #sustainability #health #environment

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👁Norse mythology’s climate lessons for the future
🧠Lauren Fadiman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What if ancient myths are warnings for the future? Contemporary folklorist Lauren Fadiman explores how the Norse tale of Ragnarök may stem from real climate catastrophe, revealing how folklore preserves lessons of resilience and can guide how we adapt to our own time of crisis.
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👁The thrill of not knowing all the answers
🧠Harini Bhat
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In a world that prizes certainty, hot takes and instant answers, what happens when we celebrate the power of ... not knowing? Scientist and storyteller Harini Bhat shares how she built a mega-popular YouTube channel where curiosity, not credentials, drives discovery. From ancient brains turned to glass to the origins of life itself, she reminds us that science isn't just for scientists — it's for anyone willing to ask, "Why?"
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#science #curiosity #history #discovery

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👁The epic Nordic legend of the monster slayer
🧠Iseult Gillespie
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣An epic written in Old English, “Beowulf” is known for its haunting monsters, dream-like language, and paranoid perspective, where violent threats are always waiting on the fringes of society. The action follows Beowulf, a prince of Geats, who travels to aid a kingdom in freeing itself from a monster’s reign of terror. Why is this poem considered a classic? Iseult Gillespie traces the hero’s tale. [Directed by Raghav Arumugam, Jagriti Khirwar, narrated by Susan Zimmerman, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁Can AI uplift entrepreneurs that traditional banks reject?
🧠Mercedes Bidart
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Can AI help people without a traditional credit history get access to fair loans? Impact entrepreneur Mercedes Bidart shows how AI is letting informal entrepreneurs in Latin America transform "invisible data" on their phones into a financial identity, helping them get credit and grow on their own terms.
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👁The seed that gave Coca-Cola its name
🧠Shantel George
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The kola nut is the seed of the kola tree, a small evergreen native to the forests of West Africa, where it’s long been integral to the cultural fabric of many communities. So, how did this sacred ingredient end up all around the world? And how did it make its way into the original recipe of a drink that billions of people consume every day? Shantel George explores the bitter history of kola nuts. [Directed by Nikhita Prabhudesai Jeena, Totem Creative, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by André Aires].
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