👁How a dung beetle inspired a better AI model
🧠Nanjira Sambuli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who gets trampled in the process? She introduces a new ethical compass for AI, showing how people across the continent are charting a different path for the future of tech.
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#AI #technology #Africa #innovation #humanity #community #software

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👁What is vaginal discharge, and what does it say about your health?
🧠Elizabeth Micks
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Our bodies are constantly producing, purging, and recycling secretions to fulfill all sorts of functions. Our reproductive organs are no exception. Vaginas are engaged in ongoing cycles of fluid discharge. But it can be hard to know what is "normal" when there’s a taboo in talking about it. So, what’s healthy discharge? And when is there cause for concern? Elizabeth Micks investigates. [Directed by Juliana Erazo, narrated by Susan Zimmerman, music by Ana Roman].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #human_body #health #reproductive_health #women #women's_health #science

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👁Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question
🧠Vinciane Beauchêne
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some commonly held assumptions about how AI will transform the workplace, sharing a blueprint for leaders to design organizations where people can focus on what truly makes a difference.
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#AI #work #technology #business #humanity #future

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👁What causes herpes, and how can you treat it?
🧠Christine Johnston
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In the 1st century CE, Emperor Tiberius made an unprecedented decision: banning kissing at all public events. This move was aimed at thwarting a puzzling outbreak, which many historians believe was an epidemic of oral herpes. Today, more than half the population is infected with herpes simplex virus. So, what causes herpes? And how can we treat it? Christine Johnston examines this stealthy virus. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu, WORKPLAYWORK].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #health #health_care #sex #disease

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👁What ancestral intelligence can teach us about AI
🧠Nanjira Sambuli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who gets trampled in the process? She introduces a new ethical compass for AI, showing how people across the continent are charting a different path for the future of tech.
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#AI #technology #Africa #innovation #humanity #community #software

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👁The foods humanity forgot — and how we're bringing them back
🧠Helianti Hilman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Nutritious crops aren't getting to the people who need nutrition most, even in one of the most fertile places on Earth: Indonesia. Exploring some of the forgotten foods from the country's more than 17,000 islands, food entrepreneur Helianti Hillman explains why centering food policy on biodiversity, rather than monoculture, is the key to healthier people and a healthier planet.
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#food #biodiversity #environment #health #policy #climate_change #sustainability #Countdown

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👁The new science of eyewitness memory
🧠John Wixted
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psychology researcher, challenges this conventional wisdom with a counterintuitive finding: the problem might not be memory itself but how (and when) courts test it.
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#memory #justice_system #trust #brain

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👁What staying up all night does to your brain
🧠Anna Rothschild
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣You’re just one history final away from a relaxing spring break. But you still have so much to study! You decide to follow in the footsteps of many students before you, and pull an all-nighter. So, what happens to your brain when you stay up all night? And does cramming like this actually help you prepare for a test? Anna Rothschild explores how a sleepless night impacts your cognitive function. [Directed by Biljana Labović, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #sleep #brain #memory #health #science #biology

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👁How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs
🧠Llion Jones
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Llion Jones cowrote "Attention Is All You Need," the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that the industry that grew out of this breakthrough is stifling the next one. Learn why the current corporate arms race is killing true innovation and how we can get back to bold exploration.
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#technology #AI #computers #machine_learning #competition

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👁Can you solve the trickster god riddle?
🧠Alex Rosenthal
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Ragnarok has been raging for far too long; many gods and heroes have fallen, and the rest can barely stand. Loki, his bright eyes dimmed by exhaustion, asks to meet. He proposes that you and he settle the conflict with a game atop a sacred table engraved with your names. Can you beat the infamous trickster and win the right to rule the new world? Alex Rosenthal shows how. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #math

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👁"Marigolds," a poem about wonder
🧠Safiya Sinclair
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Poet Safiya Sinclair performs "Marigolds: A Letter to Wonder," an original poem she created for TED that explores memory, beauty and the fragility of life. After the poem, she talks with TED's Helen Walters about her writing process — and what it feels like when the creative muse strikes.
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#poetry #writing #creativity #nature #gardening

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👁Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation
🧠Dave Raggio
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣To launch new initiatives within the confines of a large corporation, you'll need to work with the system, not against it, says "intrapreneur" Dave Raggio. He shares three lessons on innovation he learned the hard way — so you don't have to. (Made in partnership with Intuit)
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#entrepreneur #business #collaboration #innovation #product_design #leadership

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👁The 6 essential ingredients of loving relationships
🧠Sara Nasserzadeh
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣How do you build a lifetime of love? After analyzing 450 couples across more than 40 countries, relational psychotherapist Sara Nasserzadeh discovered six essential ingredients for successful relationships (hint: it's not just about sexual chemistry). Learn more about "emergent love" — a new, evidence-based model for fostering the love you desire.
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#love #relationships #psychology #trust #compassion

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👁This could save lives— but are you willing to do it?
🧠Michael Vazquez
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Your government has introduced a plan to address record-breaking rates of traffic tickets and deadly hovercar accidents. They propose assigning “driver credit scores” to every citizen, but would need to install cameras and microphones in every vehicle. While it would make the roads safer, is this undeniable benefit worth the cost to drivers’ privacy? Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud investigate. [Directed by Jeff Le Bars, JetPropulsion.space, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #ethics #philosophy

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👁The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves
🧠Mark Miodownik
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik describes a new class of materials — animate matter — with the potential to sense damage, self-heal and even biodegrade when the job is done. Humanity's next great leap isn't making more stuff, he says — it's making stuff that doesn't fall apart.
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#engineering #science #technology #infrastructure #architecture #urban_planning #cities

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👁The pressure that makes Olympians perform worse
🧠Dominique Condo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Why do we celebrate appearance over ability in sports? Performance scientist Dominique Condo explores why so many elite female athletes — women with Olympic medals, world records and championship trophies — report body image concerns that end up hindering their performance. She offers a series of subtle shifts we can make to help any athlete stay focused on building strength, resilience and confidence.
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#sports #health #human_body #personal_growth #social_change #competition #women #women's_health

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👁Yo! Have you ever seen a yo-yo dance like this?
🧠Shu Takada
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A six-time world yo-yo champion, Shu Takada is spinning his dreams into reality. Watch how he turns a humble pastime into a mesmerizing art form, blending yo-yo wizardry with dance and acrobatics.
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#performance #entertainment #dance #toys

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👁The AI-generated intimacy crisis
🧠Bryony Cole
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three questions to ask yourself if you’re already intimate with AI, laying out a playbook for synthetic companionship that doesn’t hide you from the messiness of human life — but prepares you for it instead.
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#AI #relationships #love #culture #technology #humanity

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👁How does kidney transplant surgery work?
🧠Alexander Toledo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1954, Joseph Murray attempted a type of kidney swap that no doctor had tried before. The surgery was a success, and the patient would go on to live with the transplanted organ thanks to one key factor: it came from his identical twin. 70 years later, nearly 100,000 kidneys are transplanted annually in the US alone. So how does this surgery work today? Alexander H. Toledo explains the procedure. [Directed by Biljana Labović, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #medicine #medical_research #Surgery #health

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👁The tiny organisms transforming farming
🧠Karsten Temme
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if the solution to feeding humanity has been hiding in the soil for millions of years? Bioengineer Karsten Temme discovered a remarkable answer to this question: for eons, crops relied on soil microbes to convert atmospheric nitrogen into food — until modern farming severed that ancient partnership. He shows how we can reawaken those dormant microbes using gene editing, creating “living fertilizer” that delivers nutrients to crops in real time and transforms farms around the world.
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#biotech #microbes #Countdown #climate_change #agriculture #farming #food

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