👁Why every world map is wrong
🧠Kayla Wolf
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Fourteen Greenlands could fit in Africa— but you wouldn't guess it from most maps of the world. The fact is, every world map humans have ever made is wrong. Actually, it's impossible to make a flat map of the whole spherical world 100% right. So why do we bother with these inaccurate maps at all? Kayla Wolf explores how even the simplest changes in map design can shift our point of view. [Directed by Globizco Studios, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Manuel Borda].
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👁The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history
🧠Kayla Wolf
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations. These maps were meant to depict the world's geography, but weren't necessarily useful for navigation and contained some glaring mistakes. Kayla Wolf shares mapmaking's biggest blunders. [Directed by Serin İnan, Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Cem Misirlioglu, David Coltun].
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👁The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history
🧠Kayla Wolf
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations. These maps were meant to depict the world's geography, but weren't necessarily useful for navigation and contained some glaring mistakes. Kayla Wolf shares mapmaking's biggest blunders. [Directed by Serin İnan, Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Cem Misirlioglu, David Coltun].
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👁The outlaws of the ocean -- and how we're reeling them in
🧠Tony Long
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Pirate fishing, oil spills and other undetected crimes are destroying ocean ecosystems -- but we can't stop what we can't see. Harnessing the power of satellite data and AI to catch maritime offenders in the act, ocean conservation expert and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Tony Long introduces the first-ever live map of all industrial human activity at sea. He shares how his team at Global Fishing Watch is making it freely available to the world so conservationists, researchers and the public can help protect precious aquatic habitats. (This ambitious idea is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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👁Why ocean currents are slowing — and what it means for you
🧠Susan Lozier
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Ocean waters are constantly on the move, traveling far distances in complex currents that regulate Earth's climate and weather patterns. How might climate change impact this critical system? Oceanographer Susan Lozier dives into the data, which suggests that ocean overturning is slowing down as waters gradually warm — and takes us on board the international effort to track these changes and set us on the right course while we still have time.
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👁The multidimensional magic of modern maps
🧠Peter Wilczynski
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Maps have long helped us understand the world — now, they can help us shape it. Digital cartographer Peter Wilczynski introduces the Living Globe: a real-time, data-rich digital twin of Earth that fuses satellite imagery, sensor data and AI. Watch for a glimpse of the future of maps — and learn how these new tools can help us build the future without wrecking the planet.
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