👁The orchestra in my mouth
🧠Tom Thum
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile.
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👁How to spot a liar
🧠Pamela Meyer
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of "Liespotting," shows the manners and "hotspots" used by those trained to recognize deception -- and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving. (Contains mature content)
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#culture #psychology #science #society

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👁The art of misdirection
🧠Apollo Robbins
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless.
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#crime #entertainment

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👁The danger of a single story
🧠Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
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#Africa #culture #identity #storytelling #writing #books

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👁The power of introverts
🧠Susan Cain
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.
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#business #culture #psychology #personality

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👁How to make stress your friend
🧠Kelly McGonigal
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.
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#body_language #health #psychology #mindfulness

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👁How I held my breath for 17 minutes
🧠David Blaine
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.
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#biology #magic #medicine #performance

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👁The puzzle of motivation
🧠Dan Pink
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.
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#brain #business #creativity #motivation #science #social_change #work

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👁My stroke of insight
🧠Jill Bolte Taylor
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
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#biology #brain #consciousness #global_issues #illness #science

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👁Strange answers to the psychopath test
🧠Jon Ronson
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)
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#culture #prison #storytelling

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👁Questions no one knows the answers to
🧠Chris Anderson (TED)
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?
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#TED_Ed #education #science #philosophy #space #Planets #consciousness #math #physics

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👁Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
🧠Angela Lee Duckworth
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
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#business #education #psychology #success

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👁10 ways to have a better conversation
🧠Celeste Headlee
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. "Go out, talk to people, listen to people," she says. "And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."
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#communication #interview #personal_growth #TEDx #language

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👁Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣You and nine other individuals have been captured by super-intelligent alien overlords. The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings. Unfortunately, they're not sure whether you qualify, so they decide to give you all a test. Can you solve this hat riddle? Alex Gendler shows how. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by WORKPLAYWORK and Cem Misirlioglu].
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#collaboration #creativity #memory #philosophy #TED_Ed #animation

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👁The happy secret to better work
🧠Shawn Achor
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.
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#TEDx #business #happiness #psychology #science #brain #cognitive_science #sociology #depression

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👁What is depression?
🧠Helen M. Farrell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world; in the United States, close to ten percent of adults struggle with the disease. But because it's a mental illness, it can be a lot harder to understand than, say, high cholesterol. Helen M. Farrell examines the symptoms and treatments of depression, and gives some tips for how you might help a friend who is suffering. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#health #psychology #brain #biology #science #mental_health #disability #animation #TED_Ed

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👁My escape from North Korea
🧠Hyeonseo Lee
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was "the best on the planet." It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China. Hers is a harrowing, personal tale of survival and hope -- and a powerful reminder of those who face constant danger, even when the border is far behind.
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#Asia #culture #family #global_issues

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👁The Infinite Hotel Paradox
🧠Jeff Dekofsky
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it's completely booked but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert's paradox. [Directed by The Moving Company Animation Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#animation #TED_Ed #math

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👁How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world
🧠Charita Gainey
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America's most famous writers. Its verses praised the burgeoning revolution, invoking the goddess of their new nation to aid the general's cause. But this ode to liberty wasn't written by some aloof aristocratic admirer. Its author was a young enslaved Black woman. Charita Gainey details the works of poet Phillis Wheatley. [Directed by Gavin Edwards, Movult, narrated by Christina Greer, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#TED_Ed #animation #women #education #race #writing #history #United_States #poetry

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👁What are those floaty things in your eye?
🧠Michael Mauser
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Michael Mauser explains the visual phenomenon that is floaters. [Directed by Reflective Films, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen].
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#health #TED_Ed #human_body #animation #science #biology

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