👁What's a food allergy -- and what's not?
🧠Jen Gunter
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣People often mix up food allergies and food intolerances, even though they require completely different medical treatments. Dr. Jen Gunter explains how allergies quickly trigger the immune system, while intolerances disrupt digestion and can sometimes take days to show up. Learn how to spot the difference and get a better understanding of how your body reacts to food. (For more on how your body works, tune in to her podcast, Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, from the TED Audio Collective.)
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#food #human_body #health_care #health

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👁How your sense of smell helps you savor flavor
🧠Jen Gunter
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Eating pizza with a stuffy nose just isn't as satisfying -- and there's a reason for that. Dr. Jen Gunter explains how our ability to smell and taste work together to give us a full sensory experience. So whether you're sniffing the caramelized aroma of coffee, a whiff of trash or a trillion other things, your brain knows exactly what's under your nose. (For more on how your body works, tune in to her podcast, Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, from the TED Audio Collective.)
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#smell #human_body #health #science

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👁Work is not your family
🧠Gloria Chan Packer
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣You may need to hear this (if you haven't already): your job is not your family. While you can develop meaningful relationships with your colleagues, calling work your family can actually breed burnout and be detrimental to your mental and emotional health. Mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer walks through the exercises you need to shift your perspective and redraw the boundaries between your work and personal life, so you can feel freer and more empowered.
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#work #work_life_balance #business #worklife #relationships #mental_health #TEDx #success

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👁SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration
🧠Jennifer Heldmann
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new -- and supersized -- way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help humanity achieve its next galactic leaps and usher in a new era of space exploration, from investigating the solar system's many ocean worlds to launching bigger telescopes that can see deeper into the universe.
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#technology #future #space #exploration #science #robots #Mars #Planets #NASA

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👁3 steps to build peace and create meaningful change
🧠Georgette Bennett
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣As the child of Holocaust survivors and a World War II refugee herself, peace builder Georgette Bennett was stunned by the human toll and tragedy of the Syrian civil war. She got to work, bringing together historical enemies to build an aid pipeline from Israel to Syria -- a feat many considered impossible, but has since helped millions. Through this inspiring story of unlikely partnership, Bennett shares three steps for creating change and invites all of us to take action when we see someone in need.
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#collaboration #human_rights #humanity #compassion #refugees #religion #social_change

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👁AI-generated creatures that stretch the boundaries of imagination
🧠Sofia Crespo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Can AI help us see beyond our human capabilities? Through a kaleidoscopic blend of technology, nature and art, neural artist Sofia Crespo brings to life animals that push the boundaries of creativity and imagination. Her artistic renditions of chimeras combine images of real-world endangered species to create something totally new -- with the intention of inspiring real-world conservation. Witness a speculative study of creatures that never existed, brought to life by AI.
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#nature #technology #art #AI #biodiversity #biomimicry #biology #biotech #conservation

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👁How puberty changes your brain
🧠Shannon Odell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣While we often talk about puberty's effect on the body, what gets overlooked are the fascinating changes that happen in the brain. Puberty, in fact, begins in the brain, and lasts as long as five years. And during this extended process, the brain undergoes its own transformation, thanks to estrogen and testosterone. Shannon Odell details what we know— and still don't know— about puberty. [Directed by Biljana Labović, narrated by Alexandra Panzer and Adrian Dannatt, music by Weston Fonger].
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#brain #TED_Ed #animation #education #health #science

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👁The global opportunity to accelerate Africa's sustainable future
🧠Vanessa Nakate and Mary Robinson
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate sits down with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson for an enlightening, intergenerational conversation about the state of the climate crisis. Nakate paints a picture of life in her home country of Uganda -- which faces prolonged droughts, landslides and flooding stemming from climate change -- and clarifies the need for energy-rich, high-emitting nations to provide climate finance for Africa and accelerate the continent's sustainable future. "We cannot solve the problems that are happening right now with the very system that created them," Nakate says. "We need something new."
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#climate_change #Africa #environment #sustainability #social_change #activism #youth #energy #fossil_fuels

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👁What happens to people's donated eggs and sperm after they die?
🧠Ellen Trachman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Today, there are many ways to conceive a child, thanks to assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and egg-freezing. But the law lags behind these advancements, says attorney Ellen Trachman, troubling parents-to-be with stranger-than-fiction mix-ups and baffling lawsuits. Trachman makes the case for legality to reflect the realities of reproductive innovation -- and prompts you to reconsider what could happen to your own genetic material.
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#law #LGBTQIA+ #family #pregnancy #policy #technology #TEDx

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👁How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music
🧠Kyra Gaunt
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How does music shape us? Digital ethnomusicologist and TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt studies how Black girls can preserve the integrity of their own voices while listening, dancing and singing to pop songs largely engineered by men, often with lyrics that express anti-Black, patriarchal sentiments. In a quick, incisive talk, she shows how Black girls can disrupt the stereotypes and stigmas buried within this music and chart their own revolution in sound.
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#music #dance #social_change #culture #entertainment #TED_Fellows

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👁What is the rarest color in nature?
🧠Victoria Hwang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Plants, animals, or minerals found in nature bear almost every color imaginable. There are two factors that influence what hues you see in the wild: physics and evolution. So, which colors are you least likely to see in the natural world? Victoria Hwang explores one of nature's rarest spectacles. [Directed by Tamara Bogovac, Artrake Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Nikola Radivojevic].
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#animation #TED_Ed #education #evolution #nature #plants #biology #physics #animals

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👁Why do beavers build dams?
🧠Glynnis Hood
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Nestled in the forests of Canada sits the world's longest beaver dam. This 850-meter-long structure is large enough to be seen in satellite imagery and has dramatically transformed the region, creating a pond containing 70 million liters of water. But dams of any size can have huge impacts on their environment. So how exactly do beavers build these impressive structures? Glynnis Hood investigates. [Directed by Keegan Thornhill, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#education #animation #animals #TED_Ed #science #biology #engineering #biodiversity #biomimicry

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👁How do we create a better economy?
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Can we call any economy "healthy" in the face of dwindling resources and growing inequality? What if we cut off our addiction to endless growth, and used a new compass for modern prosperity? One such compass is known as "doughnut economics," which aims to meet the needs of people without overshooting Earth's ecological limits. Explore how this model reframes our economic systems. [Directed by Vicente Nirō, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by Kate Raworth and George Zaidan, music by André Aires].
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#animation #education #economics #TED_Ed #natural_resources #poverty #resources

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👁Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy?
🧠Elizabeth Cox
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣It's 1990. A prospective student has filed a complaint about Virginia Military institute's admissions policy that excludes women. The state argues that VMI's single sex education is an "important governmental objective" and that the exclusion of women from VMI is essential to that objective. Can you spot the problem with this argument? Elizabeth Cox explores the circular reasoning fallacy. [Directed by TOGETHER, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott].
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#education #TED_Ed #history #animation #law #gender #United_States

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👁The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR
🧠Craig Richard
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A curious, quiet revolution of sound has taken over the internet. Physiologist Craig Richard explains the soothing brain science of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), tracking its rise in popularity and why this fascinating phenomenon is so relaxing to millions of people around the world.
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#science #TEDx #Internet #brain #neuroscience #sleep #mental_health

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👁How to preserve your private life in the age of social media
🧠Bryce Dallas Howard
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Growing up in the public eye, multi-hyphenate creator Bryce Dallas Howard experienced the familiar pressure to share her life with the world on social media. But with her mother's steadfast guidance, Howard learned to set personal boundaries and savor the beauty of private moments. In this personal talk, she draws on three generations of family wisdom to remind us that "a private life makes a public life worth living."
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#social_media #mindfulness #self #family #personal_growth #media #relationships #Life

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👁History vs. Thomas Jefferson
🧠Frank Cogliano
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Thomas Jefferson, founding father of the United States and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, was part of America's fight for freedom and equality. But in his personal life, he held over 600 people in slavery. Are his enlightened principles outweighed by his participation in a greater injustice? Frank Cogliano puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Thomas Jefferson. [Directed by Brett Underhill, PorkchopBob Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#education #TED_Ed #history #United_States #leadership #animation #Slavery

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👁Ethical dilemma: Would you lie?
🧠Sarah Stroud
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Your plan to set up your friend Carey with your acquaintance Emerson is finally coming together. You've made them a dinner reservation, but suddenly realize that there's a problem: Carey is always late. You really want this relationship to work— what if you told Carey dinner was at 6 instead of 6:30, so they arrived on time? Is it okay to lie? Sarah Stroud explores this classic ethical dilemma. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Jarrett Farkas].
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#TED_Ed #education #ethics #animation #philosophy #psychology #decision_making

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👁How to do laundry when you're depressed
🧠KC Davis
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Ever had a hard time doing daily household tasks -- cooking, cleaning, laundry -- and felt like a terrible person for struggling in the first place? Therapist KC Davis is here to flip that negative internalized script with a simple yet perspective-shifting fact that may change your approach to life. Learn a gentler, more practical approach to mental health as Davis shares hard-won wisdom and helpful shortcuts on how to get by when you feel like you've barely got it together.
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#mental_health #personal_growth #TEDx #compassion #psychology

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👁You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one
🧠Majora Carter
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Low-status neighborhoods in the US are often stuck between stagnating assistance from the government and gentrification at the hands of real estate developers. The result is that the brightest minds are convinced that "success" means leaving town. Urban revitalizer Majora Carter has a solution: What if we treated these communities like struggling companies? She presents a restorative economic approach to capitalism, which seeks to retain talent, build resilient communities and prove that you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one.
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#business #investing #community #social_change #capitalism #activism #government #United_States #cities

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