👁Why do women have periods?
🧠TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious trait: a menstrual cycle. We're one of the select few mammals on Earth that menstruate, and we also do it more than any other animal, even though it's a waste of nutrients, and can be a physical inconvenience. So where's the sense in this uncommon biological process? TED-Ed describes the history and evolution of menstruation. [Directed by TED-Ed, narrated by Susan Zimmerman].
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👁How sugar affects the brain
🧠Nicole Avena
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣When you eat something loaded with sugar, your taste buds, your gut and your brain all take notice. This activation of your reward system is not unlike how bodies process addictive substances such as alcohol or nicotine -- an overload of sugar spikes dopamine levels and leaves you craving more. Nicole Avena explains why sweets and treats should be enjoyed in moderation. [Directed by STK Films, narrated by Michelle Snow, music by Michael Dow].
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#TED_Ed #health #brain #food #health_care #animation #public_health #addiction

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👁How does anesthesia work?
🧠Steven Zheng
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣When under anesthesia, you can't move, form memories, or — hopefully — feel pain. And while it might just seem like you are asleep for that time, you actually aren't. What's going on? Steven Zheng explains what we know about the science behind anesthesia. [Directed by Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#consciousness #health #history #psychology #public_health #medicine #medical_research #invention #TED_Ed

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👁This could be why you're depressed or anxious
🧠Johann Hari
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In a moving talk, journalist Johann Hari shares fresh insights on the causes of depression and anxiety from experts around the world -- as well as some exciting emerging solutions. "If you're depressed or anxious, you're not weak and you're not crazy -- you're a human being with unmet needs," Hari says.
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#depression #mental_health #illness #society #personal_growth #brain #humanity #relationships

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👁Underwater astonishments
🧠David Gallo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. This short talk celebrates the pioneering work of ocean explorers like Edith Widder and Roger Hanlon.
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#animals #evolution #exploration #fish #science #technology #marine_biology #ocean

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👁How stretching actually changes your muscles
🧠Malachy McHugh
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣An athlete is preparing for a game. They've put on their gear and done their warmup, and now it's time for one more routine — stretching. Typically, athletes stretch before physical activity to avoid injuries like strains and tears. But does stretching actually prevent these issues? And if so, how long do the benefits of stretching last? Malachy McHugh explores the finer points of flexibility. [Directed by Sofia Pashaei, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#animation #health #education #TED_Ed #exercise #human_body #biology

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👁This one weird trick will get you infinite gold
🧠Dan Finkel
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A few years ago, the king decided your life would be forfeit unless you tripled the gold coins in his treasury. Fortunately, a strange little man appeared and magically performed the feat. Unfortunately, you promised him your first-born child in exchange for his help — and today he's come to collect. Can you figure out how to outsmart the man and keep your baby? Dan Finkel shows how. [Directed by Gavin Edwards, Movult, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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#TED_Ed #math #animation #education

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👁6 myths about the Middle Ages that everyone believes
🧠Stephanie Honchell Smith
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Medieval Europe. Where unbathed, sword-wielding knights ate rotten meat, thought the Earth was flat, defended chastity-belt wearing maidens, and tortured their foes with grisly gadgets. Except... this is more fiction than fact. So, where do all the myths about the Middle Ages come from? And what were they actually like? Stephanie Honchell Smith debunks common misconceptions about the time period. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Christina Greer, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#education #history #animation #Europe #TED_Ed

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👁One of the most banned books of all time
🧠Mollie Godfrey
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1998, a school district removed one of American literature's most acclaimed works from its curriculum. Parents pushing for the ban said the book was both "sexually explicit" and "anti-white." The book at the center of this debate was Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings." Why was the memoir so controversial? Mollie Godfrey digs into one of the most banned books of all time. [Directed by Laura White, narrated by Karen Marie, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#education #animation #TED_Ed #literature #writing #books #United_States #women #sexual_violence

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👁One of the most "dangerous" men in American history
🧠Keenan Norris
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1830, David Walker sewed a pamphlet into the lining of a coat. The volume was thin enough to be hidden, but its content was far from insubstantial. At the time, many members of the US government considered this pamphlet to be one of the most dangerous documents in American history. But what was this incendiary document? And who exactly was the man who wrote it? Keenan Norris investigates. [Directed by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu, Jared Samuel].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #history #Slavery #United_States #race #literature #writing

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👁5 steps to building a personal brand you feel good about
🧠Marcos Salazar
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Whether you realize it or not, you have a personal brand, says social entrepreneur Marcos Salazar -- and you have the power to shape what it is. Here's how you can create a brand that captures who you are, who you'd like to be and how you want to make an impact on the world.
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#work #self #personal_growth #personality #communication #marketing

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👁3 stories of Pakistani resilience, told in film
🧠Jawad Sharif
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED Fellow Jawad Sharif was born with a rebellious streak -- and he's used it in his documentary films to amplify the unheard voices of Pakistan. Sharing three stories of everyday heroes -- a high-altitude mountaineer, a folk musician of a bygone instrument and the country's first transgender doctor -- Sharif shows how documentaries can be a space for both creation and defiance.
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#film #social_change #creativity #storytelling #TED_Fellows #art

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👁4 ways to make hybrid work better for everyone
🧠Tsedal Neeley
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How can we rethink hybrid work so it brings out the best in both in-person and distributed employees? Leadership expert Tsedal Neeley shares the changes that we need to make in order to create workplaces that actually work -- no matter where you're located.
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#work #culture #work_life_balance #society #social_change #leadership

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👁Ethical dilemma: Should we get rid of mosquitoes?
🧠Talya Hackett
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths every year than any other animal, but very few of the 3,500 mosquito species actually transmit deadly diseases to humans. Scientists have been conducting experiments using engineered technologies called gene drives that could theoretically get rid of the most lethal mosquitoes. So, should we eradicate these pesky insects? Talya Hackett investigates. [Directed by Luísa M H Copetti, Hype CG, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott, music by Gabriel Maia].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #nature #insects #genetics #disease #DNA #Africa

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👁How to deal with rejection
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Rejection hurts. It's incredibly painful to feel like you're not wanted — and we do mean painful. Researchers found that we relate rejection to being "hurt," using terms like "crushed" or "broken-hearted." So, why does rejection trigger such a strong response, and is there any way to cope with this unique kind of pain? Explore common strategies to help you process this emotional experience. [Directed Caitlin McCarthy, narrated Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#psychology #TED_Ed #education #animation #pain #emotions #brain #relationships

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👁When are you actually an adult?
🧠Shannon Odell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Most countries recognize 18 as the start of adulthood by granting various freedoms and privileges. Yet there's no exact age or moment in development that we can point to as having reached full maturity. If there's no consensus on exactly when we reach maturity, when do we actually become adults? Shannon Odell shares how scientists define adulthood using stages of brain development. [Directed by Biljana Labović, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, Gen Parton-Shin, May Yoshioka, music by Weston Fonger, Samuel Bellingham].
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👁Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look
🧠Anil Ananthaswamy
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Our memories and bodies give us clues about who we are, but what happens when this guidance shifts? In this mind-bending talk, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy shares how the experiences of "altered selves" -- resulting from schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, foreign limb syndrome or other conditions -- shed light on the constructed nature of identity. He breaks down where our sense of self comes from and invites us to challenge our assumptions about who we are, with the aim of building a better you and a better world.
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#Alzheimer's #brain #consciousness #identity #humanity #philosophy #self #psychology #science

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👁The most important century in human history
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Is it possible that this century is the most important one in human history? The 21st century has already proven to be a period of rapid growth. We're on the cusp of developing new technologies that could entirely change the way people live— and could contribute to unprecedented levels of existential risk. Explore how the decisions we make now might have a major impact on humanity's future. [Directed by Jon Mayes, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by George Zaidan, music by André Aires].
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#TED_Ed #technology #education #animation #humanity #AI #future #history

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👁How bad data traps people in the US justice system
🧠Clementine Jacoby
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Right now, hundreds of thousands of people are "stuck" in the US criminal justice system. They've completed all of their requirements for release, but nobody knows it because the system is run on old databases that don't talk to each other. TED Fellow Clementine Jacoby describes how we can fix it -- bringing thousands of people home, reducing costs and improving public safety along the way.
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👁The continents are moving. When will they collide?
🧠Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In the early 20th century, Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift laid the foundation for our modern theory of plate tectonics. And today we know something even more exciting: Pangea was only the latest in a long lineage of supercontinents, and it won't be the last. Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl explores when the next supercontinent will emerge — and what it might mean for Earth's environment. [Directed by Iuri Araujo, Província Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#animation #TED_Ed #geology #education #science #history

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