👁Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
🧠Stephanie Honchell Smith
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In the 1980s, the world faced a huge problem: there was a rapidly expanding hole in the ozone layer. If it continued to grow, rates of skin cancer could skyrocket, photosynthesis would be impaired, agricultural production would plummet, and entire ecosystems would collapse. So, what happened? Stephanie Honchell Smith shares how decisive global cooperation helped restore the ozone layer. [Directed by Denys Spolitak, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁Why were there three popes at the same time?
🧠Joëlle Rollo-Koster
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣For almost two millennia, the Pope has been a figure of supreme spiritual authority for Catholics around the world. But in the late 14th century, Catholics found themselves with not one, not two, but three popes. Where did this plethora of popes come from? And who among them was the genuine article? Joëlle Rollo-Koster shares the origins of this papal predicament. [Directed by Kaspar Jancis, narrated by Adrian Dannatt, music by Kaspar Jancis].
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#education #TED_Ed #animation #religion #history

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👁Why AI is incredibly smart and shockingly stupid
🧠Yejin Choi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, highlighting three key problems with cutting-edge large language models (including some funny instances of them failing at basic commonsense reasoning.) She welcomes us into a new era in which AI is becoming almost like a new intellectual species -- and identifies the benefits of building smaller AI systems trained on human norms and values. (Followed by a Q&A with head of TED Chris Anderson)
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#AI #machine_learning #technology #science #teaching #future #innovation #ethics #humanity

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👁The Hawaiian story of the king's betrayal
🧠Sydney Iaukea
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Long ago, the Hawaiian wind goddess wielded a gourd that housed the winds of the Islands. It came to hold her bones, along with the life force they carried, and was eventually passed to her grandson, Paka'a. Like his father before him, he became the trusted attendant to the king of Hawaii. But his privileged status also made him a target. Sydney Iaukea shares the tale of the king's betrayal. [Directed by Ivana Bošnjak, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#TED_Ed #animation #storytelling #education #culture #nature

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👁The epidemics that almost happened
🧠George Zaidan
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2013, an Ebola outbreak began in Guinea. The country had no formal response system and the outbreak became the largest Ebola epidemic in recorded history. Guinea then completely overhauled their response system, and were able to successfully combat another outbreak in 2021. So what does an effective epidemic response look like? George Zaidan explores how different communities have taken action. [Directed by Gavin Edwards, Movult, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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#TED_Ed #health #health_care #education #pandemic #animation #disease #illness #Vaccines

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👁Can you outsmart Fate and break her ancient curse?
🧠Dan Finkel
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Hundreds of years ago, your ancestor stole a magical tarot deck from Fate herself— and it came with a terrible cost. Once every 23 years, one member of your family must face Fate in a duel with rules only known to your opponent. And every time, generation after generation, the outcome is the same: Fate claims their soul. Today, it's your turn. Can you defeat Fate? Dan Finkel shows how. [Directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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👁The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI
🧠Tom Graham
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣AI-generated media that looks and sounds exactly like the real world will soon permeate our lives. How should we prepare for it? AI developer Tom Graham discusses the extraordinary power of this rapidly advancing technology, demoing cutting-edge examples -- including real-time face swaps and voice cloning -- live from the TED stage. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Graham digs into the creative potential of this hyperreal content (often referred to as "deepfakes") as well as its risk for exploitation and the new legal rights we'll need in order to maintain control over our photorealistic AI avatars.
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#AI #technology #computers #media #data #machine_learning #future #software #entertainment

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👁How AI could save (not destroy) education
🧠Sal Khan
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.
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#education #technology #kids #AI #teaching

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👁What will the dream car of the future be like?
🧠Alex Koster
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Fasten your seat belt as software engineer Alex Koster takes us on a journey in what he calls the "software dream car" of the future. He breaks down how massive technological shifts are transforming the automotive industry and paints a vivid picture of where cars are headed -- from AI drivers to interiors and exteriors shaped by augmented and virtual reality.
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#technology #transportation #computers #AI #future #travel #design

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👁1816: The year with no summer
🧠David Biello
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun for almost an entire year. This wreaked havoc on agriculture, leading to famines all across the Northern hemisphere. It was the year without summer— one of the darkest periods in human history. So why are some modern researchers considering repeating it? David Biello digs into geoengineering. [Directed by Léon Moh-Cah, Andi Concha, Na Na Na Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#animation #climate_change #TED_Ed #education #engineering #natural_resources #natural_disaster #science

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👁Does AI actually understand us?
🧠Alona Fyshe
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Is AI as smart as it seems? Exploring the "brain" behind machine learning, neural networker Alona Fyshe delves into the language processing abilities of talkative tech (like the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession ChatGPT) and explains how different it is from your own brain -- even though it can sound convincingly human.
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#emotions #AI #technology #innovation #humanity #machine_learning #language

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👁The timeless, ancient language of art
🧠Wangechi Mutu
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu's visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the Sahel to her own chimeric abstractions, she shares her journey of self-discovery and reminds us all that we already speak the most ancient language of all.
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#art #women #Africa #creativity #storytelling #identity

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👁Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise?
🧠Hanako Sawada
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1960, composer John Cage went on television to share his latest work. But rather than using traditional instruments, Cage appeared surrounded by household clutter, including a bathtub, ice cubes, a toy fish, a rubber duck, several radios, and performed "Water Walk." Most people watching had the same question: is this even music? Hanako Sawada explores the boundaries between music and noise. [Directed Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Jarrett Farkas].
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#TED_Ed #animation #education #music

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👁Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia
🧠Susan G. Wardle
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Imagine opening a bag of chips, only to find Santa Claus looking back at you. Or turning a corner to see a building smiling at you. Humans see faces in all kinds of mundane objects, but these faces aren't real— they're illusions due to a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. So why exactly does this happen, and how far does this distortion go? Susan G. Wardle explores why we see illusory faces. [Directed by Oksana Kurmaz, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by André Aires].
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#education #TED_Ed #brain #medical_research #biology #animation #evolution #science #neuroscience

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👁Who is the fastest creature in mythology?
🧠Iseult Gillespie
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣It's time for the Myth Olympics: the eternal arena in which creatures and deities compete for glory. Almost every mythical tradition claims one creature as the fastest— from goddesses who run like the wind to creatures who outstrip every captor. So, who will emerge victorious in a race of superhuman swiftness? Iseult Gillespie convenes mythology's speediest supernaturals for an epic showdown. [Directed by BASA, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Igor Figueroa, Estudio Mono].
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👁What did people do before anesthesia?
🧠Sally Frampton
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The quest for anesthetics that could induce unconsciousness and enable more meticulous surgeries began around the early 3rd century CE. Before anesthesia was widely used, patients had to consciously endure every moment of surgery. So, what methods did doctors use before modern medicine caught up? Sally Frampton traces the history of anesthetic drugs. [Directed by Alexander Hellebaut, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Arthur Brouns].
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👁Can we recreate the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy?
🧠David M. Howard
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Drawing on his work reconstructing the vocal tract of an ancient Egyptian priest, speech scientist David M. Howard shares three evolutionary wonders of human speech -- and the importance of nurturing your own voice in an increasingly noisy world.
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#history #language #communication #human_body #biology #science #TEDx #evolution

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👁How to design a school for the future
🧠Punya Mishra
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In all the conversations about improving education for children, the voices of students, teachers and community members are often left out. Educational designer Punya Mishra offers a method to shift that paradigm, taking us through new thinking on the root of success (and failure) at school -- and how a totally new, different kind of educational system could better meet students' needs.
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#teaching #education #kids #design #parenting #social_change #success

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👁The dinosaur detectives of real-life Jurassic parks
🧠Martin Lockley
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Dinosaur tracks can teach us more about the day-to-day behavior of creatures like T. rex or the Stegosaurus than their skeletons ever could, says paleontologist Martin Lockley. From a "dinosaur's lover's lane" in Colorado to the rocky shores of South Korea, Lockley explores what we can learn from the traces of some of the most impressive creatures ever to walk the Earth.
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#paleontology #history #dinosaurs #science #TEDx #ancient_world #discovery

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👁Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial?
🧠Carolyn Harris
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣She was the Queen of France, notorious for living in opulence while peasants starved and became a symbol of everything wrong with monarchy. But was Marie Antionette a heartless, wasteful queen, or a convenient scapegoat in turbulent times? Carolyn Harris puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Marie Antoinette. [Directed by Brett Underhill, PorkchopBob Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#education #animation #TED_Ed #history #women

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