👁Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In 1996, a British Airways plane flew from New York to London in a record-breaking two hours and fifty-three minutes. Today, however, passengers flying the same route can expect to spend no less than six hours in the air — twice as long. So why, in a world where everything seems to be getting faster, have commercial flights lagged behind? Alex Gendler details the problems facing supersonic flight. [Directed by Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions
🧠Karen Scrivener
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Concrete is the second most-used substance on Earth (behind water), and it's responsible for eight percent of the world's carbon footprint. Cement researcher Karen Scrivener shares the research behind a pioneering new kind of cement known as LC3, which could slash carbon emissions from this crucial building material by 40 percent, if adopted at scale.
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👁How we could make carbon-negative concrete
🧠Tom Schuler
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Concrete is all around us: we use it to build our roads, buildings, bridges and much more. Yet over the last 2,000 years, the art of mixing cement and using it to bind concrete hasn't changed very much -- and it remains one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon. Entrepreneur Tom Schuler previews an innovative way to create concrete, potentially turning it into a carbon sink that traps CO2 from the atmosphere -- while producing a viable building material.
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👁The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10
🧠Alex Rosenthal
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣This is episode 10 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked reliable water sources. The Colorado River's erratic flow and frequent floods made it unreliable for agriculture, and the region's growing cities needed more energy. So the government decided to build a massive hydroelectric dam. Alex Gendler details the creation of the Hoover Dam. [Directed Jovan Rakic, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Nikola Radivojevic].
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👁Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Stretching 227 meters tall, two towers were assembled to support California's Golden Gate Bridge. They were just one of the challenges facing engineers Charles Ellis and Joseph Strauss. Even before construction began, many thought the project impossible: the strait was home to powerful winds, constant fog, and earthquakes. So how was this iconic bridge created? Alex Gendler details the feat. [Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁What happens when biology becomes technology?
🧠Christina Agapakis
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"We've been promised a future of chrome -- but what if the future is fleshy?" asks biological designer Christina Agapakis. In this awe-inspiring talk, Agapakis details her work in synthetic biology -- a multidisciplinary area of research that pokes holes in the line between what's natural and artificial -- and shares how breaking down the boundaries between science, society, nature and technology can lead us to imagine different possible futures.
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👁A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines
🧠Skylar Tibbits
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣What if we could harness the ocean's movement to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels? Designer and TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits shows how his lab is creating a dynamic, adaptable system of underwater structures that uses energy from ocean waves to accumulate sand and restore eroding shorelines -- working with the forces of nature to build rather than destroy.
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👁Why a sausage can do what your gloves cannot
🧠Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn't activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales. So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn't? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini dig into the science of touchscreens. [Directed by Luis Torres, Mr. Flama, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁How AI could empower any business
🧠Andrew Ng
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Expensive to build and often needing highly skilled engineers to maintain, artificial intelligence systems generally only pay off for large tech companies with vast amounts of data. But what if your local pizza shop could use AI to predict which flavor would sell best each day of the week? Andrew Ng shares a vision for democratizing access to AI, empowering any business to make decisions that will increase their profit and productivity. Learn how we could build a richer society – all with just a few self-provided data points.
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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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👁The Taj Mahal: A monument to eternal love
🧠Stephanie Honchell Smith
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣It's 1631. Mumtaz Mahal, beloved wife of Emperor Shah Jahan, is giving birth to their 14th child. A healthy girl is born, but Mumtaz dies soon after. Sobbing uncontrollably, the emperor decides to build a tomb worthy of his queen: a replica of paradise to embody their love and project the power of the Mughal Empire for all time. Stephanie Honchell Smith details the construction of the Taj Mahal. [Directed by Jeff Le Bars, Jet Propulsion, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁How do airplanes actually fly?
🧠Raymond Adkins
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣By 1917, Albert Einstein had explained the relationship between space and time. But, that year, he designed a flawed airplane wing. His attempt was based on an incomplete theory of how flight works. Indeed, insufficient and inaccurate explanations still circulate today. So, where did Einstein go wrong? And how exactly do planes fly? Raymond Adkins explains the concept of aerodynamic lift. [Directed by Michael Kalopaidis, Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁How does your smartphone know your location?
🧠Wilton L. Virgo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣GPS location apps on a smartphone can be very handy when mapping a travel route or finding nearby events. But how does your smartphone know where you are? Wilton L. Virgo explains how the answer lies 12,000 miles over your head, in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics. [Directed by Nick Hilditch, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁The year without 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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👁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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👁This is what happens when you hit the gas
🧠Shannon Odell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2015, two men drove a Volkswagen across the US on just over 100 gallons of fuel. Their 81-mile-per-gallon performance doubled the car's estimated fuel rating, and set the record for the lowest fuel consumption ride of a diesel car. The duo were experts in techniques that maximize fuel efficiency. So, how did their strategy save fuel? Shannon Odell explores what's going on beneath a car's hood. [Directed by Kevin Hermann, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by André Aires].
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👁Could AI give you X-ray vision?
🧠Tara Boroushaki
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if a robot could find and deliver your lost phone? AI researcher Tara Boroushaki presents how she's using wireless signals and sensors to create AI-powered goggles with "X-ray vision," creating a dynamic new tool with applications from improving efficiency in commercial warehouses to aiding emergency rescues.
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👁Entertainment is getting an AI upgrade
🧠Kylan Gibbs
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣AI has the power to bring your favorite fictional characters to life, says technologist Kylan Gibbs. Introducing Caleb, an "AI agent" with personality and internal reasoning, he demonstrates how AI-powered characters can interact with people in novel ways, generate unique video game outcomes and augment our ability to tell stories, opening up new worlds of possibility.
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👁The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers
🧠Tammy Ma
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and her team achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than was put in — recreating on Earth the same process that powers the Sun. She explains how they used a giant laser (way, way bigger than you're thinking) to catalyze this reaction and shares a vision for how this technology could change the world by creating limitless clean energy.
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