Best TED Ed talks for students How to access the videos: Go to http://ed.ted.com/Enter the name of the video in the search box. Note: Each lesson comes with questions on the right side Arts (Visual) The Amazing Math in Da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans: Why Is This Art?Brief History of GraffitiBrief History of Religion in ArtBringing a Pop-up Book to LifeThe Case for Andy WarholCave PaintingsThe Chaotic Brilliance of Artist Jean-Michel BasquiatComplex Geometry and Islamic DesignThe Dawn of ArtDoodlers UniteEye vs. CameraFrida Kahlo: The Woman Behind the LegendGyotaku: The Ancient Japanese Art of Printing FishThe History of GraffitiThe History of TattoosHow Ancient Art Influenced Modern ArtHow Art Can Help You AnalyzeHow One French Poet Combined Poetry and Visual ArtInside a Cartoonist’s WorldIs There a Difference Between Art and CraftThe Many Meanings of Michelangelo’s Statue of DavidMath and Van GoghThe Mathematics of Sidewalk IllusionsMy Cat Could Make That (What Is Abstract Expressionism?)Taking Imagination SeriouslyWhat Color is Tuesday? Exploring SynesthesiaWhat Is Color?What Is Minimalist Art and Why Does It Matter?Who Decided What Art MeansWhy Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old MenWhy Is This Painting So Captivating? (Girl with the Pearl Earring)Why Is This Painting So Captivating? (Las Meninas)Why Is This Painting So Shocking? (Guernica) Arts (Music) A Different Way to Visualize RhythmAnimation Basics: The Art of Timing and SpacingA-rhythm-etic. The Math Behind the BeatsBeatboxing 101A Brief History of GothsEarworms: Those Songs That Get Stuck in Your HeadFrom Aaliyah to Jay-Z: Captured Moments in Hip-Hop HistoryHow Bass Instruments WorkHow Playing an Instrument Benefits Your BrainHow to Practice EffectivelyHow to Read MusicJohann Sebastian Bach’ LifeMusic and Creativity in Ancient GreeceMusic and Emotion Through TimeMusic and Math: The Genius of BeethovenMusic as a LanguageThe Physics of Playing a GuitarThe Secrets of Mozart’s Magic FluteWhy You Should Listen to Vivaldi’s Four SeasonsWhy We Love Repetition in Music Arts (Theatre) Development of English DramaDid Shakespeare Write His Plays?Does the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Have a Hidden Message?The History of Social DanceIn on a Secret? That’s Dramatic IronyShakespeare’s Best InsultsKabuki: The People’s Dramatic ArtPoetry, Pentameter, Pirates (Shakespeare & Iambic Pentameter)The Science of Stage Fright (and How to Overcome It)Shakespearean Dating TipsSlowing Down Time (in Writing & Film)What’s the Definition of Comedy?Why Is Aristophanes Called the Father of Comedy?Why Is This Painting So Captivating? (Las Meninas)Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic PentameterWhy Tragedies Are Alluring? Community Service Recycling Styrofoam Counseling AddictionAre You a Giver or a Taker?Are You a Good Listener?The Distracted MindDoes School Prepare Students for the Real WorldDebunking the Myths of OCDThe Equation for Reaching Your DreamsFive Tips to Improve Critical ThinkingFive Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right NowFive Ways You Can Help a Friend Suffering from DepressionFriendships and VulnerabilityGrit: The Power of Passion and PerseveranceGood and Bad ChildhoodsGrowth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset: An IntroductionHow Does Stress Affect the Brain?How I Learned to Organize My ScatterbrainHow Miscommunication Happens (and How to Avoid It)How to Be ConfidentHow to Be More EmpatheticHow to Manage Your Time More EffectivelyHow to Practice EffectivelyHow to Stay Calm Under PressureHow to Stop Being Bored and Start Being BoldHow to Talk to People You Disagree WithIs Binge-Watching Bad for You?J.K. Rowling on the Importance of FailingLearning to ListenMannersOvercoming ObstaclesThe Science of Decision-MakingSeven Healthy Tips for a Better Night’s SleepA Simple Way to Break a Bad HabitStay in–or Leave–a Relationship?The Surprising Link Between Stress and MemoryTeach Girls Bravery Not PerfectionThree Quick Tips to Boost Your ConfidenceWhat Causes AddictionWhat Is Bipolar Disorder?What Is Depression?What Is Empathy?What Trying to Help My Friend Taught Me About Mental HealthWhat You Can Do When Friendship Becomes HarmfulWhy Do People Join Cults?Why Do We Make Irrational Decisions?Why Perfect Grades Don’t MatterWhy We Fear the Wrong Things Debate Are Boys Smarter Than Girls?Is There a Limit to Technological Progress?The Lost Art of Democratic DebatePrivate School vs. Public SchoolThe Pros and Cons of PesticidesShould We Get Rid of Standardized Testing?Should We Look for Life Elsewhere in the Universe?Would You Sacrifice One Person to Save Five? Design/Technology Animal ArchitectsAnimation Basics: Homemade Special EffectsAnimation Basics: The Optical Illusion of MotionA Brief History of Video Games (Part I)Building the Brooklyn BridgeCan Machines Read Your Emotions?Can a Robot be Creative?How a Bendy Straw Was InventedHow an Igloo Keeps You WarmHow Blue Jeans Were InventedHow Cars Went from Boxy to CurvyHow Computer Memory WorksHow Computers Translate Human LanguageHow Do Hard Drives Work?How Do Self-Driving Cars See?How Do Touchscreens Work?How Fan Films Shaped the Lego MovieHow Far Can We Go?How the Band-Aid was invented?How the Popsicle Was InventedHow the Romans Flooded the Colosseum for Sea BattlesHow the Rubber Glove was InventedHow the Sandwich Was InventedHow Smudge-proof Lipstick Was InventedHow Superglue Was InventedHow a TV Works in Slow MotionHow Was the First Metro System Built?Inside Your ComputerIs Google Killing Your Memory?Is It Possible to Create a Perfect Vacuum?A Life-Saving Device That Detects Heart AttacksMagnetic SlimeMeet a 12-year-old App DeveloperNine Futuristic MaterialsThe Power of Creative ConstraintsTeaching Design for ChangeTen Dangerous Fashion TrendsThink Like a Coder (Series)This One Weird Trick Will Help You Spot ClickbaitWhat Are Mini Brains?What If Cracks in Concrete Could Fix Themselves?What Is the Internet of Things?What Is a Smartphone Made of?What Is the World Wide Web?What’s So Special About Viking Ships? Will We Ever Be Able to Teleport?Will There Ever Be a Mile-High Skyscraper? French History vs. Napoleon BonaparteWhat Caused the French Revolution? Language & Literature Accents (There’s A Poem for That series)All the World Is a Stage (There’s a Poem for That series)An Antihero of One’s OwnAnimal Farm – Context and BackgroundThe Art of the MetaphorThe Assassination of Julius CaesarThe Aztec Myth of the Unluckiest Sun GodBecome a Slam Poet in Five StepsBeware of Nominalizations (AKA Zombie Nouns)A Brief History of Plural WordThe Cambodian Myth of Thunder, Lightning, and RainThe Case of a Misplaced ModifierThe Chinese Myth of the Immortal White Snake I & 2Comma StoryThe Clues to a Great StoryDare to Educate Afghan GirlsDoes Grammar Matter?Does the Wonderful World of Oz Have a Hidden Message?Everything You Need to Know to Read The Canterbury TalesEverything You Need to Know to Read FrankensteinEverything You Need to Know to Read The OdysseyThe Evolution of the BookFirst Kiss (There’s A Poem for That series)Five Myths from Around the WorldFor Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me a Card (There’s A Poem for That series)Francine’s Interview – Holocaust SurvivorA Global Culture to Fight ExtremismGrammar’s Great Divide: The Oxford CommaHarry Potter and the Translator’s NightmareHero: A Lesson from a Volunteer FirefighterA Host of HeroesHow Can You Change Someone’s Mind?How Did English Evolve?How Did Hitler Rise to Power?How Do Languages Evolve?How False News Can SpreadHow Fiction Can Change RealityHow the Heart Actually Pumps BloodHow Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?How Miscommunication HappensHow Misused Modifiers Can Hurt Your Writing How to Build a Fictional WorldHow to Make Your Writing SuspensefulHow Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?How to Recognize a DystopiaHow Thor Got His HammerHow to Use Rhetoric to Get What You WantHow to Use a SemicolonHow to Write Fiction That Comes AliveInsults by ShakespeareThe Irish Myth of the Giant’s CausewayIs There Any Truth to King Arthur’s Legends?The Key to Media’s Hidden CodesLessons from Auschwitz: The Power of Our WordsThe Magic, Mathematical Fictions of Jorge Luis BorgesTo Make Use of Water (There’s a Poem for That series)Making Sense of SpellingMining Literature for Deeper MeaningsMisleading HeadlinesThe Myth of ArachneThe Myth of Cupid and PsycheThe Myth of HerculesThe Myth of Icarus and DaedalusThe Myth of Jason & the ArgonautsThe Myth of King Midas and His Golden TouchThe Myth of Oisin and the Land of Eternal YouthThe Myth of Pandora’s BoxThe Myth of PrometheusThe Myth of SisyphusThe New Colossus (There’s a Poem for That series)The Nutritionist There’s a Poem for That series)Ode to the Only Black Kid in Class (There’s a Poem for That series)The Opposites Game (from There’s a Poem for That series)Plato’s Allegory of a CavePlato’s Best and Worst IdeasA Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman Interpreted by Three AnimatorsThe Poetry of Emily DickensonThe Poet Who Painted with WordsThe Power of a Great IntroductionThe Power of Simple WordsThe Punishable Perils of PlagiarismRalph Waldo Emerson and the Beauty of the EverydayA Refresher on Edgar Allan PoeThe Road Not Taken (There’s a Poem for That series)The Science Behind the Myth: Homer’s “Odyssey”The Secret Student Resistance to HitlerThe Second Coming (There’s a Poem for That series)Situational Irony: The Opposite of What You ThinkSpeech Acts: Constative and Performative (Power of Words)Thor’s Journey to the Land of GiantsThree Anti-Social Skills to Improve Your WritingThree Months After (There’s a Poem for That series)Titan of Terror: The Dark Imagination of H.P. LovecraftTo Make use of Water (There’s a Poem for That series)The Tragic Myth of Orpheus and EurydiceVampires: Folklore, Fantasy and FactWhat Aristotle and Joshua Bell Can Teach Us About PersuasionWhat Is an Antihero? What Is the Definition of Comedy?What Is Verbal Irony?What Makes a Hero?What Makes a Poem a Poem?What Makes Something Kafkaesque?What “Orwellian” Really Meanshttp://www.ted.com/playlists/75/what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat (This playlist comprises regular TED videos that you may find useful for the Chew on This unit.)When to Use ApostrophesWhen to Use Me, Myself, and I?Where Do New Words Come From?Who Am I?Who Is Sherlock Holmes?Who Were the Vestal Virgins?Why Facts Don’t Convince PeopleWhy Should You Read Charles Dickens?Why Should You Read Crime and Punishment?Why Should you Read Don Quixote?Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe?Why Should You Read Fahrenheit 451?Why Should You Read the Handmaid’s Tale?Why Should You Read Kurt Vonnegut?Why Should You Read Macbeth?Why Should You Read A Midsummer’s Night Dream?Why Should You Read One Hundred Years of Solitude?Why Should You Read Sylvia Plath?Why Should You Read The Tempest?Why Should You Read Waiting for Godot?Why Should You Read War and Peace?Why Should You Read Sci-Fi Superstar Octavia F. Butler?The Wicked Wit of Jane AustenWill the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Stand Up?The World According to James BaldwinThe World’s Most Mysterious Book Logic & Reasoning (Riddles) Can You Find the Next Number in This Sequence?Can You Outsmart This Logical Fallacy?Can You Solve the Airplane Riddle?Can You Solve the Alien Probe Riddle?Can You Solve the Bridge Riddle?Can You Solve the Buried Treasure Riddle?Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Riddle?Can You Solve the Cuddly, Duddly, Fuddly, Wuddly Riddle?Can You Solve the Dark Coin Riddle?Can You Solve the Egg Drop Riddle?Can You Solve Einstein’s Riddle?Can You Solve the False Positive Riddle?Can You Solve the Fish Riddle?Can You Solve the Frog Riddle?Can You Solve the Giant Cat Army Riddle?Can You Solve the Giant Iron Riddle?Can You Solve the Jail Break Riddle?Can You Solve the Killer Robo-Ants Riddle?Can You Solve the Leonardo da Vinci Riddle?Can You Solve the Locker Riddle?Can You Solve the Mondrian Squares Riddle?Can You Solve the Multiplying Rabbits Riddle?Can You Solve the Multiverse Rescue Mission Riddle?Can You Solve the Passcode Riddle?Can You Solve the Penniless Pilgrim Riddle?Can You Solve the Pirate Riddle?Can You Solve the Prisoner Box Riddle?Can You Solve the Prisoner Hat Riddle?Can You Solve the Rebel Supplies Riddle?Can You Solve the River Crossing Riddle?Can You Solve the Rogue AI Riddle?Can You Solve the Secret Werewolf Riddle?Can You Solve the Seven Planets Riddle?Can You Solve the Stolen Rubies Riddle?Can You Solve the Temple Riddle? Can You Solve the Three Gods Riddle?Can You Solve the Time Travel Riddle?Can You Solve the Troll’s Paradox Riddle?Can You Solve the Unstoppable Blob Riddle?Can You Solve the Vampire Hunter’s Riddle?Can You Solve the Wizard Standoff Riddle?Fire Crystal RiddleWinning at Rock, Paper, Scissors Mathematics A-rhythm-etic. The Math Behind the BeatsA Brief History of Banned NumbersA Brief History of Numerical SystemsCan You Solve This?The Case of the Missing FractalsCheck Your Intuition: The Birthday ProblemThe Complex Geometry of Islamic DesignThe Coin Flip ConundrumDa Vinci’s Vitruvian Man of MathThe Famously Difficult Green-Eyed Logic PuzzleA Faster Way to Add and Multiply in Your HeadThe Fundamentals of ProbabilityHow Big Is Infinity? How High Can You Count on Your Fingers?How the Konigsberg Bridge Problem Changed MathematicsHow Many Ways Are There to Prove the Pythagorean Theorem?How Many Ways Can You Arrange a Deck of Cards?How Statistics Can Be MisleadingHow to Make a HexaflexagonHow to Prove the Pythagorean TheoryHow to Spot a Misleading GraphHow to Visualize One Part Per MillionThe Infinite Hotel ParadoxThe Infinite Life of PiIs Math Discovered or Invented?Is Our Climate Headed for Mathematical Chaos?The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in ProbabilityMaking Sense of Irrational NumbersThe Math Behind Michael Jordan’s Legendary Hang TimeThe Mathematical Secrets of Pascual’s TriangleThe Mathematics of Sidewalk IllusionsMile of Pi – NumberphileMusic and Math: The Genius of BeethovenMysteries of Vernacular: ZeroPixar: The Math Behind the MoviesPopulation Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the FutureRiemann’s Paradox: Pi Equals Infinity Minus InfinityShould I Stay or Should I Switch Doors?SpongeBob’s house is not a pineapple (Fibonacci Numbers) A Trip Through Space to Calculate DistanceThe Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”Welcome to the Virus RiddleWhat Are Vectors?What’s an Algorithm?What’s the Difference Between Accuracy and Precision?Where Do Math Symbols Come From?Why Are Manhole Covers Round?Why Can’t You Divide by Zero?Why Does Math Make So Many People Anxious?Why Do People Get So Anxious About Math?Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons?Why the Metric System MattersWhy You Can’t Divided by Zero Philosophy Are We Living in a Simulation?Are You a Mind with a Body or a Body with a Mind?Does Time Exist?The Philosophy of Stoicism Physical & Health Education An Athlete Uses Physics to Shatter World RecordsAre Food Preservatives Bad for You?The Benefits of a Good Night’s SleepThe Benefits of Good PostureThe Complicated History of SurfingCould We Cure Aging During Your Lifetime?The Different Types of FatsDoes Stress Cause Pimples?Do Fad Diets Work?The Effects of Sleep DeprivationEradicating HIVThe Fascinating Science of Phantom LimbsFive Ways Social Media Is Changing Your BrainFive Weird Involuntary Reflexes Explained!The Heartbreaking Text That Inspired a Crisis Help LineThe History of the Black Fives Era in BasketballHow Anesthesia WorksHow Aspirin Was Discovered?How Blood Pressure WorksHow Close Are We to Eradicating HIV?How Concussions WorkHow Do Blood Transfusions Works?How Do Cigarettes Affect the Body?How Does Asthma Work?How Does Caffeine Keep Us Awake?How Does Sugar Affect the Brain?How Does Your Body Know You’re Full?How Does Your Body Process Medicine?How Does Your Digestive System Work?How Does Your Heart Pump Blood?How Does Your Liver Work?How Does Your Pancreas Work?How Does Your Thyroid Manage Your Metabolism?How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?How Do Glasses Help You See?How Do Vaccines Work?How Do Viruses Jump from Animals to Humans?How Do Vitamins Work?How Do We Study Living Brains?How Do Wounds Heal?How Do You Get Rid of Acne?How Do Your Kidneys Work? How Do Your Lungs Work?How Fast Can Humans Go?How the Food You Eat Affects Your BrainHow the Food You Eat Affects Your GutHow Hormones WorkHow Microbes Form CommunitiesHow Much Water Do We Need to Drink?How Mucus Keeps Us HealthyHow Old Are Your Ears? (This is a hearing test that requires earphones connected to a computer set at 1080p.)How One Scientist Averted a National Health CrisisHow Oxygen Travels Through the BodyHow Playing Sports Benefits Your Body and BrainHow Old Is Your Body Really?How to Practice EffectivelyHow Stress Affects the BrainHow Sugar Affects the BrainHow to Biohack Your Cells to Fight CancerHow to Choose a SunscreenHow to Eradicate a DiseaseHow to Help a Friend Suffering from DepressionHow X-rays See Through Your SkinHow to Grow a BoneHow to Practice EffectivelyHow Your Immune System WorksHow Your Muscular System WorksIs It Bad to Hold Your Pee?Is Marijuana Bad for Your Brain?Is Radiation Dangerous?Lead and the BrainThe Mysterious Science of PainThe Neuroscience of Pokemon GoProtecting the Brain Against ConcussionSickle Cell DiseaseThe Surprising Cause of Stomach UlcersThe Surprising Reason Muscles Get TiredThe Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When You’re SickThe Tortuous History of the Treadmill23 and 1/2 HoursYour Body vs. Implants What Are Carbohydrates?What Are Those Floaty Things in Your Eyes?What Causes AddictionWhat Causes Antibiotic Resistance?What Causes Bad Breath?What Causes Baldness?What Causes Body Odor?What Causes Cavities?What Causes Headaches?What Causes Kidney Stones?What Causes Memory Loss?What Did Dogs Teach Humans About Diabetes?What Does Your Thyroid Do?What Happens During a Heart Attack?What Happens During a Stroke?What Happens When You Get Heat Stroke?What Happens When You Have a Concussion?What Herpes Can Do to Your BrainWhat Is a Calorie?What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?What Is Depression? What is Ebola?What Is Fat?What Is It Like to Have Tourette’s—and How Music Gives Me Back Control?What’s the Big Deal with Gluten?What Is the Menstrual Cycle?What Is Narcissism?What Is Obesity?What Makes Muscles GrowWhat Would Happen If You Didn’t Drink Water?What Would Happen If You Didn’t Sleep?Why Do Blood Types Matter?Why Do Our Joints Pop?Why Do We Age?Why Do We Dream?Why Do We Hiccup?Why Do We Itch?Who Do We Make Irrational Decisions?Why Do We Pass Gas?Why Do We Sweat?Why Do Women Have Periods?Why Do You Need to Get a Flu Shot Every Year?Why Is Being Scared So Fun?Why Is the Human Body Asymmetrical?Why Is Meningitis So Dangerous? Why Is It So Hard to Cure ALS?Why Is It So Hard to Cure Cancer?Why It’s So Hard to Cure HIV/AIDSWhy Sitting Is Bad for YouWhy Some People Have Seasonal AllergiesThe World’s Most Infectious KillerYour Body vs. Implants Psychology Do Politics Make Us Irrational? Sciences The 2,400-year Search for the Atom (History of Atomic Theory)ABCs of GasThe Accident That Changed the World (Discovery of Penicillin)Activation Energy: Kickstarting Chemical ReactionsThe Amazing Ways Plants Defend ThemselvesAtoms from A to Easy!An Athlete Uses Physics to Shatter World RecordsAre GMOs Good or Bad?Are Naked Mole Rats the Strangest Mammals?Are We Running Out of Clean Water?Attack of the Killer AlgaeAt What Moment Are You Dead?A Baffling Balloon BehaviorBiodiesel: The Afterlife of OilBiofuels and Bioprospecting for BeginnersBirth of the LightsaberThe Brilliance of BioluminescenceCalculating the Odds of Intelligent Alien LifeCan Animals Adapt to Climate Change?Can a Black Hole Be Destroyed?The Cancer Gene We All HaveCan 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?Cannibalism in the Animal KingdomCan Plants Communicate?Can You Survive Nuclear Fallout?The Carbon CycleCarl Sagan on the Existence of ExtraterrestrialsThe Case of the Vanishing HoneybeesCell Membranes: Are They More Complicated Than You Think?Cell vs. Virus: A Battle for HealthThe Challenges of Nuclear PowerClimate Change: Earth’s Giant Game of TetrisCloudy Climate Change: How Clouds affect Earth’s TemperatureThe Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a FishThe Colossal Consequences of SupervolcanoesThe Complicated Journey of Marine Plastic PollutionConserving Our Spectacular, Vulnerable Coral ReefsCoral Reefs Aren’t as Doomed as You ThinkCould a Blind Eye Regenerate?Could the Earth Be Swallowed by a Back Hole?Could Human Civilization Spread Across the Whole Galaxy?Could You Survive 2.5 Million Years Ago? Could Underwater Farms Help Fight Climate Change?Could We Create Dark Matter?Could We Survive in Outer Space?Crazy Pool VortexCreatures of the DeepDark Matter: The Matter We Can’t SeeDead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food ChainThe Death of Bees ExplainedThe Death of the UniverseDescribing the Invisible Properties of GasDiagnosing a Zombie: Brain and BehaviorDiagnosing a Zombie: Brain and BodyDisappearing FrogsDNA: The Book of YouThe Dramatic Origins of Germ TheoryThe Dust Bunnies That Built Our PlanetEinstein’s Brilliant Mistake: Entangled StatesEinstein’s Twin Paradox ExplainedEinstein’s Miracle YearElectric VocabularyEli the Eel: A Mysterious MigrationEndocrine System – Part 1 (How Hormones Work)The Fascinating Science of Phantom LimbsFinding Habitable WorldsThe First Asteroid Ever DiscoveredFive Ways Social Media Is Changing Your BrainFootball Physics: The “Impossible” Free KickFour Ways to Understand the Earth’s AgeA 40-year Plan for EnergyFree Falling in Outer SpaceFresh Water Scarcity: An Introduction to the ProblemFrom DNA to Silly Putty, the Diverse World of PolymersFrom Outer Space to Under Our Skin: A Look at the UniverseFrom the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our WorldThe Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 1The Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 2The Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 3The Genius of Marie CurieThe Genius of Mendeleev’s Periodic TableGravity and the Human BodyA Guide to the Energy of the EarthHawking’s Black Hole Paradox ExplainedThe Hidden Beauty of PollinationThe Higgs Field, ExplainedThe History of the BarometerHow Bacteria “Talk”How Batteries WorkHow Big Is the Ocean? How Brain Parasites Change Their Host’s BehaviorHow Breathing WorksHow the Choices You Make Affect Your GenesHow Clouds Were NamedHow Cosmic Rays Help Us Understand the UniverseHow CRISPR Lets You Edit DNAHow Deep Is the Ocean?How Did Feathers Evolve?How Do Animals See in the Dark?How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?How Do Crystals Work?How Does an Atom-smashing Particle Accelerator Work?How Does Cancer Spread?How Does Fracking Work?How Does Hibernation Work?How Does Work . . . Work?How Does Your Brain Respond to Pain?How Do Fish Make Electricity?How Do Germs Spread (and Why Do They Make Us Sick)?How Do Nerves Work?How Do Schools of Fish Swim in Harmony?How Do Solar Panels Work?How Do Tornadoes Form?How Do We Extract Raw Materials from Nature?How Do We Separate the Seemingly Inseparable?How Do We Smell?How Do We Study Living Brains?How Do We Study the Stars?How Do Wounds Heal?How Far Would You Have to Go to Escape Gravity?How Fast Are You Moving Right Now?How Folding a Paper Can Get You to the MoonHow Giant Sea Creatures Eat Tiny Sea CreaturesHow Heavy Is Air?How Inventions Change History (for Better and for Worse)How I Teach Kids to Love ScienceHow Levers WorkHow Life Begins in the Deep OceanHow Long Will Human Impacts Last?How Many Universes Are There?How Memories Form and Why We Lose ThemHow Mendel’s Pea Plants Helped Us Understand GeneticsHow Microbes Form CommunitiesHow Oceanographers Found the TitanicHow Oxygen Travels Through Your BodyHow Optical Illusions Trick Your BrainHow Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe? How Smart Are Dolphins?How Pandemics SpreadHow Plants Tell TimeHow Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific DiscoveriesHow Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?How Smart Are Orangutans?How Spontaneous Brain Activity Keeps You AliveHow Squids Outsmart Their PredatorsHow Sugar Affects the BrainHow to Biohack Your Cells and Fight CancerHow to Build a Dark Matter DetectorHow to Create Cleaner CoalHow to Detect a SupernovaHow to Eradicate a DiseaseHow to Fly Around the World Without FuelHow to Grow a GlacierHow to Sequence the Human GenomeHow to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (and Get a Date)How to Squeeze Electricity Out of CrystalsHow Squids Outsmart their PredatorsHow Tornadoes FormHow to Track a TornadoHow Tsunamis WorkHow Turtle Shells EvolvedHow We See ColorHow Whales Breathe, Communicate . . . and Fart with Their FacesHow X-rays See Through Your SkinHumans Are More See-Through Than They LookIf Matter Falls Down, Does Antimatter Fall Up?If Molecules Were PeopleIf Superpowers Were Real: Body MassIf Superpowers Were Real: FlightIf Superpowers Were Real: ImmortalityIf Superpowers Were Real: InvisibilityIf Superpowers Were Real: Super SpeedIf Superpowers Were Real: Super StrengthThe Immortal Cells of Henrietta LacksThe Incredible Collaboration Behind the International Space StationThe Insanely Painful Sting of the Bullet AntInside the Amazing Octopus BrainInside the Ant ColonyInside the Minds of AnimalsInsights into Cell Membranes Via Dish DetergentInvasive SpeciesThe Invisible Motion of Still ObjectsIs DNA the Future of Data Storage?Is Fire a Solid, Liquid, or Gas?Is Light a Particle or a Wave?Is Space Trying to Kill Us?Is Telekinesis Real?Is There a Center of the Universe?Is Time Travel Possible?The Journey to Pluto, the Farthest World Ever Explored Just How Small Is an Atom?The Life Cycle of a Neutron StarThe Life Cycle of a Plastic BottleLight Seconds, Light Years, Light Centuries: How to Measure Extreme DistancesLight Waves, Visible and InvisibleLiving with Less WaterThe Loathsome, Lethal MosquitoThe Lovable (and Lethal) Sea LionMagical Metals, How Shape Memory Alloys WorkMammoths vs. MastodonsMeet the Frog That Barfs Up Its BabiesMeet the Tardigrade, the Toughest Animal on EarthThe Moon IllusionThe Most Groundbreaking Scientist You’ve Never Heard ofThe Most Lightening-Struck Place on EarthThe Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasseThe Most Lightning Struck Place on EarthThe Most Radioactive Places on EarthMy Glacier Cave DiscoveriesNature’s Smallest Factory: The Calvin CycleA Needle in Countless Haystacks: Finding Habitable WorldsThe Neuroscience of Pokemon GoNewton’s 3 Laws, with a BicycleThe Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination (Plastics in the Ocean)Origins of GoldThe Pangaea Pop-upParasite Tales: The Jewel Wasp’s Zombie SlavePavlovian Reactions Aren’t Just for DogsPenguins: Popularity, Peril and PoopThe Physics of the “Hardest Move” in BalletThe Physics of SurfingPoison vs. Venom: What’s the Difference?Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on the BodyThe Race to Sequence the Human GenomeRadioactivity: Expect the Unexpected A Rare, Spectacular Total Eclipse of the SunReasons for the SeasonsRNAi: Slicing, Dicing and Serving Your CellsRosalind Franklin: DNAs Unsung HeroSally Ride on Dumb QuestionsThe Science of SkinThe Science of Skin ColorThe Science of SmogThe Science of SymmetryThe Secret Language of TreesThe Secret Life of PlanktonThe Secret Powers of JellyfishThe Secrets of the X ChromosomeThe Secret to Rising Sea Levels Separation Techniques and Why They MatterSeven Ocean MysteriesSex Determination: More Complicated Than You ThoughtShould We Eat Bugs?Should We Look for Life Elsewhere in the Universe?The Single-Celled Organism That Almost Wiped Out Life on EarthThe Standard Model of Particle PhysicsSolving the Puzzle of the Periodic TableThe Sonic Boom ProblemThe Strengths and Weaknesses of Acids and BasesSunlight Is Way Older Than You ThinkThe Sun’s Surprising Movement Across the SkyThe Surprising Effects of RewildingThe Surprising (and Invisible) Signatures of Sea CreaturesThe Surprising Reasons Animals Play DeadThe Survival of the Sea TurtleSymbiosis: A Surprising Tale of Species CooperationSynesthesia (Note: It’s the combination of two or more senses.)Theory vs. Law: What’s the DifferenceThree Different Ways Mammals Give BirthThree Planets That Shouldn’t ExistThis Is Your Brain on PainThree Different Ways Animals Give BirthThree Ways to Destroy the UniverseTurbulence: One of the Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of PhysicsTwisting Tale of DNAA Vanishing Island off the Louisiana Coast (Climate Change)Visualizing Hidden Worlds Inside Your BodyVultures: Heroes of the EcosystemThe Wacky Story of Cell TheoryThe Weird and Wonderful Metamorphosis of a ButterflyThe Weird, Wonderful World of BioluminescenceWhat Is Dark MatterWhat Are Gravitational WavesWhat Are Meteors?What Are Mini Brains?What Are the Odds of Finding Intelligent Alien Life?What Causes a Solar Eclipse?What Happened to Antimatter?What Happens When Continents Collide?What If the Earth Stopped Spinning?What If We Could Look Inside Human Brains?What Is an Aurora?What Is the Biggest Single-Celled Organism?What Is the Coldest Thing in the World?What Is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?What Is Entropy?What Is a Fungus? What Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?What Is Invisible? More Than You ThinkWhat Is Metallic Glass?What Is Plasma?What Is the Shape of a Molecule? What Is the Universe Made of?What Is Work? (Understanding Physical Laws)What Light Can Teach Us About the UniverseWhat Outer Space Does to Your BodyWhat Percentage of Your Brain Do You Use?What Would Happen If Every Human Suddenly Disappeared?What Would Happen If the World Went Vegetarian?What Would It Be Like to Live on the Moon?What’s Wrong with Our Food SystemWhat You Can Learn from an Ancient SkeletonWhen Is Water Safe to Drink?When Will the Next Ice Age Happen?When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?Where Does Gold Come From?Where Do Genes Come From?Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?Where We Get Our Fresh WaterWhich Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?Who Won the Space Race?Why Are Blue Whales So Enormous?Why Are Earthquakes So Hard to Predict?Why Are Fish Fish-Shaped?Why Aren’t We Only Using Solar Power?Why Are Sharks So Awesome?Why Are Sloths So Slow?Why Are Some People Left-handed?Why Are There So Many Insects?Why Be Skeptical? (of Scientific Studies)Why Can’t We See Evidence of Alien Life?Why Do Animals Form Swarms?Why Doesn’t Anything Stick to Teflon?Why Does the Sun Really Shine?Why Do Humans Have a Third Eyelid?Why Do Mirrors Flip Vertically but Not Horizontally?Why Don’t Ants Get Stuck in Traffic?Why Don’t Perpetual Motion Machines Ever Work?Why Do We Age?Why Do We Cry? The Three Types of TearsWhy Do We Harvest Horseshoe Crab Blood?Why Do We Pass Gas?Why Do We Wrinkle When Wet?Why Do Whales Sing?Why Is Cotton in Everything?Why Is Glass Transparent? 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