Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
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When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
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An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
These Countries Are Cheating
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By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.
The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars
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The universe isn't just a vast empty ocean sprinkled with galaxies – most of the atoms are actually drifting in between, in the intergalactic medium.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
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Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth.
YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis
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There’s a tsunami of science spam on YouTube. Why does it all look the same? How much harm does it do? Do not watch these low-effort, AI-generated, cash grabs.
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Science can’t stop aging, but it may be able to slow our epigenetic clocks.
Burn Your Waste With... Water?
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Supercritical water produces fire without flames, which is great for making clean drinking water from our waste in space or breaking down forever chemicals here on Earth.
Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Invention Ever
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Lightbulbs might be the best idea ever – just not for light.
Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is
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You probably have a bag of frozen corn in your freezer, or have chowed down on a buttery ear of corn at a cookout.
The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT
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Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.
The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity
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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
How to Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs
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In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years (which is insanely long in internet years).
Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
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Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.
You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse
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The lab mice we use for genetic studies are not only closely related, but live out their whole lives in a sterile environment, so they don’t tell us everything we need to know about actual humans.
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The universe is magnificent and vast. Hundreds of billions of galaxies, trillions of stars, and even more planets. If even the tiniest fraction are habitable, then the Universe should be teeming with life. And yet we see nothing, only vast emptiness. Where is everyone else?
How Your Immune System Works
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Today, we are finding out how your immune system works through a science experiment!
How to master your sense of smell
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Some perfumers can distinguish individual odors in a fragrance made of hundreds of scents; tea-experts have been known to sniff out the exact location of a particular tea; and the NYC Transit Authority once had a employee responsible only for sniffing out gas leaks.
How Quantum Computers Break The Internet
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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.
World's Strongest Magnet!
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The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.
Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think
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There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all experienced this.