TED-Ed

What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them? – Cindy J. Aaronson

How do ocean currents work? – Jennifer Verduin

Is our universe the only universe? – Brian Greene

Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? – Dan Finkel

What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia – Richard E. Cytowic

The poet who painted with his words – Geneviève Emy

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry – Skye C. Cleary

Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? – Alex Rosenthal

A brief history of cannibalism – Bill Schutt

Sunlight is way older than you think – Sten Odenwald

Big Data – Tim Smith

Why do we dream? – Amy Adkins

Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? – Julian Burschka

How blood pressure works – Wilfred Manzano

How can you change someone’s mind? (hint: facts aren’t always enough) – Hugo Mercier

Why wasn’t the Bill of Rights originally in the US Constitution? – James Coll

What makes something “Kafkaesque”? – Noah Tavlin

Are we living in a simulation? – Zohreh Davoudi

This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait – Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan

The myth of Hades and Persephone – Iseult Gillespie

Can you solve the frog riddle? – Derek Abbott

What’s the difference between accuracy and precision? – Matt Anticole

How to grow a glacier – M Jackson

The mathematics of sidewalk illusions – Fumiko Futamura

Can you solve the egg drop riddle? – Yossi Elran

Why do people join cults? – Janja Lalich

Axolotls: The salamanders that snack on each other (but don’t die) – Luis Zambrano

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem – Marcus du Sautoy

What few people know about the program that “saved” America – Meg Jacobs

Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”? – Alex Gendler

Why do animals form swarms? – Maria R. D’Orsogna

Why did the US try to kill all the bison? – Andrew C. Isenberg

The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii – Sydney Iaukea

How to recognize a dystopia – Alex Gendler

Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem – Christiana Z. Peppard

Why do your knuckles pop? – Eleanor Nelsen

Why did Megalodon go extinct? – Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento

How to see with sound – Jacques S. Abramowicz

How does caffeine keep us awake? – Hanan Qasim

Everything you need to know to read “Frankenstein” – Iseult Gillespie