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Francis de los Reyes
A brief history of toilets
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TED-Ed
Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death -- and how to rescue them
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Jacques S. Abramowicz
How does ultrasound work?
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TED-Ed
How much land does it take to power the world?
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Briana Brownell
How does artificial intelligence learn?
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TED-Ed
How much electricity does it take to power the world?
5:06
TED-Ed
The material that could change the world ... for a third time
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TED-Ed
The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery
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Dan Goods
How NASA invented a ventilator for COVID-19 ... in 37 days
5:19
Fabio Pacucci
Could we harness the power of a black hole?
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Soraya Field Fiorio
The rise and fall of history's first empire
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Brent Loken
Can we create the "perfect" farm?
4:57
Hyunsoo Joshua No
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TED-Ed
A brief history of plastic
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Alex Gendler
How do ventilators work?
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Michael Levin
The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life
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Stefan Al
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Gerry Wright
How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
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Matt Porter and Margaret Hamilton
NASA's first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton
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Bill Schutt
How do blood transfusions work?
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Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu
The accident that changed the world
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Melody Smith
How bones make blood
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Jan Bill
What was so special about Viking ships?
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Hyunsoo Joshua No
How does chemotherapy work?
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Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin
Tiny robots with giant potential
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Ipsita Dasgupta
To challenge the status quo, find a "co-conspirator"
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Chiara Decaroli
The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work
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Suzanne Lee
Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution
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Melvin Sanicas
What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?
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Kaitlyn Sadtler
Your body vs. implants
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis
Underwater farms vs. climate change
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Philip A. Chan
How close are we to eradicating HIV?
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Sajan Saini
How light technology is changing medicine
16:31
Craig Costello
In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?
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Sajan Saini
How do self-driving cars "see"?
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Silvia Moreno-García
Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
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