TED-Ed

Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes

Why were there three popes at the same time? - Joëlle Rollo-Koster

What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert

Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie

Self-assembly: The power of organizing the unorganized - Skylar Tibbits

How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin

Why do our bodies age? - Monica Menesini

The language of lying — Noah Zandan

What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy

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

How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten

The surprising effects of pregnancy

Light waves, visible and invisible

How pandemics spread

How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann

Logarithms, Explained - Steve Kelly

Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? - Sheila Marie Orfano

What happened to antimatter? - Rolf Landua

How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan

How to master your sense of smell - Alexandra Horowitz

Using radioactive drugs to see inside your body - Pedro Brugarolas

What happens to your body at the top of Mount Everest - Andrew Lovering

Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie

How does the stock market work? - Oliver Elfenbaum

What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner

How tall can a tree grow? - Valentin Hammoudi

The sleep disorder you might not know you have - Alayna Vaughan

How does an atom-smashing particle accelerator work? - Don Lincoln

Inside a cartoonist's world - Liza Donnelly

Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler

How Sun Wukong escaped the underworld - Shunan Teng

Why do we hiccup? - John Cameron

Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç

Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed

What do dumplings look like around the world?- Miranda Brown

Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf

Why eyewitnesses get it wrong - Scott Fraser

The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree

How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built - Alex Gendler

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García

Why are beavers obsessed with dams? - Glynnis Hood

How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F de Freitas

How does whale communication work? - David Gruber and Shane Gero

Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams

A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King

How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas

What triggers a chemical reaction? - Kareem Jarrah

A choreographer's creative process in real time - Wayne McGregor

Poison vs. venom: What's the difference? - Rose Eveleth

How do contraceptives work? - NWHunter