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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-difference-between-art-and-craft-laura-morelli

Uploaded 06-03-14

Was da Vinci an artistic genius? Sure, but he was also born in the right place at the right time -- pre-Renaissance, Western artists got little individual credit for their work. And in many non-Western cultures, traditional forms have always been prized over innovation. So, where do we get our notions of art vs. craft? Laura Morelli traces the history of how we assign value to the visual arts.

Lesson by Laura Morelli, animation by Sandro Katamashvili.



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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-study-the-stars-yuan-sen-ting

Uploaded 07-10-14

Our best technology can send men to the Moon and probes to the edge of our solar system, but these distances are vanishingly small compared to the size of the universe. How then can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? Yuan-Sen Ting takes us into deep space to show how astronomers study the stars beyond our reach.

Lesson by Yuan-Sen Ting, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.



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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/martin-seligman-on-positive-psychology

Uploaded 06-07-13

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

Talk by Martin Seligman.



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Explore how sperm whales use an array of complex vocalizations to communicate with each other, hunt, and assess their surroundings.

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Soon after whaling ships began operating in the North Pacific, an interesting trend emerged. Within just a few years, whalers saw a 58% drop in their successful strikes. Sperm whales had suddenly become harder to kill— they had begun fleeing the boats instead of forming their usual defensive circles. Were whales communicating new strategies to each other? David Gruber and Shane Gero investigate.

Lesson by David Gruber and Shane Gero, directed by Anna Benner.

The recordings of whale codas included in this video were courtesy of Project CETI. Learn more about the initiative here: https://www.audaciousproject.org/grantees/project-ceti

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Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news.

Uploaded 30-08-13

Talk by John McWhorter.



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Uncover the most common misperceptions about dodos, and find out the truth of how the flightless birds actually went extinct.

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Dodos are commonly considered brainless, blundering birds that were poorly adapted and doomed to die off, making their human-mediated extinction effortless and inevitable. But that’s not the case. So, what were dodos actually like? And what really caused their downfall? Leon Claessens uncovers the truth about these misunderstood and maligned creatures.

Lesson by Leon Claessens, directed by Denys Spolitak.

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Discover what led American colonists in 1773 to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party.

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Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of "taxation without representation", reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben Labaree gets into the nitty-gritty of that famous revolutionary act.

Lesson by Ben Labaree, animation by Nick Fox-Gieg Animation.

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-lost-art-of-democratic-debate-michael-sandel

Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in justice.

Talk by Michael Sandel.

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/building-a-museum-of-museums-on-the-web-amit-sood

Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that.

Talk by Amit Sood.

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/making-a-ted-ed-lesson-synesthesia-and-playing-cards

Uploaded 07-07-13

How can a pack of playing cards accurately explain the complicated and nuanced neurological condition, synesthesia? TED-Ed animators explain the process of creating an original animation from planning (storyboard and animatic) to fruition, including the special secrets behind this animation (think playdough and green screens).



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