Why isn't Hisako Koyama more famous? #shorts // TRAIN BRAIN

Why isn't Hisako Koyama more famous? #shorts

Get to know the story of Hisako Koyama with our animation “The woman who stared at the sun,” written by Alex Gendler and directed by Martina Meštrović. #shorts

TED-Ed

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaboratio...

From enslaved to kingmaker: Malik Ambar’s legendary rise to power - Stephanie Honchell Smith

Do you ever feel isolated amongst your peers? #shorts

3 ways to choose a sunscreen #shorts

3 things you may not know about the Declaration of Independence #shorts

What is Juneteenth, and why is it important? #shorts #juneteenth

Trust the process #shorts

What’s your best guess? #shorts

The Hawaiian story of the king's betrayal - Sydney Iaukea

Are we all just players in the game of life? #shorts

The most important century in human history

What’s your best guess? #shorts

Why isn't Hisako Koyama more famous? #shorts

What’s your best guess? #shorts

Sneak peek at the making of a TED-Ed animation #shorts

We’ve just launched *five* new channels! #shorts

The best way to apologize (according to science)

Lesson 1: What are ideas?

Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge - Alex Gendler

Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? Difficulty level: Master - Alex Rosenthal

The secrets of the world’s most famous symphony - Hanako Sawada

You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) - Kayla Mandel Sheets

Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat

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

The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - Pekka Hāmālāinen

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

The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich - Soraya Field Fiorio

Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes

How we can detect pretty much anything - Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou

Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp - Dan Sayers

Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel

The method that can "prove" almost anything - James A. Smith

What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? - Christopher E. Gaw

Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Venom spurs, duck bills and spiky penises: A year in the life a platypus - Gilad Bino

The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man - Andrew McDonald

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy

How do governments create money out of thin air? - Jonathan Smith

The Bone Wars: The most notorious scientific feud in history - Lukas Rieppel

History's deadliest king - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang

Real-life "Alien" jaws - Darien Satterfield

How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie

Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? - Shravan S K

These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die) - Luis Zambrano

Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy

What few people know about the program that "saved" America - Meg Jacobs

A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes

The sharks that hunt in forests - Luka Seamus Wright

Can you trust your memory? - Sheila Marie Orfano

Ugly History: The U.S. Syphilis Experiment - Susan M. Reverby

A day in the life of the Oracle of Delphi - Mark Robinson

Why do we have hair in such random places? - Nina G. Jablonski

The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death - Soraya Field Fiorio

Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

The woman who stared at the sun - Alex Gendler

Run, sail, or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii - Gary Devore

Can you be awake and asleep at the same time? - Masako Tamaki

What causes migraines? - Marianne Schwarz

Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases? - Greg Foot

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion - Orisanmi Burton

What’s in the air you breathe? - Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper - Alex Gendler

Who decides what’s in the dictionary? - Ilan Stavans

Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea - Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

How long should your naps be? - Sara C. Mednick

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal - Alex Gendler

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? - Dennis E. Shasha

How do wind turbines work? - Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor

How the world’s tallest skyscraper was built - Alex Gendler

The world’s most painful insect sting - Justin Schmidt

Should you be worried about acid rain? - Joseph Goffman

This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death— and how to rescue them

Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

How does ultrasound work? - Jacques S. Abramowicz

We’ve just launched five new channels! #shorts