9 of the coolest educational videos from TED-Ed. By Lauren Granger on 30 April, 2012 398 Share When TED launched its educational website for younger students last week, I think teachers everywhere realised they had to up their game. The 3-10 minute videos are designed to encourage curiosity and show how the world works using compelling animation and the audible explanations of a gifted teacher.
Even if you’re not in high school, the videos are sometimes fascinating, sometimes kinda strange, but generally very cool. Here are some of the best videos that are designed to amaze and challenge your brain. How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries How can you not wish that Mythbusters’ Adam Savage was your science teacher? Just How Small is an Atom? Ok, so this one is kind of brain-warping.
The Cockroach Beatbox If you can get past the part where neuroscientist Greg Gage dismembers a cockroach, you will never forget how electrical energy moves your limbs ever again. How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon. Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life. Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves.
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory. Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce. Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk". VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization. Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds.