Beginner Lessons

Design for people, not awards - Timothy Prestero

What's your 200-year plan? - Raghava KK

What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu? - Michael Molina

The Higgs Field, explained - Don Lincoln

The 3 A's of awesome - Neil Pasricha

Gaming for understanding - Brenda Brathwaite

Fighting a contagious cancer - Elizabeth Murchison

Hire the hackers! - Misha Glenny

What we learn before we're born - Annie Murphy Paul

Learning from a barefoot movement - Bunker Roy

Meet the Water Canary - Sonaar Luthra

Praising slowness - Carl Honore

Inside the Egyptian revolution - Wael Ghonim

The terrors of sleep paralysis - Ami Angelowicz

What is chemical equilibrium? - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

What creates a total solar eclipse? - Andy Cohen

A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter

Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid, and sandpaper - Mary Koga

What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

Animation basics: The optical illusion of motion - TED-Ed

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle

The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl

Comma story - Terisa Folaron

What is an aurora? - Michael Molina

Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens

Mysteries of vernacular: Gorgeous - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

What we're learning from online education - Daphne Koller

Science is for everyone, kids included - Beau Lotto and Amy O'Toole

What is fat? - George Zaidan

What's an algorithm? - David J. Malan

Excuse me, may I rent your car? - Robin Chase

Animation basics: Homemade special effects - TED-Ed

Biofuels and bioprospecting for beginners - Craig A. Kohn

Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals - David Anderson

Weaving narratives in museum galleries - Thomas P. Campbell