https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdY9KXF_Sg 10th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It’s official: you’ve got the flu. It’s logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMriWTvPXHI 9th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: Pascal’s triangle, which at first may just look like a neatly arranged stack of numbers, is actually a mathematical treasure trove. But what about it has so intrigued mathematicians the world over? Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi shows how Pascal's triangle is full...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeSuQm7KfaE 8th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: Geckos aren’t covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortlessly scale vertical walls and hang from ceilings. What’s going on? Eleanor Nelsen explains how geckos’ phenomenal feet allow them to defy gravity. View full lesson: How do...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S6e11NBwiw 7th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: Everything in our universe has mass — from the smallest atom to the largest star. But the amount of mass has remained constant throughout existence even during the birth and death of stars, planets and you. How can the universe grow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7kAt97XYU 6th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: Imagine you swallowed a small bird and suddenly gained the ability to fly … or you ate a cobra and were able to spit poisonous venom! Well, throughout the history of life (and specifically during the evolution of complex eukaryotic cells)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDo7saKaEys 5th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: As the Earth’s surface temperature gradually rises, it has become vital for us to predict the rate of this increase with as much precision as possible. In order to do that, scientists need to understand more about aerosols and clouds. Jasper...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbWx2COU0E 4th TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: When you think about Einstein and physics, E=mc^2 is probably the first thing that comes to mind. But one of his greatest contributions to the field actually came in the form of an odd philosophical footnote in a 1935 paper he...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaAxUO6-Uw 3rd TED-ED – TAW coproduction Synopsis: Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKELOE9eY4&t=1s 2nd TED-ED - TAW coproduction Synopsis: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. Chad...
https://youtu.be/Hk3fgjHNQ2Q 1st TED-ED - TAW coproduction Synopsis: One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling...