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The Science Delusion: What Happens When Science Stops Asking Questions

The Science Delusion: What Happens When Science...

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In 2013, TED removed a talk from its channel. The speaker was a Cambridge-trained biologist and former Research Fellow of the Royal Society. What he said was uncomfortable enough that...

The Science Delusion: What Happens When Science...

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In 2013, TED removed a talk from its channel. The speaker was a Cambridge-trained biologist and former Research Fellow of the Royal Society. What he said was uncomfortable enough that...

Believable or Not? The Magus of Java, and the Hard Work of Saying Why

Believable or Not? The Magus of Java, and the H...

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In 1988 a BBC crew filmed a healer in Java setting paper alight with his hand, driving a chopstick through a table, and shocking people with a touch. Then he...

Believable or Not? The Magus of Java, and the H...

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In 1988 a BBC crew filmed a healer in Java setting paper alight with his hand, driving a chopstick through a table, and shocking people with a touch. Then he...

Overtoun Bridge, Dumbarton, Scotland, on the approach to Overtoun House

What Dogs Know: Cancer at One Part Per Trillion...

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A dog can smell a cancer that nobody has diagnosed yet — roughly one part per trillion, a tenth of a drop in two swimming pools. That part is in...

What Dogs Know: Cancer at One Part Per Trillion...

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A dog can smell a cancer that nobody has diagnosed yet — roughly one part per trillion, a tenth of a drop in two swimming pools. That part is in...

The Greatest Story Never Told? The Old World, Mud Floods, World's Fairs & the History We Inherited

The Greatest Story Never Told? The Old World, M...

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What if some of the magnificent cities photographed in the 1800s were not entirely built by the people we see standing in front of them? From the Crystal Palace and...

The Greatest Story Never Told? The Old World, M...

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What if some of the magnificent cities photographed in the 1800s were not entirely built by the people we see standing in front of them? From the Crystal Palace and...

The Village That Fed Me

The Village That Fed Me

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A tuk-tuk driver took me to his village in Svay Rieng. There was a dirt floor, a borrowed bed with chickens under it, a frog boiled over a fire —...

The Village That Fed Me

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A tuk-tuk driver took me to his village in Svay Rieng. There was a dirt floor, a borrowed bed with chickens under it, a frog boiled over a fire —...

Screened Out at Home

Screened Out at Home

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New Brunswick runs a government hiring programme for people not born in New Brunswick. It runs a documented pathway into the classroom for Red Seal tradespeople. I was born there,...

Screened Out at Home

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New Brunswick runs a government hiring programme for people not born in New Brunswick. It runs a documented pathway into the classroom for Red Seal tradespeople. I was born there,...

The Quiet Genius of Mister Rogers

The Quiet Genius of Mister Rogers

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A teacher's love letter to Fred Rogers — and a practical guide for parents and educators. Behind the cardigan was a rigorous mind: the child psychology of Margaret McFarland, the...

The Quiet Genius of Mister Rogers

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A teacher's love letter to Fred Rogers — and a practical guide for parents and educators. Behind the cardigan was a rigorous mind: the child psychology of Margaret McFarland, the...

Snail and the Slow, Slow Trail

Snail and the Slow, Slow Trail

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A soft-hearted little snail is always last... until a rainy day proves that going slow is exactly how she sees — and saves — what everyone else raced past. An...

Snail and the Slow, Slow Trail

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A soft-hearted little snail is always last... until a rainy day proves that going slow is exactly how she sees — and saves — what everyone else raced past. An...

Bat, Not Ba: A Story About Finishing Your Words

Bat, Not Ba: A Story About Finishing Your Words

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Deep in the forest lives a little bat named Bat. But nobody everhears the end of her name — everyone just says "Ba"! A kind oldBeaver helps her learn to...

Bat, Not Ba: A Story About Finishing Your Words

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Deep in the forest lives a little bat named Bat. But nobody everhears the end of her name — everyone just says "Ba"! A kind oldBeaver helps her learn to...

The Fox Wizard

The Fox Wizard

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Beyond the Blue Mountains, beside the Whispering River, a hardworking Beaver builds a home and helps young animals learn to read. Then a charming Fox in starry robes knocks at...

The Fox Wizard

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Beyond the Blue Mountains, beside the Whispering River, a hardworking Beaver builds a home and helps young animals learn to read. Then a charming Fox in starry robes knocks at...

I Agree: The Two Smallest Words in English

I Agree — And What Those Two Words Actually Cos...

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There is a drone you can buy that flies better than anything else in the sky. It is not popular because people are foolish. It is popular because it is the...

I Agree — And What Those Two Words Actually Cos...

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There is a drone you can buy that flies better than anything else in the sky. It is not popular because people are foolish. It is popular because it is the...

Your Eyes Can Change What You Hear

Your Eyes Can Change What You Hear

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Watch a short video with your eyes closed, then watch it again with your eyes open. The audio never changes, but the sound you hear does. This is the McGurk...

Your Eyes Can Change What You Hear

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Watch a short video with your eyes closed, then watch it again with your eyes open. The audio never changes, but the sound you hear does. This is the McGurk...

It's Not Illegal Yet — A Free English Lesson on Power, Press & Persuasion

It's Not Illegal Yet — A Free English Lesson on...

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One in five Canadians works for the government. So who writes the unflattering story about the boss? Read the essay, then build your English with two free lessons — vocabulary,...

It's Not Illegal Yet — A Free English Lesson on...

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One in five Canadians works for the government. So who writes the unflattering story about the boss? Read the essay, then build your English with two free lessons — vocabulary,...

The Door Painted on the Wall

The Door Painted on the Wall

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A teacher comes home to a province that swears it needs teachers — and finds the handle won't turn. My account of 400+ applications, a year and a half called...

The Door Painted on the Wall

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A teacher comes home to a province that swears it needs teachers — and finds the handle won't turn. My account of 400+ applications, a year and a half called...