There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things --
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED
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There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things --
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED
There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things --
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED
They weren't using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things. But it's really good for things that don't move around much,
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED
problem for our ultra-social species, because a lot of our evolved bonding mechanisms involve our bodies.
How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED
(Cheers and applause) The world has evolved, and teaching science is long overdue for disruption.
Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED
But I think what we have to keep in keep in mind is that the biological timing system has evolved under the open sky and not in offices or museums.
Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED
memes and blogs, evolved to include content with increasing fidelity as consumer recording devices became more prevalent
What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED
But the good news is that methane monitoring tools have significantly evolved, and scientists have developed newer sensors
The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED
you're faced with this tragedy that the human brain hasn't really evolved to comprehend. It's so abstract.
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
(Applause) ED: So this is the kind of helping that human beings evolved to enjoy, but for 40 years,
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
we're missing out on one of the best parts of being human: that we have evolved to find joy in helping others. Let's stop thinking about giving as just this moral obligation
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
people have very different views of what the big AI risks are going to be. And I myself have like evolved on thinking about where we're going to see those.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
that’s why it happened. And what I realize is that intellectually I had grown and evolved, but emotionally ...
How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED
life on Earth stretches back billions of years. Over that time, life evolved and diversified. Then a few million years ago, something began to shift.
What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED
I disagree with this definition of nature, because, fundamentally, we are animals. Right? Like, we evolved on this planet in the context of all the other animals with which we share a planet,
Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris
Scott didn’t coin the term, but it was probably this use that stuck, and evolved to describe someone who works independently of any single company. That independence seems to make people happy.
What is a gig economy?
the little summer art project evolved into a nonprofit arts organization called the Village of Arts and Humanities.
How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED