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A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Animation.

Video playlists about Animation

5 questions about climate change

In the scope of Countdown, TED's initiative to accelerate solutions to climate change, the TED team collaborated with scientists and the creative studio Giant Ant to prepare five short animations explaining concepts and answering important questions related to the climate. They are narrated by Kristen Bell. Learn more about Countdown at countdown.ted.com.

Talks about Animation

What toys have kids played with throughout history?

Stephanie H. Smith

The incredible engineering of Venice

Charles Rupprecht

Why is getting bitten by a rabid animal so dangerous?

Iseult Gillespie

You’re invited to the masquerade. Do you dare attend?

The missing ingredient in how we learn

Arianna Soldati

Why Iceland's lava is so hard to control

Theodore E. Yeshion

How did detectives solve the case of the bloody motel?

The fascinating reason you loved peek-a-boo

Arika Okrent

3 grammar rules that you don’t need to follow anymore

Gladys Mac

Why was this kung fu masterpiece banned?

Why kids need to take more risks

Noah Charney

What is "The Thinker" actually thinking about?

Do imaginary friends make you smarter?

Niko Zlotnik

How do snakes swallow animals so much bigger than they are?

Stephanie H. Smith

The haunting history of the Paris Catacombs

Vivian Jiang

What happens if you eat a silica gel packet?

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Exclusive articles about Animation

Watch: A cellular biologist animates the life cycle of HIV in this hypnotic video

While the musical soundtrack is wholly a product of the imagination, everything else in this spellbinding animation of the HIV virus -- created by Janet Iwasa -- is based on the findings of researchers.

Posted Apr 2018

11 must-see lessons from TED-Ed

Short animated lessons you'll love, from atomic structure to the science of stage fright (and how to overcome it).

Posted Sep 2014

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