{"id":646902,"date":"2013-03-14T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72952"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:48:47","slug":"the-10-most-popular-ted-ed-lessons-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646902","title":{"rendered":"The 10 most popular TED-Ed lessons so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/how-simple-ideas-lead-to-scientific-discoveries\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72954\" alt=\"A still from the most-viewed TED-Ed lesson so far\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ted-eds-top-lesson.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/a>The TED-Ed team is excited to have just passed our one-year mark &#8212; we launched our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TEDEducation\">YouTube Channel<\/a> on March 12, 2012. And what a year it has been!\u00a0In 365 days, we have published more than 100\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0Ehrg3meytY7DT8LJiwuU3Th&amp;feature=view_all\">TED-Ed Originals<\/a> plus nearly 100 TED Talks, totaling more than 16 million views. And we have almost 100 additional projects in production as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone would not be possible without the brilliant educators and talented animators who have contributed to the TED-Ed initiative, making curiosity-inspiring Lessons available to people all around the globe. These collaborators have\u00a0put great efforts &#8212; and many late hours &#8212; into each Lesson. And it shows.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of our first birthday, we\u2019d like to celebrate our top 10 most-watched videos so far, on topics ranging from chemistry to Shakespeare to origami.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/how-simple-ideas-lead-to-scientific-discoveries\">How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries<\/a> by Adam Savage: 969,931 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/questions-no-one-knows-the-answers-to\">Questions no one knows the answer to<\/a> from Chris Anderson: 889,724 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/sex-determination-more-complicated-than-you-thought\">Sex determination: More complicated than you thought<\/a> courtesy of Aaron Reedy: 889,022 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/just-how-small-is-an-atom\">Just how small is an atom?<\/a> asks Jonathan Bergmann: 763,982 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/what-s-invisible-more-than-you-think-john-lloyd\">What\u2019s invisible? More than you think<\/a> by John Lloyd: 531,415 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/how-big-is-infinity\">How big is infinity?<\/a> from Dennis Wildfogel: 507,805 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/why-can-t-we-see-evidence-of-alien-life\">Why can\u2019t we see evidence of alien life?<\/a> asks Chris Anderson: 469,687 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/how-life-begins-in-the-deep-ocean\">The secret life of plankton<\/a> by Tierney Thys: 428,630 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/insults-by-shakespeare\">Insults by Shakespeare<\/a> courtesy of April Gudenrath: 402, 630 views<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/how-folding-paper-can-get-you-to-the-moon\">How folding paper can get you to the moon<\/a> from Adrian Paenza: 401,127 views<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here\u2019s to ten more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/\">Check out the TED-Ed blog \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72952\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=72952&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/kkDmBmxIQNk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TED-Ed team is excited to have just passed our one-year mark &#8212; we launched our YouTube Channel on March 12, 2012. And what a year it has been!\u00a0In 365 days, we have published more than 100\u00a0TED-Ed Originals plus nearly 100 TED Talks, totaling more than 16 million views. And we have almost 100 additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}