Image: cave drawings

12 minutes

[ Culture ]

Embracing a Language that Brings Us Closer 🙂

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You’ve probably shared a few of these in your messages if you’ve communicated through technology in the past decade, but could emotion depicting icons have an even longer history than we assume? And where could these emojis bring the human race in the future? Jenna Schilstra discusses this on the TED stage.

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6 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Plants Can Talk to Each Other?

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It isn’t crazy science fiction, in fact, plants are able to communicate to warn each other of danger. You might not smell a freshly mown lawn the same again! Jump into this lovely TED Ed video and find out just how this works!

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Image: cartoon of how Bacteria communicate

21 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Can Bacteria Talk to Each Other?

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Can single-celled organisms like bacteria communicate, or are they blindly moving through their lifespan, like tiny organic machines? Princeton University’s Bonnie Bassler has a fascinating answer.

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16 minutes

[ Animals ]

Communicating with WILD Dolphins

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Imagine what it would really be like to understand the mind and communicate with another intelligent species on the planet. Dolphins may be the first.

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