Have you ever wondered why is the sky blue. Where do dreams come from. Or what pushed prehistoric people to leave their caves.Well, I have. And not just once. It all started a few months ago.I was traveling home from university, completely drained after a long day of lectures. I got on a train, sat down, and did what most of us do when we retired. I started mindlessly scrolling through Instagram, simply letting the hours drift away.All I needed at that time was peace and silence. Nothingness. However, next ...

[Applause] [Music] All right, here's what we're going to do. Heads we go north, tails we go south. That coin flip launched a camping trip that changed my life.We had all of the camping gear packed up in the car. We had the entire long weekend free. What we didn't have was a plan.It was a little unusual for us. We were both media producers, so we were used to keeping a schedule down to the second. But there we were all packed up, nowhere to go.So, we flipped a coin and that freed us up. We could do anything. ...

Let me begin with a story. I love languages and above all I love my mother language Polish. So I keep a diary with words that I learned while reading.It's full of very niche and old words that rarely pop up in a conversation. One of these days I stumbled upon a very nice sounding word that amazed me from the start. It was a palimpest.That was the spark that ignited the flame and led me on this journey. And I would like to take you along with me. What is a palimpest.Originally, it was parchment or papyrus us ...

Growing up, class presentation days were some of my favorite days in school, but not for the reasons you're probably thinking. For one, it gave me the opportunity to wear a very cute outfit, just like right now. On top of that, any day that I got to talk in front of a group of people without the consequence of my desk moving, that was going to be a great day.And also, just like right now, I'd be the center of attention, even if it was just for a limited time only. On top of that, when I gave my presentation ...

Hello, my name is Shioahi. I'm a junior high school student from Oman. Today, I'd like to talk about myself. And before that, I'd like to introduce myself, habit.First, I'm now spending the last time being the junior high school student and also being the student council president. My club activity is enlav which means inspire next generation. It's really fun and the main project is man which means modern United Nations.I'd like to introduce this activity later. My hobby is to watch anime and dance valet. N ...

When we look at history, we find that in history, some who topped the classroom never topped the world and some who stumbled in the classroom went on to redefine the world. Ladies and gentlemen, today I'll be speaking about something fundamental to all of us. Education.Specifically, academic education, or as I like to call it, the overhyped checklist of grades, degrees, and diplomas. Don't get me wrong, academic education gives us knowledge, but let's be honest. Does memorizing the periodic table prepare yo ...

I am Kadij is a dean. I am from SS3 Python. If our thoughts are not provoked, then we fail to ask the right question.But when we fail to ask the right question, we fail to create. But by asking the right questions, mysteries are unraveled, puzzles solved, truth revealed. Ladies and gentlemen, parents, guardians, thinkers, and builders of today's tomorrow.What if I told you that the most powerful force in the world is not fire, it's not fire, not time, and not even love, but a question. Three letters, one wo ...

They say curiosity killed the cat, but what they don't tell you is that it build everything else. Hi, I'm Shiv. And honestly, I've spent most of my life trying to ask the kind of question that makes people go, "Wait, are you serious?" But that's the fun part, isn't it.Because when we think of alchemists, we think about strange men in smoky rooms trying to turn lead into gold. But maybe maybe they were not trying to chase gold after all. What they were trying to chase was something I call the impossible.And ...

Hello everyone, I'm Aaron. Have you ever feel like giving up. I mean really truly ready to quit maybe on a math problem, learning a new song, or even walking across the desert. When I was 10 years old, my mom sent me to a summer camp whose task was walking across the Tanganger Desert.They got off the first day, a nice relaxing 30 kilometers walk. Sounds fun, right. By the second kilometers, I was already a disaster.The sand was hot and my backpack was heavy and my mind was busy thinking, "My mom is so cruel ...

Fire, a pure form of energy which has set humanity apart. Something that is responsible for the evolution of uh the entire species as a whole, community as a whole. If humanity is what it is today, it's because of this Now, as a form of energy, it obviously excites people like me uh about you know entropy and calorie and so on and so forth.But this has been what has been driving us for millions of years. How many million. Let's say 2 million.And I'm not just taking this number out of the ether because 2 mil ...