How a good night's sleep benefits your brain

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TED-Ed Original Lessons The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu Animation by Javier Saldeña It’s 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep? Shai Marcu defends the latter option, showing how sleep restructures your brain in a way that’s crucial for how our memory works. View full lesson » Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom Animation by Oxbow Creative As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a “failed” academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our understanding of the universe. Larry Lagerstrom details these four groundbreaking papers. View full lesson » The evolution of the eye - Joshua Harvey  Animation by Artrake Studio The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to a few quadrillion, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second. How did these complex structures evolve? Joshua Harvey details the 500 million year story of the human eye. View full lesson »

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