TED-Ed A playbook on systemic transformation -- starting with climate

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The fingerprints of life beyond Earth

7:58 minutes · TEDMonterey

Is there life on Venus? Quantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva makes the case for a new way to seek and possibly discover habitable planets -- and shares her research into a poisonous, smelly molecule that might signal life beyond Earth.

The method that can "prove" almost anything

4:53 minutes · TED-Ed

In 2011, a group of researchers conducted a study designed to find an impossible result. Their study involved real people, truthfully reported data and commonplace statistical analyses. So how did they do it? The answer lies in a statistical method scientists often use to try to figure out whether their results mean something, or if they're random noise. James A. Smith explores p-hacking.