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    Mysteries of vernacular: X-ray - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

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    Mysteries of vernacular: X-ray - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

    FromTED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

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    2 minutes
    Released:
    Jul 20, 2018
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    The story of the word X-Ray is one of great thinkers. French philosopher Rene Descartes isolated the letters X, Y and Z to stand for unknowns, and centuries later, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray, using the X for the unknown nature of the radiation. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel shed some light on the etymology of this modern marvel.
    Released:
    Jul 20, 2018
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    Podcast episode

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    TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed's growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).