Skunk Teacher Resources

The marshmallow test became the poster child for the idea that there are specific personality traits that are stable and consistent. And this drives Walter Mischel crazy. "That iconic story is upside-down wrong," Mischel says. "That your...

There's a new use for those stale Easter marshmallows you have lying around - calculating a constant that governs the universe. [5:06]

We use the yard lines to map out our planet's past (and humanity's tiny moment in it). [4:38]

Fake snakes, mimicking moths and disguised flies: surviving in a bug-eat-bug world. [3:56]

What do Jesuit priests, gin and tonics, and ancient Chinese scrolls have in common? They all show up in our animated history of malaria. [2:35]

Self-driving cars are poised to become the future of road transportation. But if they are going to share the road with us, they have to learn how we drive. [4:10]

Learn some things about America's favorite decorative gourd. [3:27]

Check out one of the world's most ancient snacks up close - and it looks like a bunch of bubbles. [1:46]

When sick people search the Web for remedies or tweet about their symptoms, they're sending an early warning signal about disease outbreaks. Now scientists and public health officials are listening in. [2:44]

Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes upsetting. [3:16]

Everything scientists know suggests that this little creature is immortal. [4:21]

The thing about prices is they tend to change. But for 70 years, between 1886 and the late 1950s, the price of a Coca-Cola was a shiny nickel. [3:45]

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's a musical look at your brain on love. [3:30]

Eastern hellbenders live throughout the Appalachian region in the United States. Their ancestors have been on Earth for around 160 million years, but in the last several decades their numbers have dropped dangerously in several states,...

Watching an eclipse? Save your eyeballs -- rig up a sweet viewing set-up with some help from this video. [3:00]

Meet some real ancient giants and their modern relatives, in rhyming verse. [3:03]

A beautiful tour of the bizarre system that keeps chicks from suffocating before they hatch. [3:10]

Tinder for wolves? The survival of the maned wolf may depend on the science of matchmaking. [4:45]

The Parker Solar Probe is going to go closer to the sun than any spacecraft has come before. It will take seven years to fly 93 million miles to reach the sun's corona, its outermost atmosphere. The probe will withstand temperatures up...

No matter how you feel about hunting, it provides a lot of funding for state wildlife agencies. Now, fewer Americans are hunting, and that system is breaking down. The United States needs to find a new way to fund the preservation of...

This lesson focuses on the Confessional Poets: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell, who all suffered from depression which is reflected in their poems. It gives short bios of each poet and provides a link to one poem from each:...

The moments in history when famous scientists discovered gravity, evolution, and relativity. (This is really an ad for Skunk Bear's tumblr account which is no longer being updated.) [1:03]

The Canadian Museum of Nature offers a detailed drawing of a striped skunk followed by a brief description of the animal.

The Canadian Museum of Nature offers a detailed drawing of a striped skunk followed by a brief description of the animal.