TED Talks
TED: What should humans take to space (and leave behind)? | Jorge Mañes Rubio
TED talks about what should humans take to space (and leave behind)?
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Causation - Level 3 - Causal Relationships
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on causal relationships. TERMS: Cause - a thing that gives rise to an event Effect - an event Relationship - interconnection between parts of a system This...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle
What's so special about Leonard da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square -- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle...
Bozeman Science
Calculating the Gravitational Force
In this video Paul Andersen explains why astronauts are weightless. He also explains how Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation can be used to calculate the gravitational force between objects.
SciShow
3 Ways to Slingshot a Star
The star-mapping satellite Gaia has found more than 20 stars speeding across the Milky Way toward intergalactic space. There are just a few things that can slingshot a star out of a galaxy and all of them take some extreme gravitational...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
Perpetual motion machines - devices that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source - have captured many inventors' imaginations because they could totally transform our relationship with energy. There's just one...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
It's been a long road to the discovery that Earth is not the center of the Solar System, the Milky Way, or the universe; great thinkers from Aristotle to Bruno have grappled with it for millennia. But if we aren't at the center of the...
SciShow
Our New Galactic Neighborhood, and a Tar Comet?
SciShow Space shares the latest news from around the universe, including new insights into the giant supercluster of galaxies that we call home, and the first "data baby" from Rosetta's rendezvous with a comet.
SciShow
If the Sun Became a Black Hole Would Earth Fall In
If our sun turned into a black hole, you might think our solar system would be doomed, but in reality that's just not how black holes work.
SciShow
3 Ridiculously Extreme Black Holes
Black holes are some of the most extreme astronomical objects out there, but there are some that really standout. Let's look at black holes that grow larger, consume more, and spin faster than the rest.
SciShow
This Planet Used to Be the Core of a Gas Giant? | SciShow News
Scientists may have found the light from two merging black holes, and a gas giant, without the gas.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is this painting so captivating? - James Earle and Christina Bozsik
On first glance, the painting Las Meninasc (The Maids of Honorc) might not seem terribly special, but it's actually one of the most analyzed pieces in the history of art. Why is this painting by Diego Velazquez so captivating? James...
SciShow
Starquakes Could Be Behind 3 Cosmic Mysteries
We’ve detected seismic activity all around the solar system, from earthquakes to moonquakes, marsquakes to venusquakes. But the most dramatic quakes we know of actually happen on stars!
SciShow
There's another Milky way out there
As a species, we like to think everything about us is one of a kind, including the Milky Way Galaxy, but new evidence shows that yet again, we're not so unique.
SciShow
The Great Lakes Tropical Storm of 1996
Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.
TED Talks
TED: Bridges should be beautiful | Ian Firth
Bridges need to be functional, safe and durable, but they should also be elegant and beautiful, says structural engineer Ian Firth. In this mesmerizing tour of bridges old and new, Firth explores the potential for innovation and variety...
SciShow
What’s Hiding Inside The Crab Nebula?
The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied things in the sky, but it took glimpses through various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to get a full picture of what’s hiding inside!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5 | Alex Rosenthal
This is episode 5 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and...
PBS
Black Hole Swarms
It's been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we've actually seen them.
SciShow
Why Do Nuclear Bombs Make Mushroom Clouds?
If you've ever put your feet up on a warm summer's day and played "spot the shape in the cloud," you might've seen a kangaroo, a guy preparing to facepalm, maybe a mushroom... On second thought, hopefully not that last one.
SciShow
The Fastest Runaway Star in the Galaxy
Most stars orbit the center of the galaxy. Some stars don't. Learn what scientists think is going on, with Reid Reimers!