TED-Ed
TED-ED: How to sequence the human genome - Mark J. Kiel
Your genome, every human's genome, consists of a unique DNA sequence of A's, T's, C's and G's that tell your cells how to operate. Thanks to technological advances, scientists are now able to know the sequence of letters that makes up an...
Crash Course
Poverty & Our Response to It: Crash Course Philosophy
We’re picking up where we left off last time, exploring the “ethics of care” and how it applies to extreme poverty. Are we responding to global poverty in a moral way? Philosophers like Peter Singer argue that we have an obligation to...
Crash Course
Intro to Algorithms: Crash Course Computer Science
Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this isn’t a new concept. Since the development of math itself algorithms have been needed to help us...
TED Talks
TED: You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one | Majora Carter
Low-status neighborhoods in the US are often stuck between stagnating assistance from the government and gentrification at the hands of real estate developers. The result is that the brightest minds are convinced that "success" means...
Crash Course
Markets, Efficiency, and Price Signals: Crash Course Economics
Adriene and Jacob teach you all about markets. So, in free market(ish) economies like the United States and most of the world, markets are a big deal. Markets work to produce the stuff that consumers want, and that society needs. Today...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The surprisingly long history of electric cars | Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal
By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric. But these vehicles had a few major problems — early car batteries were expensive and inefficient, and the vehicles were twice the price of a gas-powered car. And...
Crash Course
Intro to Economics: Crash Course Econ
In which Jacob Clifford and Adriene Hill launch a brand new Crash Course on Economics! So, what is economics? Good question. It's not necessarily about money, or stock markets, or trade. It's about people and choices. What, you may ask,...
Bozeman Science
Water Resources
In this video Paul Andersen explains how water is unequally distributed around the globe through the hydrologic cycles. Seawater is everywhere but is not useful without costly desalination. Freshwater is divided between surface water and...
Bozeman Science
Ecosystem Diversity
In this video Paul Andersen explains how biodiversity can be measured through genetic, species, or ecosystem variety on the planet. Species diversity is increased through speciation and decrease through extinction. The mechanism for...
TED Talks
Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
The future of green is local. Majora Carter tells three inspiring stories of people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet.
Crash Course
Memory & Storage: Crash Course Computer Science
So we’ve talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven’t talked about is storage. Data written to storage, like your hard drive, is a little different, because it will still be there even if the power goes...
SciShow
Mars Cities and Moon Bases: SpaceX's Big New Plans
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced some ambitious plans at the International Aeronautical Congress. If he's right, we could have humans living on the moon and Mars within a decade, and you might never have an 18 hour flight again!
MinuteEarth
Love Letter to Food
Thanks to the Food Policy Research Center (FPRC) at the University of Minnesota for supporting the issue brief done in conjunction with this video, and to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for supporting FPRC.
MinuteEarth
How Much Does Meat Actually Cost?
Want to learn more about this video's topic? Here are some keywords to get your googling started: Externality: a cost or benefit caused by an activity that affects other parties but is not taken into consideration (e.g. by being...
Curated Video
The Economic Cost of Longevity: Challenges and Strategies for Governments
This video discusses the economic implications of increasing longevity and the challenges it poses for governments and economies. It explores the need for healthcare, senior care facilities, and pension benefits for an aging population,...
Curated Video
What is Value Engineering? Project Management in Under 5
As a Project Manager, you will one day find yourself in a meeting when someone makes the suggestion: 'I think we need to do some Value Engineering.' It's a necessary part of many projects. So, what is Value Engineering?
Curated Video
What is Sunk Cost? ...and the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
What is Sunk Cost? And what is the Sunk Cost Trap, or the Sunk Cost Fallacy? Sunk Cost is a concept that is important to project management, and in this video, I'll tell you what it is. Sunk Cost is the investment (of money, resources,...
Curated Video
What is Opportunity Cost?
There's an old saying: ‘Time is money’. It's all about Opportunity Cost. It means, if you try to save money by doing something yourself, you may be omitting to think about the value of your time. When you are working on that thing, you...
Curated Video
Competitive Procurement: How to Run a Tender Process
Many projects need to procure services or long-term supply contracts. And getting the best value often means running a competitive tender process. So let's see the steps you need to take. 1. Determine requirements 2. Document...
Curated Video
Fishing Entrepreneurs: How Small-Scale Fisheries are Adapting Sales to Survive
Learn about the challenges small-scale fishers face when their high-quality fish gets lost in the mass market dominated by industrial catches. This video also delves into the inefficiencies and environmental costs of the global seafood...
Curated Video
Introducing NUVO: The Advanced Humanoid Robot for Home Use
NUVO is a humanoid robot developed by ZMP, designed for home users in Japan. Standing at 35 centimeters tall and weighing 2.5 kilograms, NUVO can walk, dance, and respond to voice commands. It even has the ability to pick itself up when...
Curated Video
Introducing NUVO: The Advanced Humanoid Robot for Home Use
NUVO is a humanoid robot developed by ZMP, designed to be affordable and accessible for home users in Japan. Standing at 35 centimeters tall and weighing 2.5 kilograms, NUVO can walk, dance, and respond to voice commands. With its...
Curated Video
The Rise of Domestic Robots: From Vacuuming to Multifunctional Household Assistants
The video discusses the growing use of domestic robots worldwide, highlighting their various functions such as vacuuming, mowing lawns, guiding visitors, and even delivering mail. It mentions that the United Nations utilizes robots for...
Curated Video
Telecom Italia's Radical Plan: Introducing the Video Phone
Telecom Italia has launched a video phone that allows low-cost video calls to regular landline phones without the need for additional devices or changes to the line. The phone offers better picture quality than high-end 3G mobile phones...