Instructional Video11:00
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: With the SciShow Space Reid Reimers!

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, where SciShow Space co-hosts Hank and Reid are back for another round!
Instructional Video5:23
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Can you solve the pirate riddle? - Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It's a good day to be a pirate. Amaro and his four mateys _ Bart, Charlotte, Daniel, and Eliza have struck gold _ a chest with 100 coins. But now, they must divvy up the booty according to the pirate code - and pirate code is notoriously...
Instructional Video4:46
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What's a smartphone made of? - Kim Preshoff

Pre-K - Higher Ed
As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of...
Instructional Video22:43
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: Dr. Heiko Langner on Birds and Bioaccumulation

12th - Higher Ed
Crash Course Chemistry Consultant, Dr. Heiko Langner talks to Hank about lab safety, geochemical research, and cleaning up super fund sites. Afterward, Jessi Knudsen from Animal Wonders joins them with Zapper, the Alexandrian Parakeet....
Instructional Video7:51
TED Talks

TED: You don't need an app for that | Toby Shapshak

12th - Higher Ed
Are the simplest phones the smartest? While the rest of the world is updating statuses and playing games on smartphones, Africa is developing useful SMS-based solutions to everyday needs, says journalist Toby Shapshak. In this...
Instructional Video5:08
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The Norse myth that inspired "The Lord of the Rings" | Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The dwarves were master craftspeople. One dwarf, Andvari, forged marvelous creations. He often took the form of a fish and, one day, he swam to the land of the water nymphs, who guarded mounds of gold. When the nymphs laughed at his...
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

New Elements and Exploding Whales

12th - Higher Ed
Hank introduces you to the latest element to be created -- and explains why we make them in the first place -- plus the science of exploding whales. It's a thing, people.
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

The Dress: Now with Peer-Reviewed Science!

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers have an idea about how your lifestyle affects the way you see the dress, and we've identified a new ancestor to the dinosaurs!
Instructional Video17:53
SciShow

A Pure and Restful Quiz Show | SciShow Quiz Show

12th - Higher Ed
Sally Le Page joins us on Quiz Show this week, where we celebrate the submission of her doctoral thesis with the most peaceful, relaxing questions we could devise, assuming you don’t count the volcanoes or screamed-at caterpillars
Instructional Video17:10
TED Talks

Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor for the web's future

12th - Higher Ed
The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it's more like the early days of the electric industry.
Instructional Video5:09
TED-Ed

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? | Dennis E. Shasha

Pre-K - Higher Ed
According to legend, three galactic terraformers shaped your planet into a paradise. When their work was done, they left the source of their power behind: three golden hexagons, hidden in dungeons full of traps and monsters. If one...
Instructional Video9:48
TED Talks

TED: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch

12th - Higher Ed
Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply?...
Instructional Video3:01
SciShow

Gold: The Big Bling

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about a shiny element that has fascinated humans for millenia.
Instructional Video9:54
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Dr. Lindsey Doe

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode of SciShow Quiz Show, host Michael Aranda test the wits of contestants Dr. Lindsey Doe and Hank Green.
Instructional Video13:10
TED Talks

Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art

12th - Higher Ed
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless"...
Instructional Video9:02
SciShow

Fritz Haber: Great Minds

12th - Higher Ed
Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped lead to the Green Revolution which is credited with...
Instructional Video11:40
SciShow

Introducing: SciShow Talk Show! Emily, Rhinos, and Cas the Arctic Fox

12th - Higher Ed
We decided it would be cool to have guests come into the studio and talk about science with Hank.
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Mining Asteroids for Space Treasure!

12th - Higher Ed
In the quest to build colonies in space, one major hurdle to overcome getting materials for construction to the places they'll be needed. One of the most promising techniques for solving this problem involves some extraordinary space...
Instructional Video10:43
TED Talks

TED: This tiny particle could roam your body to find tumors | Sangeeta Bhatia

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us -- without expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity? Physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia leads a multidisciplinary lab that...
Instructional Video15:00
TED Talks

TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood

12th - Higher Ed
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
Instructional Video4:43
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is...
Instructional Video4:15
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Solving the puzzle of the periodic table - Eric Rosado

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How did the periodic table of elements revolutionize our understanding of the world? What scientists contributed to the table we have today? Eric Rosado discusses the key people and discoveries that have molded our understanding of...
Instructional Video4:20
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Can you solve the dark coin riddle? - Lisa Winer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
As a world-renowned treasure hunter, you have been searching for the legendary dungeon containing the stash of ancient Stygian coins. The wizard who owns the castle has even allowed you to have them, on one condition-you must solve his...
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

The Science of That Dress

12th - Higher Ed
The science of the multicolored dress.