Instructional Video10:26
Bozeman Science

Evolution Continues

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen explains how life has evolved and continues to evolve today. A brief discussion of artificial, natural and sexual selection is included. The beak of the finch is used to explain how directional selection is achieved.
Instructional Video17:46
TED Talks

Paul Ewald: Can we domesticate germs?

12th - Higher Ed
Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: diarrhea.
Instructional Video10:03
Bozeman Science

Information Exchange

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen explains how organisms use information to communicate with each other. Signals are used by bees doing the waggle dance to communicate the location of flowers. Territorial markings are used by wolves to establish territory....
Instructional Video1:27
Be Smart

Are Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11

12th - Higher Ed
Some of the biggest evolution questions finally answered.
Instructional Video14:55
Bozeman Science

Unit 4 Review - Homeostasis

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen reviews the major concepts within the fourth unit of the new AP Biology framework. He begins by differentiating between negative and positive feedback loops. He explains how a stable internal environment is maintained...
Instructional Video16:30
TED Talks

Steven Johnson: The Web as a city

12th - Higher Ed
Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere,...
Instructional Video2:10
MinuteEarth

Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?

12th - Higher Ed
It's easy to assume that every trait - including stubby arms on a terrifying predator - must be beneficial, but the forces of evolution don't really work like that.
Instructional Video5:34
Bozeman Science

LS4B - Natural Selection

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen defines natural selection as differential reproductive success. He then explains how natural selection shapes organisms on our planet through variation and selection. A K-12 teaching progression is also included.
Instructional Video17:39
TED Talks

TED: Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson

12th - Higher Ed
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long,...
Instructional Video2:48
MinutePhysics

Evolution vs Natural Selection

12th - Higher Ed
Evolution vs Natural Selection
Instructional Video13:48
TED Talks

TED: The loves and lies of fireflies | Sara Lewis

12th - Higher Ed
Biologist Sara Lewis has spent the past 20 years getting to the bottom of the magic and wonder of fireflies. In this charming talk, she tells us how and why the beetles produce their silent sparks, what happens when two fireflies have...
Instructional Video19:45
TED Talks

Bill Gross: A solar energy system that tracks the sun

12th - Higher Ed
Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells -- and some questions we haven't...
Instructional Video9:14
MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth Explains: Human Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we answer the question "why are you the way that you are?"
Instructional Video20:07
TED Talks

Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

12th - Higher Ed
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool:...
Instructional Video4:16
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How does evolution really work? Actually, not how some of our common evolutionary metaphors would have us believe. For instance, it's species, not individual organisms, that adapt to produce evolution, and genes don't "want" to be passed...
Instructional Video11:29
Crash Course

Why Human Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History 204

12th - Higher Ed
This week on Crash Course Big History, Emily is talking about process of human evolution, and the knack for innovation that has allowed humans to become so dominant on the Earth. Human innovation, and the ability to build on those...
Instructional Video2:39
MinuteEarth

How Long Can We Live?

12th - Higher Ed
The human lifespan might be limited, in part, because natural selection just stops working late in life. ___________________________________________ Video Keywords: Mortality plateau: the leveling out of the mortality rate that is...
Instructional Video9:09
Bozeman Science

Biology

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen introduces the topic of Biology. He covers each of the four main ideas that were developed by the College Board. These ideas revolve around the concepts of evolution, free energy, information and systems.
Instructional Video15:04
Crash Course

The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from single-celled prokaryotes to the dizzying array of life we have today. So how did all this...
Instructional Video4:29
SciShow Kids

Story Time: A Very Special Moth

K - 5th
Squeaks and Jessi have a story to tell you about the peppered moth, a special insect that taught us a lot about a process called natural selection.
Instructional Video14:42
TED Talks

Nina Jablonski: Skin color is an illusion

12th - Higher Ed
Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies' adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that's because he did not have access to NASA.
Instructional Video6:48
Amoeba Sisters

Speciation

12th - Higher Ed
Explore speciation with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses sympatric and allopatric speciation and covers several types of isolation types including behavioral, temporal, and habitat isolations. Table of Contents: Intro 00:00...
Instructional Video1:28
Be Smart

Can Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9

12th - Higher Ed
Some of the biggest evolution questions finally answered.
Instructional Video4:47
SciShow

Abilities Evolution Took From Us

12th - Higher Ed
A common misconception is that evolution is a long chain of progress, where organisms gain cool, new features over time. However, if a trait doesn't help with survival or reproduction, eventually it can disappear. Here are a few...