TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you change your sleep schedule? | TED-Ed
An early bird rises with the sun, springing out of bed abuzz with energy. Meanwhile, a night owl groggily rises much later, not hitting their stride until late in the day. How many people are truly night owls or early birds? And are our...
SciShow
How Dogs Really Listen to Us, and How Pufferfish Puff
This week on SciShow News: Animals! New research has found how dogs actually listen to us in more complex ways than you probably thought, and also figured out how a kind of pufferfish gets its puff up.
MinuteEarth
What Are Brain Waves?
Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these...
SciShow
Do Animals Appreciate Music?
Animals might be music lovers, but how can we know? Is the ability to perceive and appreciate music a shared human and animal experience?
TED Talks
LADAMA: How music crosses cultures and empowers communities
Singing in Spanish, Portuguese and English, LADAMA brings a vibrant, energizing and utterly danceable musical set to the TED stage. In between performances of their songs "Night Traveler" and "Porro Maracatu," they discuss how...
SciShow
Why Do Fish School?
You might think that fish ride the undercurrents with all their buds to avoid the hungry mouths of predators - safety in numbers, right? But, it turns out, there’s more to consider when asking why fish swim in schools.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time - and still speak today....
SciShow
How Dogs Really Listen to Us, and How Pufferfish Puff
This week on SciShow News: Animals! New research has found how dogs actually listen to us in more complex ways than you probably thought, and also figured out how a kind of pufferfish gets its puff up.
SciShow
Karaoke Lemurs and the Evolution of Music
By giving some fossils a dental exam, we've learned more about how tusks first evolved. And humans aren't the only primate that can get down at karaoke night.
TED Talks
Michael Moschen: Juggling as art ... and science
Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion.
Crash Course
The Heart, part 2 - Heart Throbs: Crash Course A&P
Today we're talking the heart and heart throbs -- both literal and those of the televised variety. Hank explains how your heart's pacemaker cells use leaky membranes to generate their own action potentials, and how the resulting...
SciShow
What Keeps Astronauts Up At Night?
Sleep is a crucial activity for our brains to function properly. But when you’re on the ISS, you face a myriad of distractions and obligations that make it difficult to get good shuteye. So how do these astronauts ever get restful sleep?
SciShow
The Surprising Connection Between Reading and Rhythm
You might know of dyslexia as a reading disorder, but years of research suggests that people with dyslexia might struggle with processing letters because they also have trouble processing rhythm.
SciShow
Why Do Fevers Get Worse at Night?
If you’ve ever noticed that being sick often sucks more at night, that wasn’t your imagination. Fevers do often rise at night! Why do our bodies do that? Is there a reason we have to suffer more?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney
In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. But there are other ways to visualize rhythm that can be more intuitive. John Varney describes the 'wheel method' of tracing rhythm and uses it to take us on a musical...
TED Talks
TED: Poems of war, peace, women, power | Suheir Hammad
Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: "What I Will" and "break (clustered)" -- meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: "Do not fear what has blown up. If you must,...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein
Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is central to our experience, and often brings us pleasure. We can find pleasure in the rhythm of a song, or even the rows of an orchard. Of course, too...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What makes a poem a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
What exactly makes a poem - a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable...
TED Talks
TED: How I found myself through music | Anika Paulson
Music is everywhere, and it is in everything, says musician, student and TeD-ed Clubs star Anika Paulson. Guitar in hand, she plays through the beats of her life in an exploration of how music connects us and makes us what we are.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to read music - Tim Hansen
Like an actor's script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few simple elements like notes, bars and...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – How to Beatbox with SK Shlomo
New ReviewWe’re Going on a Bear Hunt – How to Beatbox with SK Shlomo
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Michael Rosen Rap – Poetry Workshop
New ReviewThe Michael Rosen Rap – Poetry Workshop
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Rhythm of Life – Poetry Workshop
New ReviewRhythm of Life – Poetry Workshop
Curated Video
Parallel Language In Poetry
New ReviewThis video outlines elements of papallel syntax found in poetry.