TED Talks
TED: Insightful human portraits made from data | R. Luke DuBois
Artist R. Luke DuBois makes unique portraits of presidents, cities, himself and even Britney Spears using data and personality. In this talk, he shares nine projects -- from maps of the country built using information taken from millions...
Crash Course
MMORPGs - Crash Course Games
So we ended the last episode with casual gaming and a more connected gaming community, but these connected communities started much before smartphones and Facebook. Today, we're going to talk about MMORPGs - or Massively Multiplayer...
TED Talks
Karen Bass: Unseen footage, untamed nature
At TED2012, filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage she's shot for the BBC and National Geographic -- including brand-new, previously unseen footage of the tube-lipped nectar bat, who feeds in a rather unusual...
SciShow
Why Up Matters to Your Brain
Gravity may be doing a lot more than just keeping us planted on the Earth. Scientists are learning that it’s also a key player in how we perceive things.
SciShow
Could the Firefly Universe Exist?
Firefly takes place in an incredibly complicated star system. But it probably couldn't exist, because physics.
SciShow
What Happened to the Juno Spacecraft?
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is a trooper as it continues its 2-year-long mission.
SciShow
Found Dozens of Ancient Cryovolcanoes on Ceres! SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered up to 31 more cryovolcano remnants on Ceres, and the Iridium flares are slowly being allowed to burn up in our atmosphere, so see them while you still can!
Crash Course
Asteroids
Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between...
Crash Course
Hearing & Balance: Crash Course A&P
Crash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This...
SciShow
Why Do Some People Love Horror Movies?
Fear is strong negative feeling and a good way for our brains to keep us out of danger, so why do some people seek it out by watching horror movies?
Crash Course
Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #9
The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results. But just because information is new, or algorithmically determined to be...
MinutePhysics
Tutorial - Creating the Sound of Hydrogen
In this tutorial I show how I synthesized the sound of hydrogen for the "Sound of Hydrogen" video using mathematica - it's a little technical, but you've been requesting it!
Crash Course
The Red Summer of 1919: Crash Course Black American History
During the Red Summer of 1919 violence against Black people broke out across the United States. Black people and neighborhoods were attacked in Washington DC, Chicago, Tulsa, and many other cities and towns across the country. Post-war...
TED Talks
Marc Pachter: The art of the interview
Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great...
Crash Course
Eastern Europe Consolidates: Crash Course European History
While the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at today. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and Russia were all competing at the...
Crash Course
Introduction: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
In which Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function, and we'll get into how it...
Crash Course
Aggression V. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology
In our final episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses the ideas of Aggression and Altruism. These two things are difficult to understand and explain so sit tight and get ready to run the gauntlet of human emotions. If you are...
MinutePhysics
Why is Relativity Hard? | Special Relativity Chapter 1
Thanks to my friend Mark Rober for making the spacetime globe, and to Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) for inspiration. This is the first in a series of videos about special relativity. This is definitely not an academic course, but it's...
Crash Course Kids
Fixing Failure Points
Now that we've talked about failure points, let's talk about how to fix them. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to set up models and trails to find and fix failure points.
SciShow
How Sea Butterflies "Fly" in Water
Birds fly, and fish swim. We learn this when we are children. But not everything in nature is quite so simple… Meet Limacina helicina, an artic-dwelling sea butterfly that flies through the water. Chapters View all SPY IN THE WILD 2 0:04...
TED Talks
TED: The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
TED Fellow Zahra Al-Mahdi was raised by screens -- "storytelling machines" like TV and the internet that shaped her sense of self and reality. Now a multimedia artist and filmmaker, she challenges common historical narratives and brings...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
Can you ever travel from one place to another? Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea gave a convincing argument that all motion is impossible - but where's the flaw in his logic? Colm Kelleher illustrates how to resolve Zeno's Dichotomy...
Crash Course
Television Production: Crash Course Film Production
In our final episode of Crash Course Film Production, it's time to take a look at television production and how it differs from feature film production. It's subtle but it has a lot to do with how television shows make money for their...
SciShow
Why We Respond to Disasters with Altruism
The idea that humans react to disasters by losing control and acting selfishly is all too prevalent, especially in movies and television. But recent studies on altruism may provide evidence that this isn’t always the case, and this...