SciShow
These Wasps Throw Awesome Parties
Large clumps of wasps can occasionally be found on the tops of tall structures, and although you probably still don’t want to mess with them, these aren’t angry swarms—they’re actually super chill parties.
SciShow
The Incredible World of Trees | SciShow Tree Compilation
Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us!
SciShow
Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down?
Bats sleep upside down, so how come they don’t fall? Turns out that they’ve got some unusual legs.
SciShow
Why Do We Jump in Our Sleep?
Learn why you may experience jumping in your sleep, and how you can prevent it!
PBS
Community Colleges Pay Student Expenses Beyond Tuition Hoping To Boost Graduation Rates
Community colleges can be a catapult to economic mobility, dramatically increasing earnings and almost all are open admission. But most students that start degrees do not finish on time, and many don’t finish at all. Hari Sreenivasan...
PBS
Until research unlocks medical understanding of marijuana, patients experiment
Lenny and Amy’s 5-year-old son has epilepsy. When conventional medications caused terrible side effects, they started giving him a daily drop of cannabis oil, with dramatic results. But it’s a calculated risk: While there is anecdotal...
PBS
Ending AIDS in NY means finding the most vulnerable
Nearly one in 10 Americans living with HIV live in New York, where an ambitious plan aims to cut new infections and HIV-related deaths. But the state has serious challenges, including keeping people on their meds, and preventing the...
PBS
Until research unlocks medical understanding of marijuana, patients experiment
Lenny and Amy's 5-year-old son has epilepsy. When conventional medications caused terrible side effects, they started giving him a daily drop of cannabis oil, with dramatic results. But it's a calculated risk: While there is anecdotal...
PBS
An Essay On The Importance Of Interracial Friendships
In a year when racism has been front and center in Americans’ minds, how can we break out of our own orbits to understand the life experiences of other people -- especially those of other races? Author and journalist Christine Pride...
PBS
Rohingya refugees flee harrowing violence
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the
past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and
Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions
with local...
PBS
Is Academia Suffering from 'Adjunctivitis'? Low-Paid Adjunct Professors Struggle to Make Ends Meet (Feb. 6, 2014)
Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of...
PBS
U.S. World Power in Decline?
As part of his continuing series of reports examining the country's economic future, Paul Solman sits down with Yale historian Paul Kennedy to discuss the rise and fall of the U.S. and other great economic powers
PBS
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (May 27, 2008) (TRT: 8:38)
Jeffrey Brown interviews Chinua Achebe on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Things Fall Apart."
MinutePhysics
The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes
This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it is not naturally-occurring. Chemical reactions...
Crash Course
The Fall of Communism: Crash Course European History
The aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact had a huge impact on the countries of Eastern Europe. As the former satellite states turned away from communism and Soviet influence, some of them shifted toward...
Crash Course
Brains Vs. Bias: Crash Course Psychology
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes a look at WAIS and WISC intelligence tests and how bias can really skew both results and the usefulness of those results. -- Table of Contents WAIS & WISC Tests 01:09:22...
SciShow
Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow
Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.
Crash Course
Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age - Crash Course World History 206
In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar...
SciShow Kids
Where Does Frost Come From? | Winter Science | SciShow Kids
If you've ever gone outside really early on a cold day in fall, you might have seen a thin layer of sparkly ice crystals covering everything! That ice is called frost, and it can only form if the weather is exactly right!
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SciShow Kids
Why Do We Have Baby Teeth?
Have you ever lost a tooth? Or maybe you have teeth that are getting a little wiggly? It's all part of growing up! Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn why we lose our baby teeth and how we can take care of our new permanent teeth! Say cheese!
SciShow
Breast Cancer gets Worse in the Spring and Fall. But...Why?
Seasonal illnesses from infectious diseases aren’t a new concept, but a few decades ago public health experts began to notice the same behavior in some non-infectious diseases like breast cancer. These patterns have helped us learn a lot...
TED Talks
TED: Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might | Zahra' Langhi
In Libya, Zahra' Langhi was part of the "days of rage" movement that helped topple the dictator Gaddafi. But -- then what? In their first elections, Libyans tried an innovative slate of candidates, the "zipper ballot," that ensured equal...
SciShow
Do Dead Batteries Really Bounce?
Some people have this idea that dead batteries bounce if you drop them, but is it true?