SciShow Kids
Quetzalcoatlus: The Biggest Animal Who Ever Flew! | The Science of Flight | SciShow Kids
The birds you see around today might not be that big, but a long time ago, there was a flying animal the size of some airplanes!
SciShow Kids
My First Time Flying on an Airplane! | Airplane Science | SciShow Kids
Jessi and Squeaks are taking a trip soon! But Squeaks has never been on a plane before, and he's a little nervous about it. Let's learn what it's like to go through the airport and to be on an airplane, so we can help squeaks feel a...
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How Does Food Get to Our Stomachs and More Answers to Your Questions! | SciShow Kids
This week, Mister Brown joins Squeaks to answer a bunch more of your questions about the Earth and about our bodies!
SciShow Kids
Can You Guess the Weather? | Weather Guessing Game | SciShow Kids Compilation
There’s all sorts of weather out there, so Squeaks and Mister Brown are playing a game show where they will learn all about the different types!
Crash Course
Serpents and Dragons: Crash Course World Mythology #38
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power...
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Freud, Jung, Luke Skywalker, and the Psychology of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #40
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and how a lot of their work was influenced by myth and mythology. While Freud and Jung aren't quite as revered as they once were, they were undoubtedly a huge...
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Broadway Book Musicals: Crash Course Theater #50
This is it! We're going out with a singing, dancing look at the Broadway Book Musical. Oklahoma! On the Town! Annie Get Your Gun! Also, just Annie! Today you'll learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late 19th...
Crash Course
Crash Course World Mythology Preview
Crash Course Mythology with Mike Rugnetta is here, and we have the preview video to prove it. We'll be uploading Friday afternoons to fulfill all your hunger for foundational cultural stories and whatnot.
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The Horrors of the Grand Guignol: Crash Course Theater #35
Prepare to be horrified, and to look into the face of inhumanity with the Grand Guignol. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about one of theater history's most horrible chapters. The Grand Guignol was a French theater based in Paris from the late...
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Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match: Crash Course Theater #33
It's a Scandinavian grudge match on Crash Course Theater. We're looking at a couple of the key movements in European theater that deeply influenced the modern theater of today. We'll take a close look at two of the most radical and...
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Realism Gets Even More Real: Crash Course Theater #32
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, theater was evolving rapidly in Europe. Impresarios like Georg II, Duke of the Duchy of Saxe Meinengen (in what is now Germany), were pushing theater troupes to new heights of realism. New...
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Into Africa and Wole Soyinka: Crash Course Theater #49
It's difficult to talk about African theater thanks to colonialism. Pre-colonial Africa was home to many spoken languages, and not nearly as many written languages. The chain of oral tradition was broken by colonial policies, and so many...
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Little Theater and American Avant Garde: Crash Course Theater #40
In the early 20th century United States, big melodramatic productions were on Broadway, and everywhere across the country. Which inevitably led to an Avant-Garde backlash. An interesting part of the backlash was Little Theater, a...
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Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater: Crash Course Theater #34
Get ready for Russian modernism. Mike is teaching you about the playwrighting of Catherine the Great, Anton Chekhov's plays, the Moscow Art Theater, and the acting theories of Stanislavski. It's all very real, and very modern. From a...
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Broadway, Seriously: Crash Course Theater #46
We're going to Broadway, everybody, and it's not going to be that fun. In fact, it's going to be a very serious experience with lots of powerful social commentary and indictments of life in America in the 1950s. So be prepared to look at...
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Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45
Get ready to get weird. Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the Theater of the Absurd, a 1950s theatrical reaction to the dire world events of the 1940s. You'll learn about Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and the theatrical...
PBS
Educators worry about students using artificial intelligence to cheat
Earlier this month, New York City public schools blocked access to the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. Educators are concerned that students could use this technology to write papers – the tool wasn't even a month old when...
TED Talks
TED: How gaming can be a force for good | Noah Raford
If you think social media is powerful, keep an eye on immersive video games, says futurist Noah Raford. As more and more people are drawn into gaming and virtual worlds, the communities they forge are spawning real-world social...
TED Talks
TED: 3 steps to help kids process traumatic events | Kristen Nguyen
What do we say to kids when intensely traumatic events interrupt everyday life? Whether you're a teacher, parent or community builder, educator Kristen Nguyen provides three research-backed steps for navigating these difficult...
TED Talks
TED: 3 elements of true fun -- and how to have more of it | Catherine Price
What comes to mind when you think about the most fun moments of your life? Science journalist Catherine Price asked thousands of people across the world this question, and their answers led her to a new definition of "true" fun: a...
TED Talks
TED: The habit that could improve your career | Paul Catchlove
Paul Catchlove believes strongly in the power of reflection. Through every career he's held -- from priest to opera singer to senior management consultant -- he's benefitted from a habit of considering and analyzing his goals, needs and...
TED Talks
TED: What you can learn from people who disagree with you | Shreya Joshi
Youth leader Shreya Joshi diagnoses a key source of political polarization in the US and shows why having "uncomfortable conversations" with people you disagree with is crucial to bridging the divide. "When we are able to recognize what...
TED Talks
TED: 3 stories of Pakistani resilience, told in film | Jawad Sharif
TED Fellow Jawad Sharif was born with a rebellious streak -- and he's used it in his documentary films to amplify the unheard voices of Pakistan. Sharing three stories of everyday heroes -- a high-altitude mountaineer, a folk musician of...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: History vs. Thomas Jefferson | Frank Cogliano
Thomas Jefferson, founding father of the United States and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, was part of America's fight for freedom and equality. But in his personal life, he held over 600 people in slavery. Are his...