Worried about turning into your parents? Hank unpacks the connection between personality, genetics, and upbringing. Ultimately, though, you are your own person.

What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands...

Social psychologist Dannagal G. Young breaks down the link between our psychology and politics, showing how personality types largely fall into people who prioritize openness and flexibility (liberals) and those who prefer order and...

Sometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their Abbey. This is the story of Gregor Mendel and how his work was done, lost, then found again.

After Darwin blew the doors off the scientific community, a lot of people did some weird and unscientific stuff with his ideas. Francis Galton and a few others decided natural selection could be used to make the human race "better" and...

Male birds have the largest genital diversity of any class of animals because their sex chromosomes make it easy to pass male-helping mutations down the...

Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness.

Narcissism isn't just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. But what causes it? And can narcissists improve on their negative traits? W. Keith Campbell...

How would you measure a personality? What, exactly, is the self? Well, as you've come to expect, it's not that easy to nail down an answer for those questions. Whether you're into blood, bile, earth, wind, fire, or those Buzzfeed...

In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people's personalities into 16 types. Called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, it would go on to become...

Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution.

Purgatorius, a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform, might've been one of your earliest ancestors. But how did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel than a monkey -- to you, a member of Homo sapiens?

New ReviewThis captivating program uses colorful animations to illustrate the process by which genetic information is transferred by genes. Special attention is placed on how different alleles enable different traits to be expressed. The Law of...

The big baddie in Beowulf isn't actually the monster Grendel, but Grendel's Mother. Who maybe isn't a monster at all? Often depicted in adaptations as a hideous beast or an alluring seductress, her true nature is debated. Despite...

In this video, the concept of archetypes in storytelling is explored, with a focus on the epic hero archetype. The video highlights the seven key traits that epic heroes typically possess, such as nobility, strength, bravery, and...

This video explains how Punnet squares are used to predict genetic traits.

This video describes the difference between incomplete and codominance of genetics.

2 min video describing Artificial Selection for middle school science

This video explores the literary concepts of parody and spoof, two forms of humorous imitation with distinct characteristics.

2 min video explaining human pedigree charts for middle school science

A video entitled "Scientific Work" which talks about the characteristics and traits of scientists.

In this video, viewers are provided with valuable tips on how to effectively showcase their skills on their resume. The speaker emphasizes the importance of including only relevant and up-to-date skills, organizing them in a clear and...

Personification is a figurative language device that is often used in creative writing. It gives human characteristics to things that are not human.In this lesson, we walk through what personification is, why it's used and we have a go...

Howcast - Learn about personality disorder testing from psychiatrist Ankur Saraiya in this Howcast video.