TED Talks
Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture
Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself.
MinuteEarth
The Plankton Paradox
The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.
SciShow Kids
Why Don’t Woodpeckers’ Heads Hurt?
Woodpeckers search for food by using their face to dig through tree bark! But why doesn't this give them a headache?
TED Talks
Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view
What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view.
TED Talks
TED: An illustrated kingdom of real, fantastical plants | Nirupa Rao
Botanical artist Nirupa Rao captures the spirit and beauty of nature in watercolor. With a portfolio of enchanting, scientifically accurate illustrations, she aims to reignite our emotional connection to the environment -- and open our...
SciShow
Ecosystems Around the Globe Contain Echoes of Past Peoples
There’s a common misconception that humans of the past lived in harmony with their environments and left them “pristine and untouched.” However, there is plenty of evidence that these relationships were much more complicated
SciShow
Why Avocados Shouldn't Exist
The avocado is highly regarded by many people as delicious and nutritious, but the most extraordinary thing about avocados may be their very existence.
TED Talks
TED: How Christmas lights helped guerrillas put down their guns | Jose Miguel Sokoloff
In my lifetime, I have never lived one day of peace in my country, says Jose Miguel Sokoloff. This ad executive from Colombia saw a chance to help guerrilla fighters choose to come home -- with smart marketing. He shares how some...
SciShow
The 3 Coolest Things Built By Birds
There are a number of bird species that construct pretty cool things - today on SciShow, we'll visit with three of them...
TED Talks
Richard Preston: The mysterious lives of giant trees
Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still, largely, a mystery.
TED-Ed
The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death | Soraya Field Fiorio
In 1849, in the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq, archaeologists sifted through dusty remains, hoping to find records to prove that Bible stories were true. What they found instead was a 4,000-year-old story inscribed on crumbling clay...
MinuteEarth
How This River Made Chimps Violent
When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.
MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth Explains: Size
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we tackle the science of size.
SciShow
4 Ways to Uncover Ancient Earthquakes
Earthquakes shake a lot of things up, but after decades or even centuries, it might be a little tough to figure out when or even where one may have happened. Luckily, nature has a few ways of letting us know.
SciShow Kids
How Plants Drink Fog! | SciShow Kids
Trees need water to grow, so how do Redwood trees get so big, despite the fact that it gets so dry?
First Grade Next Generation Science Standards
Crosscutting Concept:
Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...
TED Talks
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creatures so low energy? Kenny Coogan describes the physical and...
SciShow
Turns Out "The Lorax" Is Probably a Real Monkey
Scientists found, on a Kenyan plateau, a tree and a monkey that you might just know. But humans make changes, as we often do, and now these small creatures may soon fade from view.
SciShow Kids
The Science of Fall | Compilation | SciShow Kids
The leaves are falling from the trees and the air is getting chilly where Jessi and Squeaks live, which can only mean one thing: it's fall! And to celebrate the season, they've put together a bunch of videos about all the fun things you...
SciShow
Stevie Boebi and Huckleberry the Beaver: SciShow Talk Show
Hank is joined this week by Stevie Boebi, lesbian sex expert and host of her own YouTube channel, as well as Jessi and Huckleberry from Animal Wonders!
MinuteEarth
How Much Air Can A Tree Hold? #TeamTrees
🌲🌲🌲 Go to https://teamtrees.org 🌲🌲🌲 #TeamTrees We reached 20 million, but let's keep on planting! Trees can take an astounding amount of carbon out of the air, which is good, because we need to do that times a trillion....
Bozeman Science
LS4B - Natural Selection
In this video Paul Andersen defines natural selection as differential reproductive success. He then explains how natural selection shapes organisms on our planet through variation and selection. A K-12 teaching progression is also included.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Valentin Hammoudi: How tall can a tree grow?
Reaching heights of over 100 meters, Californian sequoias tower over Earth's other 60,000 tree species. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits: no sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters. So what...