TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler
A mother and son trek across an endless desert. Wearing special suits to dissipate heat and recycle moisture, the travelers aren’t worried about dying of thirst. Their fears are much greater. Soon, the sound of the desert is drowned out...
SciShow
5 Sci-Fi Futures We Actually Have to Worry About
5 Sci-Fi Futures We Actually Have to Worry About
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The paradox of value - Akshita Agarwal
Imagine you're on a game show and you can choose between two prizes: a diamond - or a bottle of water. It's an easy choice _ the diamonds are more valuable. But if given the same choice when you were dehydrated in the desert, after...
TED Talks
TED: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies | Natasha Hurley-Walker
Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the...
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.
Crash Course
Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth: Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been...
TED Talks
Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Life of an astronaut - Jerry Carr
Astronaut Jerry Carr knows space. As commander of Skylab, he spent over 2000 hours in space, orbiting the Earth over 1000 times. Recounting his life story, Carr remembers the enchanting years he spent at NASA. Lesson by Jerry Carr,...
SciShow
Brain Frames and a Harris's Hawk: SciShow Talk Show #9
Today on the SciShow Talk Show, our Technical Director Nick Jenkins stumps Hank about how many frames per second the human eye can see, and Jessi from Animal Wonders shares Hara the Harris's hawk.
SciShow
Where Do Camels Store Their Water?
When camels drink, they do so at a rate that would kill most other animals. But where does all of that water go? Hint: It's not their humps!
SciShow
Geological Misfits: 4 Small Weird Places
There are some places on our planet that seem pretty ordinary, they’re just… weirdly small. Like, a miniature desert, or a teensy volcano. But when you look a little closer, there’s a lot more to these tiny geological misfits than meets...
SciShow Kids
Life Under The Ice with Ariel Waldman! | A Field Trip to Antarctica! | SciShow Kids
Mister Brown gets a video message from his friend, Ariel Waldman, a real scientist who went all the way to Antarctica to study life that lives under the ice!
SciShow
9 Animals That Will Outlive Us
Lack of food, no sunlight and nuclear disaster might mean the end of the world for humans, but these 9 animals just might make it.
SciShow
Sniffing Out a Seabird in the Desert
Scientists have been searching for the hard-to-find nests of Storm Petrels in order to protect them, but first, they'll have to follow their nose.
TED Talks
Keith Bellows: The camel's hump
Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton...
SciShow
What If Earth Spun the Other Way?
How different would things be if Earth had always rotated in the opposite direction?
SciShow
How Continent-Sized Dust Storms Form
In the future, we may see more continent-sized dust storms like the one nicknamed Godzilla, which crossed the Atlantic ocean in 2020. And since then, researchers have been looking into what caused such a colossal storm. If we can predict...
SciShow
8 Survival Myths That Will Definitely Make Things Worse
You might think you know how to survive if you end up stranded in the wild, but those tips you read on the internet might just make things worse! Some tips seem too good to be true, and they are. Others are ingrained enough to be common...
SciShow
The Freezing Dunes of Northern Canada
When you think "sand dunes" you probably wouldn't think to look up in the northern reaches of Canada, but there lies one of earth's most unique habitats.
SciShow
5 Reasons to Dustbust, Even in Space
There are many types of dust with some surprising things floating around in them, from poop to bacteria. And these dusts can take an extreme toll on your health
SciShow
What Happens If You Go Without Water?
Ever wondered what happens to your body if you don't get enough water? Our bodies are mostly water by weight, so in today's episode of SciShow Hank explains what happens to your body as it starts to shut down when you go without that...
TED Talks
Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These ancient aqueducts and stepwells are still used today -- and are often...
SciShow
Solar Energy
Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out | Lucas C. Majure
If you were a jackrabbit in the desert, you'd be glad to stumble across a cactus: the flesh of these plants is a water source for many animals. Known for their spines and succulent stems, cacti of all shapes and sizes have evolved to not...