In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she...

When you think of a caterpillar, you probably picture a cute, chubby little critter, chewing on leaves and dreaming of becoming a butterfly. But the whip-fast, razor clawed Hawaiian inchworm is here to challenge those stereotypes.

The pineapple. Sweet, juicy, and kind of painful. What is it about this tropical fruit that seems to bite us back?

When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial ("It won't happen to me") or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it differently. She's taking three...

Halloween is right around the corner and Burger King is celebrating this spooky time with the “nightmare-inducing” burger. But will it really give you nightmares?

An intermittent fasting diet is one of the hippest new nutrition and fitness philosophies, based around the idea that going hungry can be good for your health. Some think it's a weight loss secret that calls upon our ancient evolutionary...

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...

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

For those with a fear of needles, edible vaccines seem like some distant utopian dream, but that dream may soon be a reality... for chickens.

SciShow’s hot take: Peppers don’t produce that spicy goodness for the reason you think!

Old adages can be pretty hit or miss—especially when it comes to medical advice—but it turns out there may actually be some truth to the saying, "feed a cold, starve a fever."

SciShow News explores new research in the world of food, including insights into what causes food addiction, and how a certain flavor might be good for your health.

Mister Brown and Squeaks learn all about the awesome flamingo - and find out what makes them pink!



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Gluten is a sticky protein composite found in cereal grains. Hank gives us some insight into the importance of gluten in history, as well as its impact on health in our own time.

Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian activist with an unusual approach to peace-keeping: Be a tourist. The TED Fellow shows how simple interactions with people in different cultures can erode decades of hate. He starts with Palestinians...

You might know that spicy food can make your mouth feel like it's on fire, but how does it do that?

Your digestive system impacts the rest of your body in all sorts of unexpected ways, from keeping your heart healthy to literally making you feel happier.

Ice cream is a great treat, but you have to eat it slowly! Otherwise, you'll get what some people call a 'brain freeze,' which is a super bad headache that lasts for a couple seconds. But how does ice cream hurt your head?!

FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first...

We can purge our stomachs by vomiting when we consume something that our body thinks might be harmful, but what about animals that can't?

Need a determination boost to complete those New Year's Resolutions (or really any kind of resolution)? Look no further than this compilation of SciShow videos from SciShow of yore.

Adorable, sure, but how are you alive?? Giant pandas present a conservation challenge like no other. Find out how the bears eke out an existence in the wild, and why they're proving so hard to save.

Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but...

Not all animals have a mouth, or even need one to eat! These different feeding strategies can teach us a lot about our ancestors and how they went from not needing a mouth at all to only eating with one.