Curated Video
NC Family Loses Everything in Matthew Floods
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus064728Hurricane Matthew stayed off the North Carolina coast, but for Frankie McLaughlin and his family of 10 now living in a shelter, the storm took just about everything, he said. McLaughlin, who...
Curated Video
Merkel visits Niger to strengthen bilateral ties
Germany can build a military logistics base in Niger as it seeks to strengthen the fight against extremism in the West African country and in neighbouring Mali, Niger's president said on Monday.President Mahamadou Issoufou spoke...
Curated Video
National Border Patrol Council Endorses Trump
US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump on Friday received the endorsement of the 16,500-person National Border Patrol Council at Trump Tower in New York.Shortly after the endorsement, Trump met with nearly two dozen members of his...
Curated Video
Kerry reax to Santos' Nobel peace prize
US Secretary of State John Kerry congratulated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on "winning the Nobel Prize for his courageous efforts to try to bring peace to Colombia."Kerry said he hopes the country will "get over the hurdles...
Curated Video
Santos comments after Nobel peace prize win
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decade civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people - and said he received the award in the name of the Colombian...
Curated Video
NC Residents Assess Matthew's Devastation
Skies cleared on Sunday over much of North Carolina, but the danger posed by Hurricane Matthew was likely to remain through at least the end of the week, when rivers could top or come close to records set 16 years ago by Hurricane...
PBS
Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
There is a fundamental limit to the knowability of the universe. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle tells us that the more precisely we try to define one property, the less definable is its counterpart. Knowing a particle's location...
Crash Course
Los Angeles Uprisings: Crash Course Black American History #45
In this episode of Black American History, Clint Smith teaches you about the complicated history of racial tension in South Central Los Angeles. You'll learn about the Watts Rebellion of 1965, a 6-day uprising in response to police...
MinutePhysics
Do Cause and Effect Really Exist? (Big Picture Ep. 2/5)
Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! This video is about why there's no such thing as cause and effect at the level of fundamental particle physics, and how our...
PBS
Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
By choosing the right path and the right reference frames, any superluminal motion can lead to information or objects returning to their origin before they depart.
Crash Course
Life Begins Crash Course Big History 4
In which Hank and John Green teach you about life on Earth. They won't be giving advice on how life should be lived, because this is a history series. Instead, they'll teach you about the earliest forms of life on Earth, and some of the...
TED Talks
TED: The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski
The real reason you buy insurance may have as much to do with pleasing your psyche as it does protecting your wallet. Behavioral psychologist Orit Tykocinski explores the connection between insurance and the reality-distorting risks of...
Crash Course
Selma: Crash Course Film Criticism
Selma tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the greatest non-violent protests in U.S. history. Ava DuVernay directs this historical drama that captured hearts and minds but also made us ask some questions about historical...
Crash Course
World Cinema - Part 1: Crash Course Film History
The world is a big place and cinema isn't limited to just the U.S. and Europe. There are a lot of vibrant and influential film movements and cultures from all over the world. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, Craig talks to...
SciShow
4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics
The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Scale: Level 4 - Scale Models
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on thinking in scale. TERMS Phenomena - observable events in the natural world (require explanations) Time - an irreversible series of events Space - the dimensions...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Causation - Level 4 - Cause, Mechanism and Effect
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on cause, mechanism and effect. TERMS: Cause - a thing that gives rise to an event Effect - an event Mechanism - the process underlying a phenomenon System - a set of...
SciShow
The Solar System Might Have a New Dwarf Planet! SciShow News
After observing what we thought was just a big asteroid in the asteroid belt, a team of astronomers now thinks this might qualify as a dwarf planet. And scientists had the chance to directly observe the collision of two neutron stars for...
SciShow
This Planet Used to Be the Core of a Gas Giant? | SciShow News
Scientists may have found the light from two merging black holes, and a gas giant, without the gas.
SciShow
Walrus Flash Mob & 20 Years of Pot Research
35,000 walruses all hanging out at the same beach in Alaska? Why? Does global warming have anything to do with it? And what have we learned after 20 years of studying the effects of marijuana? SciShow News explains.
MinuteEarth
Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?
Considering humans' increased impact on the environment, we may want to reconsider whether there is still a place in our legal system for the Act of God defense. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The benefits of daydreaming | Elizabeth Cox
On a daily basis, you spend between a third and half of your waking hours daydreaming. That may sound like a huge waste of time, but scientists think it must have some purpose, or humans wouldn't have evolved to do so much of it. So,...
SciShow
The “Devil’s Staircase” Shows Why Earthquakes Are Hard to Predict
Devastating earthquakes happen every year, and it's difficult to predict when they will happen. But they do follow one mathematical pattern known as the Devil's staircase.
SciShow
How a Storm Triggered a City-Wide Asthma Attack
A very weird way a thunderstorm might kill you.