MinutePhysics
I Had to Build a Custom Mute Switch for my Violin
This video is about how I designed and made my own custom mute guitar pedal for my clip-on mic and piezo pickup on my violin (fiddle). The mic is an AT Pro35 phantom powered XLR condensor microphone, and the pickup is a Fishman V200...
SciShow
Making Reactions Go Faster Since the 1700s | Great Minds: Elizabeth Fulhame
The chemical process of catalysis happens in a myriad of places in our modern world - from industry to inside your cells. Our knowledge of catalysis today springs from Elizabeth Fulhame, who over 225 years ago became the first person to...
TED Talks
TED: Secrets of the mind and free will -- revealed by magic tricks | Alice Pailhès
Are you in control of your choices? Magic tricks might reveal otherwise, says scientist and illusionist Alice Pailhès. Watch closely as she performs magic tricks that unveil how your brain works, how you can be subtly influenced and what...
MinutePhysics
Are University Admissions Biased? | Simpson's Paradox Part 2
Simpson's Paradox Part 2. This video is about how to tell whether or not university admissions are biased using statistics: aka, it's about Simpson's Paradox again! REFERENCES: Original Berkeley Grad Admissions Paper:...
Crash Course
Neural Networks - Crash Course Statistics
Today we're going to talk big picture about what Neural Networks are and how they work. Neural Networks, which are computer models that act like neurons in the human brain, are really popular right now - they're being used in everything...
SciShow
New Genetic Clues to the Mystery of Your Giant Brain
Big-brained scientists have found the mechanism that may have allowed their brains (and all humans') to get so big.
Crash Course
Intro to Substitution Reactions - Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Substitution reactions can have really powerful effects, both good and bad, in our bodies. You might remember substitution reactions as displacement reactions from general chemistry, but (you guessed it!) in organic chemistry they’re a...
MinutePhysics
Should You Walk or Run When It's Cold?
Is it better to walk or run when it's cold out? If you run, then you have to deal with wind, wind chill, etc, but your body generates more heat. If you stay still, standing or walking slowly, you don't generate as much heat, but don't...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
SciShow
A Year in Space, and the Lunar Eclipse!
Two astronauts are about to embark on the One Year Mission which can help us understand more about the long-term effects of being in space, and there is an upcoming total lunar eclipse (the shortest one this century)!
Crash Course
The Replication Crisis - Crash Course Statistics
Replication (re-running studies to confirm results) and reproducibility (the ability to repeat an analyses on data) have come under fire over the past few years. The foundation of science itself is built upon statistical analysis and yet...
MinutePhysics
What is the Purpose of Life? (Big Picture Ep. 5/5)
This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the universe seems to be. Thanks to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the...
MinutePhysics
Simpson's Paradox
This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's grouped. The paradox can arise in medical studies,...
SciShow
Why Is Yawning Contagious?
When you see someone yawn, you're probably pretty likely to follow suit. But what makes it so contagious?
SciShow
Why Do Some Words Sound So... Lumpy?
Some words just SOUND like the thing they refer to. But are these associations come from the specific culture we were raised in, or is there something more fundamental going on here?
SciShow
Facebook's Secret Psychological Experiment
SciShow News explains the science behind a psychological experiment performed on about seven hundred thousand Facebook users, although none of them knew that they were participating.
MinutePhysics
Can We Predict Everything
Einstein didn't like quantum mechanics because it wasn't able to make perfect predictions... but science is not about what you like, it's about what's true!
SciShow
How to Find Dark Matter with a Billion Pendulums | SciShow News
Are you there Dark Matter? It's me, a billion pendulums.
TED Talks
TED: The transformative role of art during the pandemic | Anne Pasternak
Museums are vessels of memory, knowledge, inspiration and dreams. Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, makes the case for cultural institutions to take a leading role in supporting the world's recovery from COVID-19 -- and...
SciShow
Raccoons Don’t Really Wash Their Food
Raccoons are famous for "washing" their food, but this behavior, called dousing, isn't really about cleanliness.
SciShow
Best Nap Ever: Rotifers Wake Up After 24,000 Years
Tiny creatures called rotifers seem to have no problem continuing their lives after waking from a refreshing 24,000-year nap. And DNA samples from goats that lived 30,000 years ago tell us a bit about how humans were managing them back...
SciShow
Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor
Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some...
MinutePhysics
How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat
How to teleport Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full quantum teleportation procedure, in which an arbitrary qubit (spin, etc) is teleported from Alice to Bob by way of a pair of particles entangled in a bell (EPR) state and...
SciShow
Is Science Reliable
It seems like every few months, there’s some kind of news about problems with the scientific publishing industry. Why does this keep happening? And what can be done to fix the system?