Are children poor liars? Do you think you can easily detect their lies? Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting as young as two years old, and they're...

Want to get your sweetheart something really special? Give them a mineral called fingerite, and then stare at them for a while! Find out why, in this Valentine's Day edition of SciShow News.

What’s up with ticklishness? And are other animals ticklish, too? Quick Questions has the answers!

When it's time to play in the big game against your fiercest rivals, you might put on your "game face." But how much does this expression affect your opponents? And might you also be affecting yourself?

The 40 or so muscles in the human face can be activated in different combinations to create thousands of expressions. But do these expressions look the same and communicate the same meaning around the world regardless of culture? Is one...

Learn the Top 10 Ways to Communicate Boundaries Assertively. Practice along with the samples in the video! Many people struggle to maintain boundaries, but only YOU can do it. Nobody is going to communicate your boundaries for you.

Howcast - Learn how to interpret your infant's cries from parenting coach Tammy Gold in this Howcast baby care video.

Pupil outcome: I can take digital photographs of different facial expressions. Key learning points: - Understand how facial expressions convey emotion in portraiture. - Practise posing and recognising facial expressions. - Learn basic...

Pupil outcome: I can use tone and colour to express emotions in portraits. Key learning points: - Tone in art refers to the lightness or darkness of a colour. - Facial expressions reflect human emotions. - Colours can be used to convey...

Pupil outcome: I can think from another person or character's perspective. Key learning points: - One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration. - One way of inferring a character's...

Pupil outcome: I can think from characters’ perspectives and ask characters questions. Key learning points: - A character's facial expressions and actions help infer how they feel, such as when Lulu is told she can have a cat - Asking...

Pupil outcome: I can understand and practise techniques for telling a story with charisma. Key learning points: - Telling a story in a charismatic way helps to engage the audience and hold their interest in a narrative throughout. -...

Today my friend Sarah and I are teaching you ASL Slang. Just like in English, ASL has its own idioms and slang that's developed and used by Deaf Communities. In this video we explore about 20 of those...

Are you often overwhelmed by powerful emotions? Do you wish there were some simple, yet effective ways to reduce the emotional overload? Today I’m going to tell you about two remarkably effective techniques that can help you achieve just...

There's been a lot of hype about AI-based emotion recognition. How much is reality?

If you're looking to learn how to sign, you found the right video! In this video we're learning 10 things about ASL that you need to know before starting! Watch this to get a grasp on the big picture, must knows, essentials of American...

This video teaches you everything you need to know about weather signs in ASL. You will learn the signs for weather, storm, tornado, hot, sunny and summer to name a few signs. Stick around to the end for AS phrases and sentences. If you...

Today's video is an important one! Yes, we've talked about the 5 Parameters of signs before, but we've never broken them down like this before. These are 5 essentials rules that you need to know when learning American Sign Language....

So you're learning ASL? Before being able to put your newly discovered ASL signs into sentences you need to understand ASL Grammar. This is a great first lesson in learning grammar for American Sign Language.

HOW TO YELL IN ASL!!! Did you know that you can change the emotional state of a conversation by using one technique that doesn't include changing the signs? That's what we're exploring in todays video. Not just how to yell, but how to...

In this video you'll learn some of the basics in conversational sign language. You'll want to keep these signs "Handy" as you'll use them often when using ASL. All together there are more than 50 signs, but we'll tackle about 25 of them...

Learn how to sign 150 essential ASL signs and phrases. Well, technically this is part 1 of 6, so we'll be learning about 25 signs in this video. Specifically we're learning about ASL common signs and ASL description signs. These are...

Signs are obviously important to Sign Language, but so is facial expression. In today's video I'm going to teach you non-manual signals, also known as facial expression. This is 1 of the 5 parameters of signs which are the fundamentals...

It's time to test your ASL skills with this phrases quiz. This quiz is directly correlated with our 99 Signs Part 1 video, but if you feel confident in your understanding of basic introductory phrases you don't even need to watch the video!