3Blue1Brown
Taylor series: Essence of Calculus - Part 11 of 11
Taylor series are extremely useful in engineering and math, but what are they? This video shows why they're useful, and how to make sense of the formula.
SciShow
Is the Y Chromosome Disappearing?
Scientists know that the Y chromosome has been shrinking in size over millions of years, but recent studies suggest that it has more important genes, besides the ones that cause biological maleness.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function: Level 5 - Molecular-Level Structures
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on molecular-level structures. TERMS Molecular-level structures - locations of atoms in a molecule Function - an activity or purpose for a thing Properties - any...
3Blue1Brown
Visualizing the chain rule and product rule | Essence of calculus, chapter 4
The product rule and chain rule in calculus can feel like they were pulled out of thin air, but is there an intuitive way to think about them?
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function - Level 1 - Structure and Function
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on structure and function. TERMS Structure - parts in a material object Function - an activity or purpose for a thing Shape - external form of an object Stability -...
3Blue1Brown
Solving the heat equation: Differential Equations - Part 3 of 5
Solving the heat equation.
SciShow
4 Common Misconceptions About OCD
The term "OCD" often gets thrown around lightly by people describing their affinity for neatness, but actual obsessive-compulsive disorder is a serious condition that goes well beyond just cleaning and counting.
SciShow Kids
Dimetrodon, the Animal With a Sail! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Jessi use their pretend time machine to go way back in time and meet a creature even older than dinosaurs, called Dimetrodon! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way...
PBS
Martian Evolution
What will become of humanity after spend a few hundred years on Mars? What will happen after a few thousand? Evolution has, and still is, shaping humanity in rather drastic ways. How long will humans stop being human and become Martian?
3Blue1Brown
What does area have to do with slope? | Essence of calculus, chapter 9
Derivatives are about slope, and integration is about area. These ideas seem completely different, so why are they inverses?
3Blue1Brown
Dot products and duality | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 7
What is the dot product? What does it represent? Why does it have the formula that it does? All this is explained visually.
SciShow
Why Some DNA Is Selfish
Your DNA is a part of you, but it might not share your sense of who's numero uno.
SciShow
Is Mind Control Possible? | Compilation
The human brain is complex and awe-inspiring, so of course we have been trying to figure out how to control it. From electricity to light, here are some of the ways we have attempted to command our wrinkly thinkers.
3Blue1Brown
Visualizing the chain rule and product rule | Chapter 4, Essence of calculus
The product rule and chain rule in calculus can feel like they were pulled out of thin air, but is there an intuitive way to think about them?
3Blue1Brown
Solving Wordle using information theory
An exploration for writing a Wordle solver, with the challenge of not using the official list of Wordle answers (except as a test set), which is really just an excuse for an information theory lesson.
Crash Course
Graphical User Interfaces: Crash Course Computer Science
Today, we're going to discuss the critical role graphical user interfaces, or GUIs played in the adoption of computers. Before the mid 1980's the most common way people could interact with their devices was through command line...
3Blue1Brown
The Essence of Calculus - Part 1 of 11
An overview of what calculus is all about, with an emphasis on making it seem like something students could discover for themselves. The central example is that of rediscovering the formula for a circle's area, and how this is an...
3Blue1Brown
Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep learning, chapter 2
An overview of gradient descent in the context of neural networks. This is a method used widely throughout machine learning for optimizing how a computer performs on certain tasks.
3Blue1Brown
But what *is* a Neural Network? | Chapter 1, deep learning
An overview of what a neural network is, introduced in the context of recognizing hand-written digits.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function - Level 2 - Complex Structures
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on complex structures. TERMS Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and connected parts System - a set of components (e.g. things) working...
3Blue1Brown
But how does bitcoin actually work?
How does bitcoin work? What is a "block chain"? What problem is this system trying to solve, and how does it use the tools of cryptography to do so?
SciShow
The Delightful Mutation Behind Siamese Cats
It's easy to assume a cat's coat pattern is based exclusively on genetics, but that isn't entirely the case for Siamese cats. Their unique coloration comes from a combination of genetics, a fragile enzyme, and losing heat from little...