Crash Course
The Congress of Vienna: Crash Course European History
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the Enlightenment had liberated the people, and led to...
MinutePhysics
¿De Dónde Vienen Las Galaxias?
¡Muchas gracias al Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) y al Telescopio Espacial James Webb de la NASA por apoyar este vídeo! ¡Muchas gracias a las siguientes personas que nos apoyan en Patreon! Ayudáis a que MinutoDeFísica sea...
TED Talks
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects...
TED Talks
Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about...
3Blue1Brown
Limits, L'Hôpital's rule, and epsilon delta definitions | Essence of calculus, chapter 7
What are limits? How are they defined? How are they used to define the derivative? What is L'Hospital's rule?
SciShow
Do "Game Faces" Really Work in Sports?
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?
SciShow Kids
The Amazing Flag Raiser! | Solving Problems with Engineering | SciShow Kids
Jessi and Squeaks want a way to let their friends know when it's time to play at the Fort, so they work together and use engineering to build a prototype solution! NGSS: ETS1.A : Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems A situation...
SciShow
Is the Mystery of Earths 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved SciShow News
For the last hundred and fifty years or so, geologists have been trying to wrap their heads around the mystery: in some places, the geologic record just seems to jump by over billion years. And last week, a paper was published that may...
TED Talks
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- but Drew Berry wants to change that. He demos his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.
SciShow
What If the Earth Stopped Spinning?
SciShow Space has a disaster movie pitch for Hollywood: what would happen if the earth stopped spinning?
Crash Course
Frankenstein Part II: Crash Course Literature 206
In which John Green continues to teach you about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. You'll learn about romantic vs Romantic, the latter of which is a literary movement. John will also look at a few different critical readings of Frankenstein,...
TED Talks
TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
SciShow
Those Pretty Road Medians May Be Bad for Bugs
Cities have been working hard to transform the areas around roads into healthy habitats for important pollinating insects. And these insects seem to love our roadside landscapes, but these areas might also be luring them to their...
PBS
Is Facebook Changing Our Identity?
With 955,000,000 worldwide users, Facebook seems like just about everyone makes use of the social media giant to connect with friends, share photos, and update everyone they've ever met since grade school about their dinner plans. But...
TED Talks
Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science...
TED Talks
Mark Forsyth: What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak
Most politicians choose their words carefully, to shape the reality they hope to create. But does it work? Etymologist Mark Forsyth shares a few entertaining word-origin stories from British and American history (for instance, did you...
TED Talks
Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future
Robot brains are getting smarter and smarter, but their bodies are often still clunky and unwieldy. Mechanical engineer Christoph Keplinger is designing a new generation of soft, agile robot inspired by a masterpiece of evolution:...
SciShow
Could Dark Matter Stars Exist?
Most of the universe is made up of dark matter, so could it form into stars and galaxies like regular matter?
SciShow
Borderline Personality Disorder: Sorting Fact From Fiction
There are so many persistent myths about Borderline Personality Disorder. But, the reality of being quote “borderline” is much more nuanced — and hopeful. Chapters Borderline Personality Disorder 0:16 identity disturbance 3:11 dialectic...
Crash Course
Testing Your Product and Getting Feedback: Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship
To figure out if an idea is as good as we think it is, we have to talk to our customers. We’ve said it over and over again. We have to ask them what they like, dislike, want, or need, and we want honest feedback about our product or...
TED Talks
TED: The unstoppable walk to political reform | Lawrence Lessig
Seven years ago, Internet activist Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig to take up the fight for political reform. A year after Swartz's tragic death, Lessig continues his campaign to free US politics from the stranglehold of...
SciShow
The Woman Who Changed Drug Development
From a new method of drug design to an antiviral agent for herpes, Gertrude Elion's works totally transformed the world of drug development.
SciShow
What's Up With the 'Alien Megastructure?'
The Kepler space telescope found a star that randomly gets really dim, and some people are suggesting the star's being blocked by a huge alien structure. It's probably not aliens, though.
SciShow
Human Experimentation: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
In the early days of the space race, agency researchers in Russia and at NASA really weren't sure all what would happen to an astronaut in space. They didn't know if a human mind could handle actually seeing Earth or what would happen to...