Crash Course
Nomenclature - Crash Course Chemistry
Ever feel like there's a international team of bad guys changing all of the easily remembered chemical names and turning them into test-failing, number-infused, pain in the neck names? Well... you're not wrong. IUPAC exists but try to...
SciShow
How Computers Find Naked People in Photos
Why isn't the internet just covered in naked people? Algorithms! However, designing them to distinguish between pornography and people in skin tone clothing or swimsuits is harder than you'd think.
SciShow
The Mysterious *Gigantic* Lions That Used to Roam North America
North America used to be home to a cat so large, it may have taken down some of the biggest prey of the last Ice Age.
SciShow
Can Feeling the Love Save Lions? | SciShow News
Can you feel the love tonight? Hopefully scientists can make this the case for the growing numbers of lions in animal sanctuaries.
Amoeba Sisters
Protein Structure and Folding
After a polypeptide is produced in protein synthesis, it's not necessarily a functional protein yet! Explore protein folding that occurs within levels of protein structure with the Amoeba Sisters! Primary, secondary, tertiary, and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How high can you count on your fingers? (Spoiler: much higher than 10) - James Tanton
How high can you count on your fingers? It seems like a question with an obvious answer. After all, most of us have ten fingers -- or to be more precise, eight fingers and two thumbs. This gives us a total of ten digits on our two hands,...
TED Talks
David Rothkopf: How fear drives American politics
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of...
MinuteEarth
Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse.
MinutePhysics
Aliens - Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?
Aliens - Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?
SciShow
Why Did the Rooster Lose Its Penis?
Why did so many birds ditch penises? Maybe it was natural or sexual selection, an accident, or in exchange for something way more useful to them. Whatever the reason, penis loss goes to show that internal fertilization doesn’t require a...
SciShow
6 Animals with Oddly Human Behavior
According to research, some animals act in ways that seem oddly similar to the things we do. Chapters CROWS HOLD GRUDGES 1:50 COWS NEED FRIENDS 2:36 AFRICAN WILD DOGS VOTE 3:59 DOLPHINS GOSSIP 5:29 BEES BECOME PESSIMISTS 6:59 6 PENGUINS...
Crash Course
Biochemical Building Blocks & Fischer and Haworth Projections: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Although we've spent a lot of time in this series looking at human-made organic chemicals, the term "organic chemistry" was originally used to describe molecules isolated from living things. In this episode of Crash Course Organic...
SciShow
What Animal Dominates Earth?
There is a group of animals with more species than any other group, but Earth has such an astonishing variety of life that figuring out which group dominates is tricky.
SciShow
What We Can Learn From 10,000 Pack-Hunting Spiders
Most spiders are solitary creatures, but a few species group up instead, creating giant colonies where they live and hunt together.
Crash Course
How to Identify Molecules - Proton NMR: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
If you were given a chemical and told to identify it, how would you go about doing that? You could look at different factors like color, boiling point, melting point, or smell, but the answer still might not be clear. Thankfully, today...
SciShow
These Death-Defying Salmon Just Keep Spawning
Salmon make a hardcore journey upstream to their spawning grounds to reproduce, and it almost always ends with death. But some live to reproduce again, and more than once!
SciShow
Personalized Cancer Treatment Just Got Harder
Scientists are working to develop personalized cancer treatments, but one obstacle in the way is figuring out how different cells react to one another.
SciShow
Talk Show: Owls and Pigeons
Hank talks with Owl Research Institute founder Denver Holt. Then Jessi introduces the bird lovers to a pigeon. Warning: watch your ears for wing flapping into the microphone.
TED Talks
TED: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids | Deeyah Khan
As the child of an Afghan mother and Pakistani father raised in Norway, Deeyah Khan knows what it's like to be a young person stuck between your community and your country. In this powerful, emotional talk, the filmmaker unearths the...
Bozeman Science
Statistics for Science
Paul Andersen introduces science for the science classroom. He starts with a brief description of Big Data and why it is important that we prepare future scientists to deal intelligently with large amounts of data. He explains the...
SciShow
Does Deep Space Cause Heart Disease?
A bizarre lonely star grows brighter, and we investigate a study that looks at whether astronauts that leave the magnetosphere have higher incidences of heart disease.
Crash Course
Socialization: Crash Course Sociology
Last week we introduced the idea of socialization and today we’re talking a little more about how it works, including an introduction to five main types of socialization. We’ll explore anticipatory socialization from your family, the...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How statistics can be misleading - Mark Liddell
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the...
TED Talks
TED: In defense of dialogue | Jonas Gahr Støre
In politics, it seems counterintuitive to engage in dialogue with violent groups, with radicals and terrorists, and with the states that support them. But Jonas Gahr Støre, the foreign minister of Norway, makes a compelling case for open...