TED Talks
TED: The future of money | Neha Narula
What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ethereum. We're...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
Dolphins are one of the smartest animal species on Earth. In fact, their encephalization quotient (their brain size compared to the average for their body size) is second only to humans. But exactly how smart are they? Lori Marino...
SciShow
How U.S. Airports Might Revamp Security... Using Game Theory
For the past few years, airports have been working with game theorists to step up their security game.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar
Out of billions of galaxies and billions of stars, how do we find Earth-like habitable worlds? What is essential to support life as we know it? Ariel Anbar provides a checklist for finding life on other planets.
SciShow Kids
Explore an Ice Cave! Geology for Kids
Learn about some cool, chilly, spaces with Jessi and Squeaks!
Bozeman Science
Position vs. Time Graph - Part 2
Mr. Andersen shows you how to read a position vs. time graph to determine the velocity of an object. Objects that are accelerating are covered in this podcast. He also introduces the tangent line (or the magic pen).
SciShow
3 Ways Science Can Bust Art Forgeries
Some works of art can be worth thousands, even millions, of dollars. But what if you aren't so sure that Van Gogh you just bought to hang over your toilet is the real deal? Luckily, we can use science to sniff out fakes!
SciShow
The Biggest Sloth That Ever Lived, and 6 Other Gigantic Animals
Sometimes it seems like the past favored large animals, but it turns out that each one on this list has a different reason for its size. Chapters View all Carboniferous & Permian periods 360 251 million years ago 1:04 DRAGONFLY Credit:...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez
Imagine you were asked to invent something new. It could be whatever you want, made from anything you choose, in any shape or size. That kind of creative freedom sounds so liberating, doesn't it?
Crash Course
Mean, Median, and Mode Measures of Central Tendency - Crash Course Statistics
Today we’re going to talk about measures of central tendency - those are the numbers that tend to hang out in the middle of our data: the mean, the median, and mode. All of these numbers can be called “averages” and they’re the numbers...
SciShow
Why Can't My Cat See a Treat in Front of Her Face?
Cats are known for having fantastic night vision, but why is it during the day my cats can't see the treat that I'm putting right in front of them?
SciShow
Can Moons Have Moons?
We all know that many planets have moons orbiting them, but is it possible for those moons have little moons of their own?
SciShow
Is Australia Trying to Kill You
Australia: An entire continent so infested with deadly creepy crawlies and creatures of all kinds, it seems like it’s actively trying to kill you. But is the natural world really any more dangerous down under than anywhere else?
SciShow
What Would Earth Be Like Without a Moon?
SciShow Space takes to you a world where the night is always dark, the tides are paltry -- and the days are only 8 hours long. See how different Earth would be if there were no moon!
Bozeman Science
Gravitational Forces
In this video Paul Andersen explains how gravitational forces differ from the other three fundamental forces; electromagnetic, strong, and weak. Gravitational forces are always attractive and operate at all scales. Even though...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: History through the eyes of the potato - Leo Bear-McGuinness
Baked or fried, boiled or roasted, as chips or fries; at some point in your life you've probably eaten a potato. But potatoes have played a much more significant role in our history than just that of the dietary staple we have come to...
TED Talks
Adam Sadowsky: How to engineer a viral music video
The band OK Go dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine...
MinuteEarth
Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
India and China have so many people today because they’re good for farming and big, but they’ve always been that way, so they’ve actually had a huge proportion of Earth’s people for thousands of years.
SciShow
6 of the Biggest Single-Celled Organisms
When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, there are some huge exceptions to this rule. And we really do mean huge. Chapters Stentor coeruleus 1:27 Gromia...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How squids outsmart their predators - Carly Anne York
There are about 500 species of squid, and they live in all the world's oceans, making them a reliable food source for whales, dolphins, sharks, seabirds, fish - and even other squid. As a result, the squid's most extraordinary...
Be Smart
How Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
Ocean plastic pollution is a massive environmental problem. Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the ocean every year, even plastic that goes in the trash can often ends up in the sea! This week we learn about the Great Pacific...
Crash Course
How to Engineer Health - Drug Discovery & Delivery: Crash Course Engineering #36
Engineers are problem solvers, and our own health is full of problems to be engineered. In this episode we discuss drug discovery and drug delivery. We’ll explore everything from classical and reverse pharmacology to the new field of...
SciShow
Why Aren't There Giant Insects
Hank and physiologist Jon Harrison discuss the question of insect size and major theories that attempt to explain why there is a limit to how large insects can get with current conditions on Earth.
PBS
How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
The days of oil may be numbered, but there's another natural resource that's never been touched, Asteroids.