Instructional Video5:19
SciShow

How Different Types of Alcohol Affect Your Emotions

12th - Higher Ed
Despite popular belief, different types of drinks shouldn’t make you feel any differently because they’re all ethanol. Our brains are complicated, though, and there’s more to the story than just the drink itself.
Instructional Video4:52
Be Smart

23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)

12th - Higher Ed
23 Reasons Science Gave Us to be Cheerful
Instructional Video3:00
TED Talks

Malcolm London: "High School Training Ground"

12th - Higher Ed
Young poet, educator and activist Malcolm London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the "oceans of adolescence" who come to school "but never learn to swim," of "masculinity mimicked by...
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

The Wasp That Reprograms Spiders

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have observed a new parasitic behavior between a wasp and a social species of spider, where the spider re-learned an ancestral behavior!
Instructional Video20:56
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Pit Stains & Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
Megan Toenyes, a former SciShow videomaker returns for a showdown with her former employer!
Instructional Video17:37
TED Talks

TED: An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers | Deborah Scranton

12th - Higher Ed
Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq.
Instructional Video16:25
TED Talks

Melinda Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola

12th - Higher Ed
Melinda Gates makes a provocative case: What can nonprofits learn from mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, whose global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- an ice-cold Coke? Maybe...
Instructional Video7:12
TED Talks

TED: Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards

12th - Higher Ed
Life doesn't go from A to B -- it's messy, says sailing legend Tracy Edwards. In this inspiring talk, she tells how she went from teenage misfit to skipper of the first all-female crew in the toughest race on the seas -- and how she now...
Instructional Video22:05
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Battle of the Brains!

12th - Higher Ed
It's the battle of the SciShow Psych Hosts: Brit Garner and Hank Green! Brit came prepared, but can Hank still win the game for his Patron?
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

On Venus, You're Walking on Eggshells | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Earth's thick crust might one of the reasons our planet can support life. But scientists are looking for something a little more brittle.
Instructional Video10:20
SciShow

When Food Goes Bad | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Food can't stay fresh forever. From moldy bread to brown apples, here's the science behind what happens when food goes bad.
Instructional Video12:12
TED Talks

TED: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy | Finn Lutzow-Holm Myrstad

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lutzow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an...
Instructional Video14:02
TED Talks

TED: 3 lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman | Leila Hoteit

12th - Higher Ed
Professional Arab women juggle more responsibilities than their male counterparts, and they face more cultural rigidity than Western women. What can their success teach us about tenacity, competition, priorities and progress? Tracing her...
Instructional Video15:09
TED Talks

Marian Wright Edelman: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty

12th - Higher Ed
What does it take to build a national movement? In a captivating conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Marian Wright Edelman reflects on her path to founding the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 -- from the early influence of...
Instructional Video19:49
TED Talks

Deb Roy: The birth of a word

12th - Higher Ed
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch...
Instructional Video5:53
Bozeman Science

Proper Group Size for Learning

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen describes his philosophy for group size. One is for learning, active and private. Two is for teaching, it goes both ways. Three is for working, the jobs divided. Four is for nothing but wasting the days.
Instructional Video5:50
Be Smart

Pigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat

12th - Higher Ed
A look at the science behind pigeons.
Instructional Video17:43
TED Talks

Colin Powell: Kids need structure

12th - Higher Ed
How can you help kids get a good start? In this heartfelt and personal talk, Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State, asks parents, friends and relatives to support children, starting before they even get to primary school,...
Instructional Video6:29
TED Talks

Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning

12th - Higher Ed
It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules...
Instructional Video17:52
TED Talks

Taryn Simon: The stories behind the bloodlines

12th - Higher Ed
Taryn Simon captures the essence of vast, generation-spanning stories by photographing the descendants of people at the center of the narrative. In this riveting talk she shows a stream of these stories from all over the world,...
Instructional Video12:12
TED Talks

Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

12th - Higher Ed
Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime...
Instructional Video2:45
SciShow

What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Democracy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank fills us in on the democratic ways of the honeybee and makes a request for more interpretive dance in our own political systems.
Instructional Video12:05
TED Talks

TED: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing | Augie Picado

12th - Higher Ed
We've heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the uS are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and Vietnam -- and that protectionism is the best way forward. But those jobs...
Instructional Video13:30
TED Talks

TED: Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy | Yaël Eisenstat

12th - Higher Ed
Lies are more engaging online than truth, says former CIA analyst, diplomat and Facebook employee Yaël Eisenstat. "As long as [social media] algorithms' goals are to keep us engaged, they will feed us the poison that plays to our worst...