Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

Why Do Manatees Die When Power Plants Shut Down?

12th - Higher Ed
While the Florida manatee is threatened by human activity in a myriad of ways, perhaps the most surprising among those threats is the closing of aging power plants.
Instructional Video2:36
SciShow

Why Do We Have Such Crooked Teeth?

12th - Higher Ed
A lot of humans need or want braces to fix their crooked teeth, but why do you never see a dog walking down the street with headgear? Our ancient ancestors and mac and cheese may be to blame!
Instructional Video11:00
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: With the SciShow Space Reid Reimers!

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, where SciShow Space co-hosts Hank and Reid are back for another round!
Instructional Video7:13
SciShow

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
Instructional Video14:50
TED Talks

TED: How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee

12th - Higher Ed
AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how...
Instructional Video19:28
TED Talks

Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"

12th - Higher Ed
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to...
Instructional Video17:47
TED Talks

Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human

12th - Higher Ed
In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive...
Instructional Video15:27
TED Talks

TED: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti

12th - Higher Ed
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more...
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

Does Your Cockatiel Have an Accent?

12th - Higher Ed
Dialects are a part of how we communicate, but it also turns out that many animals have dialects depending on what part of the world they live in.
Instructional Video8:34
SciShow

What We Know About the New Coronavirus January 2020

12th - Higher Ed
The WHO has declared the new coronavirus a global public health emergency—but that doesn't mean you should panic.
Instructional Video2:33
SciShow

Why Do Humans Have Butts?

12th - Higher Ed
If you've been wondering why we have butts, wonder no more! We have an answer for you.
Instructional Video20:44
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: Dr. Amanda Duley, Brains, & Joy the Macaw

12th - Higher Ed
Dr. Amanda Duley of the spectrUM Discovery Area's BrainLab joins the show to share some of the activities that visitors of the lab get to experience and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Joy the blue-and-gold macaw.
Instructional Video13:21
TED Talks

Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans

12th - Higher Ed
Water is essential to life. Yet in the eyes of the law, it remains largely unprotected -- leaving many communities without access to safe drinking water, says legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting...
Instructional Video22:20
TED Talks

Juan Enriquez: The life code that will reshape the future

12th - Higher Ed
Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics.
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

The Amazing Humanoid Diving Robot

12th - Higher Ed
Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.
Instructional Video3:47
SciShow

The Science of Screaming, And What Was the Biggest Dinosaur?

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.
Instructional Video1:39
SciShow

How Much Humanity Weighs

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us a summary of a strange new calculation, which estimates the total body mass of all the humans on earth.
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

Should You Worry About Antarctica's New, Massive Iceberg?

12th - Higher Ed
How concerned are scientists about the Larson C ice shelf calving its most recent iceberg? Archeologists have also found new evidence that confirms earlier dates for the existence of ancient Australian humans.
Instructional Video5:19
SciShow

Can This AI Hear Alzheimer’s on the Phone?

12th - Higher Ed
It can be tough to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, but a team of researchers believes that artificial intelligence might be able to do it just by listening.
Instructional Video14:17
TED Talks

Steven Wise: Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights

12th - Higher Ed
Chimpanzees are people too, you know. Ok, not exactly. But lawyer Steven Wise has spent the last 30 years working to change these animals' status from "things" to "persons." It's not a matter of legal semantics; as he describes in this...
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

The People Who Lived in Denisova Cave | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Once upon a time, we coexisted with other human species. And there’s one place on Earth that may have taught us more about that than any other single site.
Instructional Video8:39
SciShow

The Science of Dreaming

12th - Higher Ed
Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...
Instructional Video3:42
SciShow

6 Surprising Blood-Drinking Animals

12th - Higher Ed
Hank introduces us to 6 blood-drinking (or otherwise consuming) animals that you may not be aware of. Don't freak out... Chapters VAMPIRE BAT 1:35 LAMPREY 1:52 HOOD MOCKING BIRD 2:20 THE VAMPIRE FINCH 2:46 BUTTERFLIES 2:56 HUMANS 3:22
Instructional Video3:52
SciShow

The Fish With Human Teeth

12th - Higher Ed
A fish with eerily human-like teeth was caught in a New Jersey lake. And scientists have learned to speak Bird!