Instructional Video3:32
SciShow

LabGrown Meat

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings us the strange story of in vitro meat - muscle tissue grown in laboratories with the hope that someday we will eat it.
Instructional Video11:12
TED Talks

Peter Molyneux: Meet Milo, the virtual boy

12th - Higher Ed
Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and responding to you.
Instructional Video3:51
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: One is one or is it? - Christopher Danielson

Pre-K - Higher Ed
One bag of apples, one apple, one slice of apple -- which of these is one unit? Explore the basic unit of math (explained by a trip to the grocery store!) and discover the many meanings of one.
Instructional Video21:00
TED Talks

David Perry: Are games better than life?

12th - Higher Ed
Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional experiences -- more involving and meaningful to some than real life. With an excerpt...
Instructional Video2:22
SciShow

What Causes Brain Freeze?

12th - Higher Ed
That terrible pain the befalls us when enjoying an icy treat! How does that happen? Is there a cure? Let Hank explain.
Instructional Video6:35
SciShow

When Everything Feels Like a Dream | Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

12th - Higher Ed
It's not rare to feel like we're dreaming, even right after we wake up, but when it sticks around for longer than it should, it can merit its own diagnosis: depersonalization-derealization disorder (DDD). Hank unpacks what this disorder...
Instructional Video9:12
TED Talks

Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine

12th - Higher Ed
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity...
Instructional Video21:44
TED Talks

TED: The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett

12th - Higher Ed
Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.
Instructional Video13:28
TED Talks

TED: What really motivates people to be honest in business | Alexander Wagner

12th - Higher Ed
each year, one in seven large corporations commits fraud. Why? To find out, Alexander Wagner takes us inside the economics, ethics and psychology of doing the right thing. Join him for an introspective journey down the slippery slopes of...
Instructional Video17:04
TED Talks

Sophie Scott: Why we laugh

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that you're 30 times more likely to laugh if you're with somebody else than if you're alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and,...
Instructional Video7:20
TED Talks

TED: What can we learn from shortcuts? | Tom Hulme

12th - Higher Ed
How do you build a product people really want? Allow consumers to be a part of the process. "empathy for what your customers want is probably the biggest leading indicator of business success," says designer Tom Hulme. In this short...
Instructional Video2:01
MinutePhysics

Albert Einstein y la Teoría de la Relatividad Especial

12th - Higher Ed
Hablamos sobre cómo Einstein (et al.) descubrió la Relatividad Especial. ¡Muchas gracias a Marcelo Enrique Anguita Fuentes por apoyarnos en Patreon! Ayudas a que MinutoDeFísica sea posible. ¡Eres el mejor! Siempre tratamos de usar...
Instructional Video3:00
SciShow

Snakes Use Their Spongy Mouths to Drink

12th - Higher Ed
Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, so how do they drink? Turns out, some snakes have sponge-mouths that literally soak up water!
Instructional Video1:54
SciShow

Can Bright Light Make You Sneeze?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow's Quick Questions explains why bright light can make some people sneeze! Really!
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

What the Fox Says

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to a couple of Norwegian musicians, a lot of people have become obsessed with one question: What does the fox say? It turns out that foxes "say" lots of different things depending on the situation, and if you think the song is...
Instructional Video11:59
TED Talks

Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?

12th - Higher Ed
What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? Philosopher Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.
Instructional Video15:11
TED Talks

Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time

12th - Higher Ed
We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with two dancers to build phrases of dance,...
Instructional Video5:28
TED Talks

Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

12th - Higher Ed
Every city has its neighborhoods, cliques and clubs, the hidden lines that join and divide people in the same town. What can we learn about cities by looking at what people share online? Starting with his own home town of Baltimore, Dave...
Instructional Video21:52
TED Talks

Steven Strogatz: The science of sync

12th - Higher Ed
Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.
Instructional Video3:37
Bozeman Science

I See CO2

12th - Higher Ed
Song written by Herman Jolly Vocals: Herman Jolly and Megan Pickerel Programming, Synths, Production and Mixing by Tony Lash Kids: Ruby, Emmet, Lucas, and Mayfiel
Instructional Video3:16
SciShow

3 Neat Facts About Narwhals (Including: They're Real!)

12th - Higher Ed
In case you didn't know, not only are narwhals real, they're rad. Hank shares some little known facts about one of the least understood sea mammals, including some insights into why they're so hard to study, and what that big thing on...
Instructional Video6:10
MinutePhysics

Teoría del Todo: Todas las Fuerzas de la Naturaleza

12th - Higher Ed
Donde explicamos el equilibrio económico, cómo ganar dinero a partir de la nada, y todas las fuerzas fundamentales de la física. DISCLAIMER: La gravedad... es complicada. Todavía no está muy claro que la gravedad funcione del mismo modo...
Instructional Video7:48
TED Talks

TED: The real reason you feel so busy (and what to do about it) | Dorie Clark

12th - Higher Ed
These days, almost all of us feel pressed for time. Leadership expert Dorie Clark shares three hidden reasons people fall into an endless loop of feeling constantly busy, and invites you to question what really motivates how you spend...
Instructional Video3:02
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How do you know you're real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to Rene...