MinutePhysics
Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?
If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?
MinutePhysics
Where Do Galaxies Come From?
Thanks to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for supporting this video! In particular, thanks to Dan Coe of STScI for taking the time to chat with me about what we do and don't know about...
MinutePhysics
What if the Earth Were Hollow
What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?
MinutePhysics
TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
SciShow Kids
Antarctica: The Coldest Place on Earth! | SciShow Kids
If you think it's cold outside where you are, you should try living in the coldest place on Earth: Antarctica! Learn why it's a desert even though it's very cold, and about awesome animals like seals and penguins.
SciShow Kids
Exploring Antarctica: From Penguins to the Coldest Seas | SciShow Kids Compilation
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, but there's still a lot to explore, on land and under the waves!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the basketball robot riddle? | Dan Katz
You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate its capabilities. Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill...
SciShow
The First CRISPR Gene Therapy Is Here
CRISPR is a powerful gene editing tool, but its uses have been purely scientific until now. In 2023, US and UK drug regulators including the FDA approved Casgevy, a CRISPR/Cas9-based therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia....
TED Talks
TED: Why are women still taken less seriously than men? | Mary Ann Sieghart
Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously...
SciShow
Is This About To Revolutionize Antidepressants?
Wouldn't it be nice if psychiatrists could stick patients with depression in an EEG and find out what antidepressant, like an SSRI, might be best for them, eliminating months of trial and error? A new study shows how that might be coming...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to overcome your mistakes | TED-Ed
People often describe failure as a teachable moment— a necessary stumble on our way to improvement. But learning from our mistakes isn't always easy, especially when those failures are demoralizing, overwhelming, or just downright...
Curated Video
New and Ancient Lessons from Lunar Eclipses
Ancient perceptions of lunar eclipses weren’t as primitive as one might think. Some rigorous math was applied to these cosmic events that shaped our understanding of the solar system.
PBS
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again. What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful that non-crabs are apparently jealous of it?
Curated Video
Wearable cape turns red in polluted areas
LEAD IN: A cape which flashes through the light spectrum to warn that you are breathing in pollution has been created by an artist for a campaign to raise awareness of the problem.STORY-LINE:This is the "Human Sensor".Part art and part...
Curated Video
WRAP Cleric appears in court for trial verdict, s''bites, reaction
1. Police van arriving at court
2. Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir being led into court
3. Cutaway of security
4. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Abu Bakar Bashir, Muslim cleric:
"George Bush is the master of all evil. George Bush is...
Curated Video
Reverend Al Sharpton says they will continue to fight for a federal grand jury to consider Brown killing
Reverend Al Sharpton called for the shooting of Michael Brown to be put before a federal grand jury during a church service in Ferguson dedicated to the memory of Brown.
Sharpton, a Baptist minister and civil rights activist, said that...
Curated Video
Delegation arrives as pressure mounts for talks to resume
1. Various of Somali Council of Islamic Courts delegates arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Afi, Kenyan Ambassador to Sudan:
"...in order for IGAD (Inter-governmental Authority on Development) to help the League of Arab States in...
Curated Video
WRAP Political analyst on election ADDS ECOWAS observers
1. Various street scenes in Dakar a day after elections
2. Mid of people at news stand
3. Pan across display of newspapers
4. Front page of newspaper announcing incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade's lead
5. Exterior of the West African...
Curated Video
More from Windsor Castle, where the Royal Family are gathered
1. Wide shot people waiting outside castle, pan to entrance
2. Man and girl arriving for Easter service
3. A vicar arriving for service
4. People arriving for service
5. Various police security check
6. Various of people outside
7....
Crash Course Kids
Hunting for Properties
Remember pre-school? If not, IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER! But when you were stacking blocks and figuring out which block went into which shaped hole, you were learning about properties. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about...
MinutePhysics
What if the Earth Were Hollow
What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Which voting system is the best?
Imagine we want to build a new space port at one of four recently settled Martian bases, and are holding a vote to choose its location. Of the 100 colonists on Mars, 42 live on West Base, 26 on North Base, 15 on South Base, and 17 on...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The tale of the doctor who defied Death
A husband and wife were in despair. The woman had just given birth to their 13th child, and the growing family was quickly running out of food and money. Wandering into the woods, the father encountered a skeletal figure with sunken eyes...
Be Smart
A Slice of Pizza Science!
How does math keep a folded slice from drooping? And what does pizza have to do with the speed of light?