SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: Biocrust with Rebecca Durham
Welcome back to Scishow TalkShow! In this episode Hank learns more about Biocrust explained by Rebecca Durham. Jessi Knudsen Castañeda also brings a ball python named Puzzle.
SciShow
Henrietta Leavitt & the Human Computers: Great Minds
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of a number of volunteer women astronomers who were allowed to serve as "computers" at Harvard College Observatory, doing tedious work male scientists wouldn't do, and ultimately making a discovery now...
TED Talks
Tom Shannon: Anti-gravity sculpture
Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.
TED Talks
David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy....
SciShow Kids
Going to the Doctor's Office with Dr. Aaron Carroll
Squeaks has a doctor's appointment coming up and he's a little nervous, so Jessi asked her friend Dr. Arron Carroll to come over and talk about what happens when you visit the doctor!
TED Talks
TED: This is what enduring love looks like | Alec Soth and Stacey Baker
Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked photographer Alec Soth to help her explore this topic, they found themselves at the world's largest speed-dating event, held in Las Vegas on Valentine's Day, and...
TED Talks
TED: Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark
When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life -- and theirs, says Kio Stark. In this delightful talk, Stark explores the overlooked benefits of pushing past our default...
SciShow Kids
Why Sea Cows Are Awesome? Animal Science for Kids
Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn all about an amazing aquatic mammal you may not have heard of before: the manatee!
SciShow
Tsunamis... From the Sky?
Scientists have developed reliable early warning systems for tsunamis caused by earthquakes. The problem is, earthquakes aren't the only things that cause tsunamis.
Be Smart
Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You
Plants are the most important source of nutrients for pretty much all of Earth's animals, and many of the planet's bacteria and fungi too. Humans like them so much that we line them up in salad bars so we can feast upon their crunchy...
SciShow
How Earth Recycled a Mountain Range
Mountains take can take billions of years to form, but the Adirondack Mountains got ahead by recycling itself.
SciShow
Xenophyophores: The Strange Life of a Giant Single Cell
You may think of single-celled organisms as being microscopically small, but these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that.
SciShow
The Evolution of Spy Satellites
Today we take a look at the history and capabilities of spy satellites.
SciShow
We Solved the Mystery of the Dying Birds
Across the southeastern United States, bald eagles have been dying unexplainedly for the past 25 years. In March of 2021, researchers announced that they had found the killer, and they hope we can use this knowledge to better protect...
MinuteEarth
How Long Did People Use To Live?
By analyzing survivorship curves over the centuries, we can learn what’s changed about how - and when - humans die.
TED Talks
Sam Martin: Claim your "manspace"
Author Sam Martin shares photos of a quirky world hobby that's trending with the XY set: "manspaces." (They're custom-built hangouts where a man can claim a bit of his own territory to work, relax, be himself.) Grab a cold one and enjoy.
SciShow
The Impossibly Huge Quasar Group
In 2013, astronomers reported that they'd found what was, at the time, the biggest thing in the known universe.
SciShow
What If Your Ears Switched Sides of Your Head?
We can tell which direction a sound is coming from using just two ears, but how do we do that? What would happen if our ears switched sides?
TED Talks
John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer
John Gerzema says there's an upside to the recent financial crisis -- the opportunity for positive change. In this talk, he identifies four major cultural shifts driving new consumer behavior and shows how businesses are evolving to...
SciShow
Human Parasites
Hank tells us about all of the things that live on us or in us - the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly.
SciShow
Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star
There are a lot of incredible things in space, but neutron stars are some of the most mind-blowing. From liquid plasma oceans on the surface to a possible neutron superfluid in the core — as you go deeper into a neutron star, the physics...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How will AI change the world? | TED-Ed
In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life— and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the...
SciShow
Why Do You Feel Like You’re Being Watched?
Sometimes it just feels like someone is staring at you, even if you can’t see them. It can be annoying, but our brains have a reason for it.