SciShow
This Tank of Water Could Change Physics Forever
No one has ever conclusively seen a proton turn into other, lighter particles, but fifty million liters of water in Japan might change that and our ideas about subatomic particles forever.
TED Talks
4 tips to kickstart honest conversations at work | Betsy Kauffman
Why is it so hard to speak up and productively disagree at work? Leadership and organization coach Betsy Kauffman shows how to bring the candid conversations that usually happen at the watercooler out into the open with four practical...
SciShow
Will Stress Really Make You Go Gray?
Just like the myth that plucking one gray hair will make three sprout, stress making your hair white isn't actually a thing. Or is it?!
SciShow
When Will We All Die The Statistics of Human Extinction
We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a limited time on this planet. So the question is: when are we gonna go extinct?
TED Talks
David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
An epidemic of bad, inefficient, overcrowded meetings is plaguing the world’s businesses — and making workers miserable. David Grady has some ideas on how to stop it.
PBS
How Two Microbes Changed History
What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing .... and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you?
Bozeman Science
LS4C - Adaptation
In this video Paul Andersen defines adaptations and explains how organisms can become better adapted to their surroundings using the process of natural selection. Specific examples of adaptations, like coat color in rock pocket mice, as...
Be Smart
Zombie Parasites!
Shows like The Walking Dead are full of hungry, mindless, surprisingly fleet-footed armies of brain-eating zombies. Could they actually exist? Are zombies real? Well, maybe if you're talking about zom-bees! This week I introduce you to...
SciShow
Why Do People Go Bald?
How does balding work? Why does it happen? And why are men so much more likely to lose their hair than women? Quick Questions has the answers!
SciShow Kids
How High Can You Stack? Engineering for Kids
Jessi and Squeaks love to build things, and they love to learn how to make the things they build even better! Join them today to learn how engineering can help make anything, from a tower of cups to a giant sky scraper, more stable!
Bozeman Science
Angular Momentum
In this video Paul Andersen explains rotating object have angular momentum. The angular momentum of a point object is the product of the distant from the center of rotation and the linear momentum. The angular momentum of an extended...
TED Talks
Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. In his talk, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.
TED Talks
TED: What it takes to make change | Jacqueline Novogratz
What can you do to build a better world? Sharing stories from her pioneering career dedicated to tackling poverty, Jacqueline Novogratz offers three principles to spark and sustain a moral revolution. Learn how you can commit (or...
TED Talks
TED: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Jonathan Haidt
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The carbon cycle - Nathaniel Manning
What exactly is the carbon cycle? Nathaniel Manning provides a basic look into the cyclical relationship of carbon, humans and the environment.
SciShow
Why Real Avalanches Aren't Like Cartoons
Avalanches can be powerful and dangerous, but not all of them are created equal, and not everything you've seen on TV is likely to actually set one off.
SciShow
How To Build A Space Station
Step one is probably having access to billions of dollars, but what about the following steps?
TED Talks
TED: Confessions of a recovering micromanager | Chieh Huang
Think about the most tired you've ever been at work. It probably wasn't when you stayed late or came home from a road trip -- chances are it was when you had someone looking over your shoulder, watching your each and every move. "If we...
Crash Course
Harriet Martineau Gender Conflict Theory Crash Course Sociology
Today we’re exploring another branch of conflict theory: gender conflict theory, with a look at sociology’s forgotten founder, Harriet Martineau. We’ll also discuss the three waves of feminism, as well as intersectionality.
SciShow Kids
How to Make a Paper Airplane
Learn how to make a great paper airplane, and find out what makes it fly!
TED Talks
TED: What happens when an NGO admits failure | David Damberger
International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger analyzes his own engineering failure in India -- and calls for his friends in the development sector to publicly admit, scrutinize and learn from their...
SciShow
Stardust Discovery, and 2 Planetary Conjunctions
SciShow Space shares the latest developments from around the universe, including news about the first material ever collected from outside the solar system, and a backyard astronomers’ guide to two upcoming planetary conjunctions.
Bozeman Science
Ideal Gas Law
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the pressure, volume, amount, and temperature of an ideal gas are related. Absolute zero of a gas can be determined by varying the temperature and measuring the corresponding volume of a gas...
TED Talks
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives....