TED Talks
TED: How to tie your shoes | Terry Moore
Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way.
SciShow
Laser Fusion Is It Back to the Future Yet
Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
MinutePhysics
How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191
This video explains how Shor’s Algorithm factors the pseudoprime number 314191 into its prime factors using a quantum computer. The quantum computation relies on the number-theoretic analysis of the factoring problem via modular...
TED Talks
Leon Marchal: The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals
The UN predicts that antimicrobial resistance will be our biggest killer by 2050. "That should really scare the hell out of all of us," says bioprocess engineer Leon Marchal. He's working on an urgently needed solution: transforming the...
Bozeman Science
PS3A - Definitions of Energy
In this video Paul Andersen attempts to explain the age old questions - What is Energy? Even though it comes in many forms one of the defining characteristics of energy is that it is conserved over time. He then explains that all energy...
TED Talks
TED: The legacy of racial injustice in the US criminal legal system | Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers
In an engaging, insightful conversation, criminal justice reformer Nick Turner breaks down the ways the US criminal legal system perpetuates centuries-old racial and economic inequality. He joins TED current affairs curator Whitney...
SciShow
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
If men can't nurse, then why do they have nipples? The answer has less to do with evolution and more to do with your personal development as a teeny tiny embryo. Short version: We're all girls -- at least at first. Hank explains!
TED Talks
Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists
Journalist Andrew Marantz spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls and social media propagandists, seeking out the people who are propelling fringe talking points into the heart of conversation online and trying to...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Matter - Level 2 - Matter and Matter Transport
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on matter and matter transport. TERMS Matter - physical substances System - a set of components (e.g. things) working together Transport - to move or transfer from...
Crash Course
Let's Make an AI that Destroys Video Games
Today we create a game and then build an AI to destroy it. Our game is called TrashBlaster, and it’s like Asteroids but with trash in the ocean, and instead of a spaceship John Green Bot is wielding a laser. We'll use machine learning...
SciShow
Studying Polar Bears from a Monster Truck | SciShow Talk Show
BJ Kirschhoffer from Polar Bears International discusses polar bear behavior and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on an animal that lives near polar bears, an arctic fox!
PBS
The Geometry of SET
In the card game SET, what is the maximum number of cards you can deal that might not contain a SET?
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function: Level 4 - Structures at Varying Scale
in this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on INSERTTITLEHERE. TERMS Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and connected parts Microscopic structures - structures that are so small it...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How to make your writing funnier - Cheri Steinkellner
Did you ever notice how many jokes start with _Did you ever notice?" And what's the deal with "What's the deal?" There's a lot of funny to be found simply by noticing the ordinary, everyday things you don't ordinarily notice every day....
Bozeman Science
Kinetic Reaction Control
In this video Paul Andersen explains how a spontaneous process may take either the thermodynamically controlled or the kinetic controlled pathway. If the activation energy determines the path taken then the process is under kinetic...
TED Talks
TED: 7 tools for building a business people trust | Marcos Aguiar
Why do we trust some companies and not others? Using real-world examples, digital trust advisor Marcos Aguiar decodes this make-or-break quality -- and offers seven tools to help leaders design a foundation of trust into their business...
PBS
What Do Stars Sound Like?
We can now map the interiors of stars by "listening" to their harmonies as they vibrate with seismic waves.
SciShow
8 Beautiful, Weird, and Scary Things Ice Can Do
Frozen water molecules don’t seem to be all that interesting. But, these eight weird things that ice can do are truly mind-boggling. Chapters View all ICE SPIKES 0:40 FROST QUAKES 2:36 FROST FLOWERS: LAND 3:26 FROST FLOWERS: SEA ICE 4:22...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Scale: Level 4 - Scale Models
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on thinking in scale. TERMS Phenomena - observable events in the natural world (require explanations) Time - an irreversible series of events Space - the dimensions...
3Blue1Brown
e^(iπ) in 3.14 minutes, using dynamics | DE5
A quick explanation of e^(pi i) in terms of motion and differential equations
SciShow
Why Don't Birds Have Vertical Tails Like Airplanes?
How do you tell a plane from a bird? The vertical tail, of course! By why can birds fly without a vertical tail, and how do planes use their vertical tails to stay in the air?
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Should you trust unanimous decisions? - Derek Abbott
Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they glimpsed fleeing the scene. If six of them pick the same person, there's a good chance that's the culprit. And if all ten do, you might think the case...
SciShow
How Earth’s Tides Gave Us Life As We Know It
While astronomers are busy searching for life beyond Earth, they’ve also started asking another question: If life seems so difficult to find, then why is our world so full of it? One answer might be overhead right now: the Moon!
TED Talks
TED: How games make kids smarter | Gabe Zichermann
Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking.