Instructional Video3:22
SciShow Kids

What are Boogers?

K - 5th
What’s that stuff up your nose? Does it do anything? SciShow Kids explains the science of boogers!
Instructional Video4:17
SciShow

Airplanes and Other Man-Made Cloud Machines

12th - Higher Ed
What do airplanes, power plants, ships, and explosions have in common? They all make clouds!
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

Juvenoia: The Psychology Behind Millennial Bashing

12th - Higher Ed
If you hate avocado-toast-loving, technology-addicted millennials, you might hate them for the wrong reasons.
Instructional Video17:57
TED Talks

TED: Agile programming -- for your family | Bruce Feiler

12th - Higher Ed
Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and...
Instructional Video1:47
SciShow

Why Does Glitter Stick to Everything?

12th - Higher Ed
Glitter: use it for even the most modest of arts and crafts projects and days later you're still finding it stuck in your hair, behind your ear, and all over your clothes. But how are these little plastic disks so sticky?!
Instructional Video17:09
TED Talks

Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?

12th - Higher Ed
One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’ and ‘adorkable’ fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don't appear in the dictionary. After all, who actually decides which words make it into those...
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

Ultra High-Tech Ways Scientists Might Defeat COVID-19

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are trying a little bit of everything to fight the virus that causes COVID-19, but some researchers are harnessing more than just the usual virus-fighting repertoire, from tiny sponges to viral RNA-destroying bubbles.
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?

12th - Higher Ed
Bdelloid rotifers have a superpower. If their DNA is shredded to pieces, whether from a lack of water or a blast of radiation, they can put it back together.
Instructional Video4:29
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Geckos aren't covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortlessly scale vertical walls and hang from ceilings. What's going on? Eleanor Nelsen explains how geckos' phenomenal feet allow them to defy gravity.
Instructional Video2:18
SciShow

How Do Skiers Win Races?

12th - Higher Ed
Winning an alpine skiing race can come down to a tiny margin, so the skiers have to make sure they prepare their skis just right!
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

How to Stick to Your Resolutions This Year

12th - Higher Ed
Failed at keeping your resolutions in the past? Psychologists have some insights and advice for you to stick to them this year.
Instructional Video3:49
SciShow Kids

The Fastest Punch in the World

K - 5th
There is one ocean creature that is so strong, it could punch its way out of most aquariums, and it's only 30 centimeters long!
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow Kids

How Do Temporary Tattoos Work?

K - 5th
If you’ve ever had a tattoo, you know that putting them on is pretty easy: just press on them with a wet towel for 30 seconds and they stick right on! But there’s a whole lot of science going on in that 30 seconds!
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

How to Form a Habit

12th - Higher Ed
We all have habits we’d love to make or break. Understanding exactly what a habit is might be the best way to start making them work for you.
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow

Fighting COVID-19 With... Llamas?!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have been researching whether or not antibodies from COVID-19 patients might help those infected with the virus, and one study has found promising results, in a llama.
Instructional Video4:33
PBS

Is Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?

12th - Higher Ed
If you're unfamiliar, Homestuck is a webcomic created Andrew Hussie that is over 5000 PAGES so far! In in its own weird way, Homestuck is a lot like James Joyce's Ulysses, where only the strongest, most dedicated readers make it through...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow Kids

Get to Know a Dinosaur!

K - 5th
Do you have any questions about dinosaurs, or anything else about nature, or outer space, or machines?
Instructional Video18:20
TED Talks

Torsten Reil: Animate characters by evolving them

12th - Higher Ed
Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.
Instructional Video20:31
SciShow

Working on Pathfinder: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Hank's friend from grad school, Bryan von Lossberg recounts his time working on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, and Jessi from Animal Wonders surprises us with Goma the red eyed tree frog!
Instructional Video6:25
MinutePhysics

Spacetime Intervals: Not EVERYTHING is Relative | Special Relativity Ch. 7

12th - Higher Ed
This video is chapter 7 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the idea that some things AREN'T relative: there IS a sense of absolute length and absolute time, which can be agreed upon from all moving perspectives (as...
Instructional Video29:34
SciShow

Ammonite Fossils and Sharp Animals w/Kallie from PBS Eons | SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Talk Show all-star Kallie Moore returns to tell us about the exciting things happening over at Eons, and Jessi stops by with not one but two poke-y guests!
Instructional Video10:16
Crash Course

How to Speak With Confidence: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills

12th - Higher Ed
Public speaking isn't easy for everyone. It can be nerve racking and even scary. But, in this episode of Crash Course Business Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us about S.U.C.C.E.S and how we can use it to help us be prepared to speak to a...
Instructional Video2:10
SciShow

How Do Curveballs Change Direction in Midair?

12th - Higher Ed
It’s amazing how professional baseball players can throw very fast curveballs, but do you know how do curveballs change direction in midair?
Instructional Video2:29
MinuteEarth

The Great Acceleration

12th - Higher Ed
We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.