Instructional Video21:48
TED Talks

Paula Scher: Great design is serious, not solemn

12th - Higher Ed
Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary career.
Instructional Video4:13
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Can you solve the river crossing riddle? - Lisa Winer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Can you help them figure out how to get across...
Instructional Video16:34
SciShow

Quiz Show: SciShow Host Showdown

12th - Higher Ed
Hank Green and Michael Aranda must put their knowledge of hearing, seeing, and tasting to the test in order to win this quiz show written and hosted by the inimitable Blake de Pastino and his sidekick, Smart Blake.
Instructional Video15:32
TED Talks

TED: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure | Astro Teller

12th - Higher Ed
Great dreams aren't just visions, says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real." The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller takes us inside the "moonshot factory," as it's called, where his team seeks to...
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is sending a robot to Saturn’s giant moon Titan and instead of landing, orbiting, or driving when it gets there, this mission will fly.
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video2:36
SciShow

The Truth About the Charlie Charlie Challenge

12th - Higher Ed
We may not be sure who’s behind it, but we can tell you that the Charlie Charlie Challenge doesn’t really work. Because physics.Very, very special thanks to Henry Reich of Minute Physics for helping with the content of this video.
Instructional Video4:58
Be Smart

The Far Future of the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
SPOILERS: It doesn't end well.
Instructional Video5:08
PBS

What Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?

12th - Higher Ed
People love Santa. Christmas is the largest holiday in western culture, and Santa Claus is the centerpiece of that holiday (sorry baby Jesus). But even though our understanding of Santa changes as we mature, we still maintain and...
Instructional Video8:03
TED Talks

TED: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel | Rodin Lyasoff

12th - Higher Ed
Flight is about to get a lot more personal, says aviation entrepreneur Rodin Lyasoff. In this visionary talk, he imagines a new golden age of air travel in which small, autonomous air taxis allow us to bypass traffic jams and...
Instructional Video19:12
TED Talks

Liz Diller: The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture

12th - Higher Ed
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
Instructional Video18:31
TED Talks

James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table

12th - Higher Ed
Join Rev. James Forbes at the dinner table of his Southern childhood, where his mother and father taught him what compassion really means day to day -- sharing with those who need love.
Instructional Video6:50
TED Talks

TED: Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities | Stephen DeBerry

12th - Higher Ed
What do communities on the social, economic and environmental margins have in common? For one thing, they tend to be on the east sides of cities. In this short talk about a surprising insight, anthropologist and venture capitalist...
Instructional Video5:19
TED Talks

TED: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps | Christina Wallace

12th - Higher Ed
Let's face it, online dating can suck. So many potential people, so much time wasted -- is it even worth it? Podcaster and entrepreneur Christina Wallace thinks so, if you do it right. In a funny, practical talk, Wallace shares how she...
Instructional Video17:10
TED Talks

Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor for the web's future

12th - Higher Ed
The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it's more like the early days of the electric industry.
Instructional Video15:34
TED Talks

TED: 6 ways to save the internet | Roger McNamee

12th - Higher Ed
The next big shift is now, and it's not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. Tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.
Instructional Video7:40
3Blue1Brown

Triangle of Power

12th - Higher Ed
Logarithms are confusing, but perhaps some alternate notation could make them more intuitive.
Instructional Video7:03
MinutePhysics

Time Travel in Fiction Rundown

12th - Higher Ed
For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison of different fictional time travels – some do use wormholes, some relativistic/faster than light travel with time dilation, some...
Instructional Video14:56
TED Talks

TED: In praise of conflict | Jonathan Marks

12th - Higher Ed
Conflict is bad; compromise, consensus and collaboration are good -- or so we're told. Lawyer and bioethicist Jonathan Marks challenges this conventional wisdom, showing how governments can jeopardize public health, human rights and the...
Instructional Video16:25
TED Talks

Sheila Patek: The shrimp with a kick!

12th - Higher Ed
Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.
Instructional Video17:25
TED Talks

Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view

12th - Higher Ed
What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view.
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Has Stephen Hawking Solved a Black Hole Paradox?

12th - Higher Ed
Stephen Hawking recently announced that he'd come up with an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. But it'll probably be a while before we know exactly what it is.
Instructional Video11:26
TED Talks

TED: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city Ryan Gravel

12th - Higher Ed
Urban planner Ryan Gravel shares the story of how his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, rallied to build a massive urban park that will transform an abandoned railroad track into 22 miles of public green space called the Atlanta BeltLine....
Instructional Video11:27
TED Talks

TED: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city | Ryan Gravel

12th - Higher Ed
urban planner Ryan Gravel shares the story of how his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, rallied to build a massive urban park that will transform an abandoned railroad track into 22 miles of public green space called the Atlanta BeltLine....