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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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....
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 Video5:22
SciShow

What We Learned from the Kepler Space Telescope - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
October was bittersweet for space scientists as we said goodbye to both the Kepler Space Telescope and Dawn mission.
Instructional Video13:46
3Blue1Brown

Dot products and duality: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 9 of 15

12th - Higher Ed
What is the dot product? What does it represent? Why does it have the formula that it does? All this is explained visually.
Instructional Video12:36
TED Talks

Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

12th - Higher Ed
The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng -- and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better...