MinutePhysics
Why Aren't There Eclipses Every Month?
The moon orbits the earth once per month, which means the moon is on the sun side of the earth every month. So... "why aren't there eclipses every month?" is a question we will answer in this video!
TED Talks
Addressing Critical Issues Through Political Engagement and Community Action
Scott Galloway addresses a question about the actionable potential of his talk, which connects a dense array of issues and inspires a desire for change. He emphasizes political engagement, support for young people through local...
TED Talks
A Call to Challenge Generational Inequities with Bold Reforms
This conversation between the head of TED, Chris Anderson and NYU professor Scott Galloway explores the widespread impact of Galloway's recent TED talk, which received both overwhelmingly positive feedback and constructive pushback....
PBS
New book ‘Eve’ dispels myths about human evolution and details female body’s role
Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better understanding of our origins with critical...
SciShow
Earth’s other moons
You're familiar with the Moon, but it's not only our moon, depending on your point of view.
PBS
How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
The Nobel prize in physics this year went to black holes. Generally speaking. Specifically, it was shared by the astronomers who revealed to us the Milky Way’s central black hole and by Roger Penrose, who proved that in general...
PBS
The Trebuchet Challenge | Space Time
Kinetic and potential energy are defined as combinations of more basic quantities: position, velocity and mass. These combinations are chosen so that their sum is conserved. It’s actually remarkable that there’s any such combination of...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Whoever builds something here will be rich beyond measure | Fabio Pacucci
Since the 1950s, governments, companies, and researchers have been planting flags among the stars. But while it might seem like there's plenty of room in space, some pieces of celestial real estate are more valuable than others. As far...
SciShow
What Shape Are Black Holes? Yes.
What shape is the event horizon of a black hole? Well, the answer to that question changes if our universe is hiding an extra dimension (or more). Black holes could come in an infinite number of shapes — including a precisely spinning...
SciShow
How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science
You may have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation phenomenon, but it isn't just a fun celebrity game, it helps scientists understand the spread of epidemics, the structure of the internet, and even the neural networks in your brain!
SciShow
The IPBES Report with Brit Garner | SciShow Talk Show
Brit Garner is here to give Hank a breakdown of the May 2019 preview of the IPBES report, and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Kizmit, the African Crested Porcupine.
SciShow
Life-Changing Birdsong
Bird parent's calls can change how their babies develop! And, do you learn faster when playing a game to benefit yourself or other people?
PBS
Dance Helps Parkinson's Patients Harness Therapeutic Power of Movement
Special correspondent Dave Iverson looks a unique program that uses dance as therapy for people with Parkinson's disease.
PBS
Why String Theory is Right
Some see string theory as the one great hope for a theory of everything - that it will unite quantum mechanics and gravity and so unify all of physics into one glorious theory.
3Blue1Brown
Three-dimensional linear transformations: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 5 of 15
How to think of 3x3 matrices as transforming 3d space
PBS
The Geometry of Causality
Using geometry we can not only understand, but visualize how causality dictates the order of events in our universe.
3Blue1Brown
How colliding blocks act like a beam of light...to compute pi.
The third and final part of the block collision sequence.
3Blue1Brown
How colliding blocks act like a beam of light...to compute pi: Colliding Blocks - Part 3 of 3
The third and final part of the block collision sequence.
MinutePhysics
Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox
This video discusses how polarized sunglasses act as quantum measurement devices by demonstrating the strange behavior of light passing through multiple filters. It delves into the concept of quantum entanglement, Bell's theorem, and the...
Bozeman Science
The New AP Biology Exam - A User's Guide
In this video Paul Andersen describes the new AP Biology Exam. This exam will be given for the first time in May of 2013 and will be different from all previous exams. In this video Paul Andersen describes the scoring and the two parts...
PBS
When Pi is Not 3.14
You've always been told that pi is 3.14. This is true, but this number is based on how we measure distance. Find out what happens to pi when we change the way we measure distance.
PBS
The Assassin Puzzle
Imagine you have a square-shaped room, and inside there is an assassin and a target. And suppose that any shot that the assassin takes can ricochet off the walls of the room, just like a ball on a billiard table. Is it possible to...