TED-Ed
TED-ED: Do politics make us irrational? - Jay Van Bavel
Can someone’s political identity actually affect their ability to process information? The answer lies in a cognitive phenomenon known as partisanship. While identifying with social groups is an essential and healthy part of life, it can...
TED Talks
TED: Why we're more honest with machines than people | Anne Scherer
TED talks about why we're more honest with machines than people | Anne Scherer
SciShow
How Do You Define A Disorder?
The tremendous complexity of the human brain makes it difficult for psychologists to pin down exactly how and why things go wrong, so how do we define and diagnose disorders?
Crash Course Kids
Defining Success
In our last episode, Sabrina talked about how Engineers define the problems they need to solve. But how do you know when you've actually solved a problem? What do you expect to happen that would equal success? In this episode, Sabrina...
Bozeman Science
Solving Hardy Weinberg Problems
Paul Andersen shows you how to solve simple Hardy-Weinberg problems. He starts with a brief description of a gene pool and shows you how the formula is derived. He then shows you how to solve a couple of sample problems.
SciShow
IDTIMWYTIM Radiation
Hank explains the whole story about radiation - the good, the extremely helpful, and the bad.
SciShow
Cryonics: Could We Really Bring People Back to Life?
You put a dying person in suspended animation until, possibly thousands of years from now, medical science is able to cure them... or their brain can be put in a sweet robot body. It's an age-old sci-fi trope, but there are scientists...
TED Talks
TED: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon | Ralph Langner
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's...
SciShow
Are Multivitamins Really Good For You?
People spend billions of dollars every year trying to boost their health with multivitamins- but are they actually good for you?
SciShow
There's a Big Problem With Silicon. What's Next?
Silicon transistors allowed computers to shrink from the size of houses to watches in a short time, but engineers are facing a problem: we've almost hit the limit on how small silicon transistors can get.
Bozeman Science
Advanced Genetics
Paul Andersen explains important concepts that can not be explained by simple Mendelian genetics. He begins with a discussion of polygenic inheritance and uses a simulation on height to show how a bell shape curve of phenotypes is...
SciShow
Your Bones Do More Than You Think
Bones, you probably have them and they're for more than holding your body upright.
SciShow Kids
Solve Problems Be an Engineer!
Learn about engineers, who dream up a lot of the things you use every day, from toys to tools!
MinutePhysics
Taming Infinity
In this episode we explain how physicists can tease information out of infinity.
Crash Course
Intro to Algorithms: Crash Course Computer Science
Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this isn’t a new concept. Since the development of math itself algorithms have been needed to help us...
SciShow
Alcoholism: How much is too much?
An excessive amount of alcohol can cause lots of problems, but lots of people drink fairly regularly without any of these problems. So, how do you know when you drink too much?
Crash Course Kids
A Fresh Future
So, how are people fixing their water problems? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about a few different examples how some freshwater sources were good, then bad, then made good again. Also, Sabrina talks about...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Could underwater farms help fight climate change? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis
Dive into the world of aquaculture and see how restorative ocean farming could play a vital role in helping our coastal communities, our oceans and our climate. -- For billions of people, seafood provides a significant source of protein...
TED Talks
TED: The problem with plastics -- and how they're changing the environment | Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez
Plastics are everywhere -- they're in our favorite electronic devices, they package our food and insulate our homes. Today, the total mass of plastic is twice the total mass of all living organisms on the planet, and it's starting to...
TED Talks
TED: A robot that eats pollution | Jonathan Rossiter
Meet the "Row-bot," a robot that cleans up pollution and generates the electricity needed to power itself by swallowing dirty water. Roboticist Jonathan Rossiter explains how this special swimming machine, which uses a microbial fuel...
TED Talks
Shad Begum: How women in Pakistan are creating political change
Activist Shad Begum has spent her life empowering women to live up to their full potential. In a personal talk, she shares her determined struggle to improve the lives of women in her deeply religious and conservative community in...
SciShow
How We Know Star Wars Isn’t A Documentary | Compilation
Plot often trumps reality when portraying space in movies and, as a result, many films are full of inaccuracies. So how much fiction is actually written into some of our favorite movies? Movies mentioned (and potentially spoiled) in this...
TED Talks
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol | Rod Phillips
On January 17, 1920, less than one hour after spirits had become illegal throughout the United States, armed men robbed a Chicago freight train and made off with thousands of dollars worth of whiskey. It was a first taste of the...