Instructional Video4:16
Curated Video

SpaceX announces first private moon passenger

Higher Ed
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever private commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong...
News Clip3:41
Curated Video

Iowa caucus workers: Process works, despite delays

Higher Ed
The Iowa Democratic Party says delays in reporting the outcome of Monday's caucuses were due to a coding issue that has been fixed.
Instructional Video2:03
Associated Press

Dozens of bodies found in trucks at NY funeral home

Higher Ed
Police were called to a Brooklyn funeral home Wednesday after it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks.
News Clip7:25
PBS

Salton Sea Lithium Deposits Could Help EV Transition, Support Economically Devastated Area

12th - Higher Ed
The demand for electric vehicles is surging in the U.S., sparked in part by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act and the subsidies it offers. But a looming supply shortage of lithium threatens to stall the EV transition....
News Clip9:18
PBS

Texas on the front lines of NAFTA negotiations

12th - Higher Ed
President Donald Trump announced this week his plan to renegotiate NAFTA, a free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, citing a loss of jobs in the U.S. But many business owners and politicians in Texas, which shares a border with...
Instructional Video7:44
Crash Course

Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics

12th - Higher Ed
This week Craig Benzine takes a first look at the judicial branch. It's pretty easy to forget that the courts, and the laws that come out of them, affect our lives on a daily basis. But how exactly these decisions are made and where each...
Instructional Video11:35
PBS

Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon

12th - Higher Ed
The second law of thermodynamics - the law that entropy must, on average, increase - has been interpreted as the inevitability of the decay of structure. This is .... misleading. Structure can develop in one region even as the entropy of...
Instructional Video12:13
Crash Course

War and Nation Building in Latin America: Crash Course World History 225

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the nations of Europe, and are found wanting. This is kind of a silly comparison. The rise of...
Instructional Video10:06
PBS

Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

12th - Higher Ed
If you have perfect knowledge of every single particle in the universe, can you use the laws of physics to rewind all the way back to the Big Bang? Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information somehow lost...
Instructional Video12:33
Crash Course

The Economics of Death: Crash Course Econ

12th - Higher Ed
We need to have a talk about your future. You're going to die. We all are. And it's probably going to be expensive. This week on CC Econ, Adriene is talking about the economics of death. Some of the expense is tied to the cost of...
Instructional Video16:35
PBS

Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm

12th - Higher Ed
Classical computers struggle to crack modern encryption. But quantum computers using Shor's Algorithm make short work of RSA cryptography. Find out how.
Instructional Video16:01
3Blue1Brown

The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz: Brachistochrone - Part 1 of 2

12th - Higher Ed
A classic problem that Johann Bernoulli posed to famous mathematicians of his time, such as Newton, and how Bernoulli found an incredibly clever solution using properties of light.
Instructional Video14:05
TED Talks

TED: economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it | Dambisa Moyo

12th - Higher Ed
economic growth is the defining challenge of our time; without it, political and social instability rises, human progress stagnates and societies grow dimmer. But, says economist Dambisa Moyo, dogmatic capitalism isn't creating the...
Instructional Video12:34
PBS

The Mathematics of Quantum Computers

12th - Higher Ed
What is the math behind quantum computers? And why are quantum computers so amazing? Find out on this episode of Infinite Series.
Instructional Video8:46
Crash Course

Psychology of Gaming: Crash Course Games

12th - Higher Ed
So we've talked a lot about what makes games so great in this series, but we haven't really addressed the big question: why do we play games anyway? And well, the answer is pretty complicated, especially when you consider that some...
Instructional Video6:15
TED Talks

TED: The shift we need to stop mass surveillance | Albert Fox Cahn

12th - Higher Ed
Mass surveillance is worse than you think, but the solutions are simpler than you realize, says lawyer, technologist and TED Fellow Albert Fox Cahn. Breaking down the crude tactics law enforcement uses to sweep up massive amounts of data...
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Quantum Computing Breakthrough

12th - Higher Ed
Quantum physics is weird. But quantum computing could be awesome! Learn how scientists took a big leap this week toward making quantum computers a reality.
Instructional Video7:05
SciShow

Man Made Earthquakes and More

12th - Higher Ed
Hank hits you with a ton of news this time - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plans to retrieve Saturn V rocket engines from the bottom of the Atlantic; new research on the impacts from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill to life in the Gulf of...
Instructional Video5:37
TED Talks

TED: How to alter the perception of mental health care in Russia | Olga Kitaina

12th - Higher Ed
During the Soviet Union era, therapy was often used as a tool of political oppression. Since then, Russia has seen major reforms in mental health care -- but stigmas and distrust for the practice still live on. Psychologist and TED...
Instructional Video13:08
Crash Course

Reformation and Consequences: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
The Protestant Reformation didn't exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn't end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were organized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries....
Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Our universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip. -- We know about our universe’s past: the Big Bang theory predicts that all...
Instructional Video4:40
MinutePhysics

How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191

12th - Higher Ed
This video explains how Shor’s Algorithm factors the pseudoprime number 314191 into its prime factors using a quantum computer. The quantum computation relies on the number-theoretic analysis of the factoring problem via modular...
Instructional Video18:42
3Blue1Brown

The impossible chessboard puzzle

12th - Higher Ed
An information puzzle with an interesting twist
Instructional Video2:44
MinutePhysics

How Entropy Powers The Earth (Big Picture Ep. 4/5)

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about how we don't just need energy to power our lives, we need *low entropy* energy! Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! This video is about how we...