TED Talks
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and,...
TED Talks
TED: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge | Julie Taymor
Showing spectacular clips from productions such as Frida, The Tempest and The Lion King, director Julie Taymor describes a life spent immersed in theater and the movies. Filmed right as controversy over her Broadway production of...
SciShow
Why These Weird Carnivores Smell Like Popcorn
If it smells like delicious buttered popcorn when you are in a middle of the forest, it’s not because there’s a movie theater nearby, but Binturongs, arboreal carnivore, might be.
MinuteEarth
Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.
TED Talks
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas...
SciShow
Turns Out "The Lorax" Is Probably a Real Monkey
Scientists found, on a Kenyan plateau, a tree and a monkey that you might just know. But humans make changes, as we often do, and now these small creatures may soon fade from view.
SciShow
7 of Australia's Most Terrifying Inhabitants
If you've spent any time on the internet, you know that Australia is host to all sorts of horrible spiders and snakes. But that doesn't even begin to cover the myriad of dangerous, sometimes deadly, plants and animals you might encounter...
SciShow Kids
The Science of Fall | Compilation | SciShow Kids
The leaves are falling from the trees and the air is getting chilly where Jessi and Squeaks live, which can only mean one thing: it's fall! And to celebrate the season, they've put together a bunch of videos about all the fun things you...
SciShow
Hank and Michael Meet an Alien: SciShow Talk Show #4
In this episode, Michael attempts to stump Hank and then they meet Kemo and Jessi from Animal Wonders.
SciShow
What Did the First Animal Look Like?
If you trace your way back along the tree of life, eventually you'd come face-to-face with the very first animal. But what exactly would that animal have looked like?
3Blue1Brown
Euler's Formula and Graph Duality - Part 2 of 4
A very clever proof of Euler's characteristic formula using spanning trees.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Valentin Hammoudi: How tall can a tree grow?
Reaching heights of over 100 meters, Californian sequoias tower over Earth's other 60,000 tree species. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits: no sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters. So what...
SciShow
Why Do We Keep Planting Trees That Smell Like Semen?
What's that awful smell? Cat urine? Semen? Rancid butter? Possibly one of these gorgeous city trees?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What if there were 1 trillion more trees? | Jean-François Bastin
Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down excess CO2 to restore the balance of greenhouse gases. Like all plants, trees consume...
Be Smart
How Many Trees Are There?
It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.
SciShow Kids
Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton!
There's a birthday party at the fort, for one of history's most important scientists, Isaac Newton!
SciShow
Bringing Back the Lost American Chestnut Tree
American chestnut trees were all over the US at the end of the 19th century until the fungus wiped most of them out. Scientists have been trying to figure out ways to bring those endangered American chestnuts back to their former glory.
SciShow
How do squirrels remember their nuts? #shorts #science
How do squirrels remember their nuts? #shorts #science
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The true story of 'true' - Gina Cooke
The older the word, the longer (and more fascinating) the story. With roots in Old English, 'true' shares etymological ancestors with words like betroth and truce...but also with the word tree. In fact, trees have been metaphors for...
Crash Course Kids
Gravity Compilation
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about Gravity. We'll learn about why we don't fly off into space, what mass has to do with it, how does air resistance work,...
SciShow Kids
Guess That Tree! Science for Kids
Jessi and Squeaks just spent the day hiking and sketching evergreen trees in their field journals! A lot of evergreen trees look pretty similar, but Jessi knows some fun ways to tell them apart. Join us to find out how!
Crash Course Kids
Feed Me: Classifying Organisms
FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first...
TED Talks
TED: The city planting a million trees in two years | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is on a mission to plant a million trees over the next two years, increasing vegetation in her city by fifty percent while shoring up eroding riverbanks and increasing biodiversity....