TED Talks
Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around ... in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of...
MinuteEarth
Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest
The way we experience seasons don't necessarily line up with how they're technically defined - here's why.
3Blue1Brown
Circle Division Solution: Circle Division - Part 2 of 2
Moser's circle problem, and its solution.
Amoeba Sisters
Nature of Science
Explore the nature of science with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses why there is not just one universal scientific method as well as the importance of credible sources when researching. Vocab in experimental design including...
TED Talks
Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an...
PBS
Network Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
The theory of social networks allows us to mathematically model and analyze the relationships between governments, organizations and even the rival factions warring on Game of Thrones.
3Blue1Brown
Higher order derivatives: Essence of Calculus - Part 10 of 11
What is the second derivative? Third derivative? How do you think about these?
MinuteEarth
The Great Acceleration
We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.
3Blue1Brown
Euler's Formula and Graph Duality - Part 2 of 4
A very clever proof of Euler's characteristic formula using spanning trees.
3Blue1Brown
Higher order derivatives | Essence of calculus, chapter 10
What is the second derivative? Third derivative? How do you think about these?
TED Talks
TED: The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg
There's nothing quite like a good night's sleep. What if technology could help us get more out of it? Dan Gartenberg is working on tech that stimulates deep sleep, the most regenerative stage which (among other wonderful things) might...
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution
Mr. Andersen explains Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and describes the bead lab.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? | Dan Finkel
Ragnarok: The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future. The gods were winning until the great serpent Jörmungandr emerged. It swallowed Valhalla and contorted itself across the land. Odin has...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Patterns - Level 4 - Patterns in Data
A mini-lesson about patterns in data.
Crash Course
Unsupervised Machine Learning - Crash Course Statistics
Today we're going to discuss how machine learning can be used to group and label information even if those labels don't exist. We'll explore two types of clustering used in Unsupervised Machine Learning: k-means and Hierarchical...
TED Talks
TED: What's so sexy about math? | Cedric Villani
Hidden truths permeate our world; they're inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries. In this survey of mathematical breakthroughs, Fields Medal winner Cedric Villani speaks to...
Bozeman Science
Linear Momentum
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the linear momentum is equal to the product of the mass of an object and the velocity of the center of mass. He uses video analysis software to calculate the velocity of an object and therefore...
3Blue1Brown
What does area have to do with slope? Essence of Calculus - Part 9 of 11
Derivatives are about slope, and integration is about area. These ideas seem completely different, so why are they inverses?
3Blue1Brown
Binary, Hanoi, and Sierpinski - Part 2 of 2
How counting in Ternary can solve a variant of the Tower's of Hanoi puzzle, and how this gives rise to a beautiful connection to Sierpinski's triangle.
Be Smart
Why Do We Laugh?
Laughing is a universal human behavior, one that transcends borders of language and culture. But it's also REALLY WEIRD. Why do we do it? The answer has less to do with humor than you might think
Bozeman Science
Electric Field of a Sphere
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the electric field strength decreases as the square of the radius as you move away from a point charge, or a uniform distribution of charge on a sphere. This is a direct application of Coulomb's...
3Blue1Brown
Euler's Formula and Graph Duality
A very clever proof of Euler's characteristic formula using spanning trees.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? - Chad Orzel
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time....