Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

Room Temperature Is A Lie

12th - Higher Ed
An entire field of science is dedicated to identifying the perfect indoor temperature. And it's a lot more complicated than simply setting the thermostat to 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit).
Instructional Video5:00
Be Smart

Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!
Instructional Video2:47
SciShow

Why Don't Humans Have a Mating Season?

12th - Higher Ed
Unlike lots of other animals, there’s no such thing as the “mating season” for humans, and it might have to do with how we raise our kids.
Instructional Video6:32
SciShow Kids

How Does Food Get to Our Stomachs and More Answers to Your Questions! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
This week, Mister Brown joins Squeaks to answer a bunch more of your questions about the Earth and about our bodies!
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

Seasonal Genes & The Science of Fear

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow News, we explore how our genes change with the seasons! Plus, it turns out that even flies get scared sometimes.
Instructional Video2:41
SciShow

Why Don't Humans Have a Mating Season?

12th - Higher Ed
Unlike lots of other animals, there’s no such thing as the “mating season” for humans, and it might have to do with how we raise our kids.
Instructional Video7:31
Be Smart

The Science of Game of Thrones

12th - Higher Ed
You know nothing.
Instructional Video5:49
PBS

The Calendar, Australia & White Christmas

12th - Higher Ed
Australia will perpetually encounter the season opposite to the one we in the northern hemisphere will encounter, so does this means that Australia will never get a white Christmas?
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

Something Is Creating and Removing Oxygen on Mars - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen levels in the Martian atmosphere are mysteriously inconsistent, and scientists don’t have a clear explanation for what’s behind the changes. Meanwhile, scientists DO have explanations for the tiger-like stripes on one of Saturn’s...
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

First Kisses and Spring!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank explores the science behind the first kiss -- and all the kisses that come after it -- and also sets you straight about the vernal equinox, what it is, and why this year's is special!
Instructional Video14:13
SciShow Kids

The Science of Spring!

K - 5th
It's finally spring where Jessi and Squeaks live! Join them as they take a look back at some of their favorite springtime subjects like why it rains, how plants grow, and all the amazing bugs you can find in the spring!
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

What Are Seasons Like On Other Planets

12th - Higher Ed
Ever wonder what seasons are like on other planets? Astronomers are beginning to find out, and SciShow Space explains how they know, what causes the change in seasons, and what 'summer' might mean on distant worlds.
Instructional Video3:33
Crash Course Kids

Why No Polar Pineapples

3rd - 8th
Plants are amazing. Really! Photosynthesis is an incredible thing. But it also means that some plants can't live everywhere. They need to get the right amount of sunlight for the right amount of time. In this episode of Crash Course...
Instructional Video2:47
MinuteEarth

Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest

12th - Higher Ed
The way we experience seasons don't necessarily line up with how they're technically defined - here's why.
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

Fun in the Summer Sun… on Saturn

12th - Higher Ed
For 13 years, the Cassini probe circled Saturn and sent back fascinating data about the seasons of Saturn as it moved through a 29 Earth year Saturnian year.
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Tatooine Discovered?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
Instructional Video12:10
PBS

Is an Ice Age Coming?

12th - Higher Ed
We're living in a brief window of time where our planet isn't frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we've come to know as "normal" continue? This episode looks at how the changes in...
Instructional Video4:45
Be Smart

How Science Defines A Year

12th - Higher Ed
It's been one (tropical/sidereal/anomalous) year since I uploaded the very first It's Okay To Be Smart. Here's everything that's happened since!
Instructional Video4:07
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Tracking grizzly bears from space - David Laskin

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Grizzly bears stick to a mostly vegetarian diet in sync with plant growing seasons. However, as grizzlies' habitats grow smaller, food is harder to come by. Using NASA satellites, scientists track the shifting, interrelated patterns of...
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

Why Do We Get the Winter Blues? Seasonal Affective Disorder

12th - Higher Ed
Humans may not hibernate, exactly, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're totally unaffected by the changing of seasons.
Instructional Video3:33
SciShow Kids

Happy Equinox! | Science for Kids

K - 5th
It's spring where Jessi and Squeaks live, and with the spring comes a really cool part of our planet's journey around the sun: the spring equinox!
Instructional Video3:53
SciShow

What Would Earth Be Like Without a Moon?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes to you a world where the night is always dark, the tides are paltry -- and the days are only 8 hours long. See how different Earth would be if there were no moon!
Instructional Video3:02
Be Smart

Why Seasons Make No Sense

12th - Higher Ed
Day by day, country by country, we tend to measure seasons differently.
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

Can We Change Earth’s Orbit?

12th - Higher Ed
Climate change is a big problem, but could we solve it by giving the earth a little nudge?