TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do you want to squeeze cute things? | Joshua Paul Dale
Watching a kitten fumbling around, it might feel as if you've never encountered anything so devastatingly adorable in your mortal life. You may want to pet its soft fur and kiss its tiny head. But you may also feel the conflicting...
TED Talks
TED: A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets | Ed Boyden
Neuroengineer ed Boyden wants to know how the tiny biomolecules in our brains generate emotions, thoughts and feelings -- and he wants to find the molecular changes that lead to disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer's. Rather than...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives. But most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce
The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We've all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient itch - but have you ever pondered why we itch in the first place? Is there actually an evolutionary purpose to...
TED Talks
TED: Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish | Prosanta Chakrabarty
TeD Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty explores hidden parts of the world in search of new species of cave-dwelling fish. These subterranean creatures have developed fascinating adaptations, and they provide biological insights into blindness...
SciShow
Surprise! Your Brain Has a Secret Sewer System
Scientists have found a hidden network in the brain, and it might prevent people from developing certain diseases.
MinuteEarth
Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates...
TED Talks
Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime
Here's a shocking statistic: 50 to 80 percent of people in the criminal justice system in the US have had a traumatic brain injury. In the general public, that number is less than five percent. Neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens shares her...
SciShow
The Surprising Connection Between Reading and Rhythm
You might know of dyslexia as a reading disorder, but years of research suggests that people with dyslexia might struggle with processing letters because they also have trouble processing rhythm.
SciShow
How Well Do You Know Your Own Hand?
Tricking your brain isn't just fun,it can be therapeutic, too!
TED Talks
Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!
In this fun, short talk from TEDYouth, lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do. She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding...
SciShow
What's the Hottest Chemical in the World
Adventurous eaters are constantly on the hunt for the next hottest thing, but you definitely don't want to eat the hottest chemical we know of!
Be Smart
How Many Smells Can You Smell?
We walk through life led by our noses. Literally. Because they're on the front of our faces. How does the sense of smell work, and how sensitive are our noses? Why are smell-related memories so vivid? How many different smells could we...
SciShow
What Makes Satisfying Videos Satisfying?
You might have stumbled onto those videos of people cutting sand for 10 minutes or of machines doing a repetitive task and felt an odd sense of satisfaction while watching them. Today, we look at the psychology behind those "oddly...
Crash Course
The Nervous System, Part 3 - Synapses!: Crash Course A&P
We continue our tour of the nervous system with a look at synapses and the crazy stuff cocaine does to your body.
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Table of Contents:
Electrical Synapses Use Ion Currents Over Gap Junctions to Transmit Neurological Signals...
SciShow
Why Do Fetuses Kick So Much?
The feeling of a kicking fetus is perhaps one of the more fun parts of having a baby, but these movements serve a purpose well beyond letting you know that that little thing is in there!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng
When under anesthesia, you can't move, form memories, or -- hopefully -- feel pain. And while it might just seem like you are asleep for that time, you actually aren't. What's going on? Steven Zheng explains what we know about the...
SciShow Kids
Squeaks Loves Music! | SciShow Kids Compilation
Sometimes, Squeaks needs to recharge his batteries. And when he does, he hangs out in his room and listens to his favorite music!
SciShow
Impulse Buying: Why You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
You may have noticed that checkout lines often have whozits and whatzits galore, but your opinion of them mostly depends on how a couple different regions of your brain work.
TED Talks
Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun
A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.
SciShow
How Do You Make Memories?
What if you couldn’t remember anything past 30 seconds? Let us introduce you to a man named Henry Molaison who was diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He couldn’t form new memories.
SciShow
For Some Animals, The World Moves in Slow-Motion
Does your cat have a concept of time? Is it different from a snapping turtle's? Scientists study how animals process sensory information to figure out how they experience time. Spoilers: human kids and adults might experience time...
SciShow
Flavor Science: What's Really in a Pumpkin Spice Latte
If you take a look at an ingredients list, odds are you'll find natural and artificial flavors somewhere in there. Turns out there's a whole science to making your pumpkin spice latte taste like pumpkin spice, or your potato chips taste...
TED Talks
María Neira: This is your brain on air pollution
Air pollution knows no borders -- even in your own body, says public health expert María Neira. In this startling talk, she describes how the microscopic particles and chemicals you breathe affect all your major organs (including your...