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4 Amazing Science Experiments for a Day Inside | Compilation | SciShow Kids
Squeaks is very bored, so he shows Mister Brown some of his favorite rainy day experiments!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder - Joelle Maletis
Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts...
SciShow
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Male Birth Control Pill?
A safe, reversible option for male birth control has eluded scientists for decades, but a new pill is showing a lot of promise!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel
We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Your muscles also need your constant attention, because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow....
SciShow
Your Brain on Retail Therapy
After a bad day, you might feel like you deserve a treat and order that pair of shoes you've had your eye on. But psychologists have wondered if that impulse purchase can end up leaving you feeling more unfulfilled than happy.
PBS
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The moon illusion - Andrew Vanden Heuvel
Have you noticed how the full moon looks bigger on the horizon than high overhead? Actually, the two images are exactly the same size -- so why do we perceive them differently? Scientists aren't sure, but there are plenty of intriguing...
Crash Course
Media & the Mind: Crash Course Media Literacy
First thing’s first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we’re going to use it to explore our media saturated world.
SciShow
How Auditory Illusions Trick Your Brain into Hearing Things
Your brain relies a lot on context to tell you what sounds are bouncing around in your ears, and without enough of that context it can get a little confused.
SciShow
A Blood Test for Brain Damage, and AI Eye Doctors
This week the FDA approves the first ever blood test for diagnosing concussions, and a group of scientists develop a neural network that could save you a trip to the eye doctor.
SciShow
Where Did Werewolf Myths Come From
Werewolves might not be real, but the myths about them could have come from real scientific phenomena, like a misunderstanding of certain illnesses.
Amoeba Sisters
Endocrine System
Explore the endocrine system with the Amoeba Sisters! This video briefly discusses endocrine vs exocrine before showing major endocrine glands and discussing examples of hormones released by each gland. Video also provides an example of...
SciShow
Why We Don't Like to Wait
It can be frustrating to get stuck in line somewhere with no end to your wait in sight, but what about waiting is it that gets under our skin?
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Is there a disease that makes us love cats? - Jaap de Roode
Today, about a third of the world's population is infected with a strange disease called toxoplasmosis - and most of them never even know it. And while the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do our brains process speech? | Gareth Gaskell
The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches...
SciShow
We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works
Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.
SciShow
Why Do Cat Eyes Glow in the Dark?
Those eerie shining orbs staring at you from the bushes when you take the trash out at night could be any number of animals, but why do their eyes glow like that?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinc
Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around. Are our bodies built for such a sedentary existence? Murat Dalkilin�c...
SciShow
Why Do We Have Blind Spots?
Your brain is lying to you about what you see-- find out why in this Quick Question!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli
When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar
Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart-right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of...
SciShow
What This Video Will Do to Your Friends' Brains
The way your brain reacts to stimuli might tell us more about who you're friends with, and swatting at mosquitoes might one day bring us positive results.
TED Talks
Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.
SciShow
Why can't you tickle yourself?
You might be susceptible to "tickle attacks," but have you ever wondered why you can't tickle yourself?