TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor
It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It's official: you've got the flu. It's logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is...
SciShow
What If Your Ears Switched Sides of Your Head?
We can tell which direction a sound is coming from using just two ears, but how do we do that? What would happen if our ears switched sides?
SciShow
Does Your Dog Love You?
You might love your good, sweet pupper, but can you ever truly be sure if they love you back?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How spontaneous brain activity keeps you alive - Nathan S. Jacobs
The wheels in your brain are constantly turning, even when you're asleep or not paying attention. In fact, most of your brain's activities are ones you'd never be aware of - unless they suddenly stopped. Nathan S. Jacobs takes us inside...
SciShow
Is Teletherapy Really Effective?
Remote mental health services have been around for a while, long before the pandemic. So, we've had plenty of time to study how well they work, and there are some encouraging findings.
SciShow
What Causes Food Cravings?
Why do I really, really want ice cream right now? Today we explore the science of food cravings!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne
Working in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, he began his career as a neurologist before pioneering the discipline of psychoanalysis, and his influence towers above that of all other psychologists in the public eye. But was Sigmund...
SciShow
Abilities Evolution Took From Us
A common misconception is that evolution is a long chain of progress, where organisms gain cool, new features over time. However, if a trait doesn't help with survival or reproduction, eventually it can disappear. Here are a few...
SciShow
If You’re Reading This, You’ve Reshaped Your Brain
With hard work and perseverance, we can change the way we process the world, and if you’ve learned how to read, you’ve successfully re-trained an entire area of your brain!
SciShow
Are Sympathy Pains Real?
Some people can truly feel other people’s pain! But even if you aren't someone who can literally feel someone else’s sensations, your connections with people can still do some powerful things.
SciShow
Science to Watch Poolside: A Swimming Summer Compilation
Summer is coming to a close, but there is still time to take a cool, refreshing dip in the water of your choice. Before you do, be sure to check out this swimming compilation to get answers to all the questions you didn’t even know you...
SciShow
3 Great Discoveries of 2014
SciShow News explains the amazing discoveries behind this year’s Nobel Prizes, from the invention that made LED bulbs possible to discovering how our “inner GPS” works!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How does your brain respond to pain? - Karen D. Davis
Everyone experiences pain -- but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different ways? And what exactly is pain, anyway? Karen D. Davis walks you through your brain on pain, illuminating why the "pain experience"...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How close are we to uploading our minds? | Michael S.A. Graziano
Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing to the biological world....
TED Talks
Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
Psychopathic killers are the basis for some must-watch TV, but what really makes them tick? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature (and nurture) of...
SciShow
Why Do You Feel Like You’re Being Watched?
Sometimes it just feels like someone is staring at you, even if you can’t see them. It can be annoying, but our brains have a reason for it.
Crash Course
Language: Crash Course Psychology
You know what's amazing? That we can talk to people, they can make meaning out of it, and then talk back to us. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks to us and tries to make meaning out of how our brains do this thing...
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Your Brain is Plastic
Hank explains the gift that your brain gives you every day: the gift of neural plasticity -- the ways in which your brain actually changes at the cellular level as you learn.
SciShow
The Benefits of Being Easily Distracted
We place a lot of value on productivity, and being distracted can lower your performance on specific tasks. But it turns out that getting distracted once in a while can actually be a good thing!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Evolution's great mystery: Language | Michael Corballis
What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what's in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and...
TED Talks
TED: How your body could become its own diagnostic lab | Aaron Morris
We need an inside-out approach to how we diagnose disease, says immuno-engineer and TED Fellow Aaron Morris. Introducing cutting-edge medical research, he unveils implantable technology that gives real-time, continuous analysis of a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? | Elizabeth Cox
It's 1843, and a debate is raging about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever— no one knows what causes it. One physician has observed patients with inflammation go on to develop childbed fever, and therefore believes...
PBS
Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
The idea that our reality is a simulation is not as far-fetched as you may think. Many philosophers, scientists and tech-billionaires are seriously considering not just the possibility but the high probability that our civilization may...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic
Two thirds of the population believes a myth that has been propagated for over a century: that we use only 10% of our brains. Hardly! Our neuron-dense brains have evolved to use the least amount of energy while carrying the most...