Be Smart
The Only Animal That Weeps
Why do we cry? It's weird. Humans leak water out of their faces when they get sad. Are we the only animals that do this? What does it mean? What is it for? Here's the science of human tears!
SciShow
5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)
In the animal kingdom, sleeping can be dangerous. Lying completely motionless and unconscious for hours at a time is just asking for trouble. There are, however, some sleepy risk-takers who spend almost all of their days snoozing.
SciShow
Beautiful Baby Brains! | Compilation
It may seem like there isn’t a lot going on in a baby’s brain. But as we continue to study them and our relationship with them, we begin to understand more about the complexities behind those big eyes, and this compilation takes a look...
TED Talks
TED: An Olympic champion's unwavering advocacy for mothers in sports | Allyson Felix
Getting pregnant as a track and field athlete is often called the "kiss of death" -- a sign your athletic career will soon end. Olympic champion, entrepreneur and proud mother Allyson Felix thinks it shouldn't be that way. She tells the...
SciShow
Why Is That Baby Staring at Me?
That baby is staring at you, and you don't know why. Something in your teeth? Did you accidentally leave a tag on your clothes? Don't worry,that baby probably just likes your face.
TED Talks
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show...
SciShow
How You Affect Other People’s Brain Waves - Inter-Brain Connections
Scientists know that things like people’s heart rates, breathing, and even footfalls tend to line up when they’re doing things together, but we're learning that even the electrical activity in your brain can sync up too!
SciShow
How Your Baby Changes Your Brain
You might feel overwhelmed, and have no idea what you're doing when you first have a baby, but evolution has prepared you to take care of your kids.
Crash Course
Hermes and Loki and Tricksters Part 2: Crash Course World Mythology
In which Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about tricksters. In this episode, we're talking about tricksters as culture heroes. Basically, a culture hero is someone whose creativity adds to their mythological culture. We'll learn how...
SciShow
Does Music Really Make Babies Smarter?
There's a myth out there that music will make your baby smarter. But it turns out that Mozart will not turn your baby into Einstein.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The language of lying - Noah Zandan
We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we've spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more...
SciShow
Why Pregnancy Makes You Forgetful... but Helps Your Baby
Baby brain, pregnancy brain, momnesia—the fogginess that can appear during pregnancy goes by many names, but memory loss is only one of the changes that occurs while the brain prepares for an upcoming baby.
SciShow
Could a Vaccine Prevent Type 1 Diabetes?
Measles, mumps, and polio are things we can prevent with vaccines, but scientists are looking to add a surprising entry to that list: Type 1 diabetes.
TED Talks
Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix
Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform.
TED Talks
TED: Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and time, says poet and freedom fighter Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa. Performing her poem "The Joys of Motherhood," Katwiwa explores the...
SciShow
Why Do We Have Baby Teeth?
What's up with baby teeth? Do other animals have them, and what are they good for -- other than squeezing money out of the tooth fairy? We have the answers!
SciShow
7 Extreme Animal Moms
From changing diapers to cleaning up vomit, human parents can have it tough, but at least they don't have to incubate their babies under their skin or liquify their own guts to feed their brood like these animal moms do! In honor of...
TED Talks
TED: The social animal | David Brooks
Columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't...
SciShow Kids
5 Animal Valentines! | Valentine's Day | A SciShow Kids Compilation
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Jessi and Squeaks got Valentines from their awesome animal friends all over the world! Hang out with them as they read some silly Valentine poems and learn about the animals that sent them!
TED Talks
TED: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine | Chris Milk
Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind everything he does. In this short, charming talk, he shows some of his...
SciShow Kids
Why Do We Have Belly Buttons?
Everyone has one, but how did it get there? Learn all about your belly button!
SciShow
What Megalodon’s Teeth Say About Their Parenting
A shark's teeth usually says "stay away", but we can learn a lot from them, including what type of parents they were.
TED Talks
Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids
The global fertility rate, or the number of children per woman, has halved over the last 50 years. What will having fewer babies mean for the future of humanity? In this funny, eye-opening talk, journalist (and self-described exhausted...
TED Talks
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby
Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide...