SciShow Kids
Where Does Frost Come From? | Winter Science | SciShow Kids
If you've ever gone outside really early on a cold day in fall, you might have seen a thin layer of sparkly ice crystals covering everything! That ice is called frost, and it can only form if the weather is exactly right!
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Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function - Level 2 - Complex Structures
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on complex structures. TERMS Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and connected parts System - a set of components (e.g. things) working...
SciShow
Antimatter Light Spectrum Discovered!
Scientists were able to measure the emission lines of antimatter! And we may have some new clues about how dinosaurs lost their teeth on the way to becoming birds.
PBS
Are Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
You might have heard about the debut of Hologram Tupac at the music festival Coachella earlier this year. But with Queen's recent announcement of a Hologram Freddie Mercury and TLC's plans for a Hologram Lisa Left Eye Lopes, it looks...
3Blue1Brown
What they won't teach you in calculus
A visual for derivatives which generalizes more nicely to topics beyond calculus. Thinking of a function as a transformation, the derivative measure how much that function locally stretches or squishes a given region.
TED Talks
Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school
To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write -- we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics...
Crash Course
Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214
In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of...
SciShow Kids
Recycling Old Crayons! An Earth Day Activity
Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: PS1.B: Chemical Reactions - Heating or cooling a...
TED Talks
Luis H. Zayas: The psychological impact of child separation at the US-Mexico border
How does psychological trauma affect children's developing brains? In this powerful talk, social worker Luis H. Zayas discusses his work with refugees and asylum-seeking families at the US-Mexico border. What emerges is a stunning...
SciShow
Broods, Brains, and Blood: Where Won’t Parasites Go? | Compilation
Parasites. They’re all around us, from birds’ nests to litter boxes to our brains, and while plenty of them are harmful to the health of animals like us, some of them can actually be good!
SciShow Kids
Make Your Own Cartoon! Kids Science Activity
Cartoons are the best! But you know the characters in them aren't real... so how do they move around like that? Today's experiment will teach you all about the different illusions animation uses to trick your brain and bring drawings to...
TED Talks
Emmett Shear: What streaming means for the future of entertainment
In a talk and demo, Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear shares his vision for the future of interactive entertainment -- and explains how video game streaming is helping people build communities online. "I am excited for a world where our...
TED Talks
TED: On the verge of creating synthetic life | Craig Venter
Can we create new life out of our digital universe? Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" -- and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we'll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome. NOTE:...
TED Talks
TED: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malawi, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new...
MinutePhysics
Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
This video is about the famous 'Twins paradox' of special relativity, how time can appear to be faster for two different observers at the same time, and which twin really is older (or younger) - the one who stays on earth or the one who...
SciShow
Laser Fusion Is It Back to the Future Yet
Hank remembers Back to the Future and tells us about his favorite word combination--lasers and fusion.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do buildings fall in earthquakes? - Vicki V. May
Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon, and they've become more deadly as our cities have grown - with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks. But why do buildings collapse in an earthquake? And how can it be...
Crash Course
Defense Against the Dark Arts of Influence: Crash Course Business Soft Skills
How do con artists manage to scam millions? Why do people choose to follow great leaders, or horrible ones? How do CEOs get better deals in the boardroom? Influence. In this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn chats to us about what...
TED Talks
Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the (aptly) short but fascinating history of new...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Which animal has the best eyesight? | Thomas W. Cronin
The animal kingdom boasts an incredible diversity of eyes. Some rotate independently while others have squiggly-shaped pupils. Some have protective lids, others squirt blood. But which creature has the best sight? Which sees best in the...
TED Talks
Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art
Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.
TED Talks
TED: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology | Ani Liu
What if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie? What if you had a lipstick that caused plants to grow where you kiss? Ani Liu explores the intersection of technology and sensory perception, and her work is wedged somewhere between...
SciShow
What Causes Near-Death Experiences?
The light at the end of the tunnel, the peacefulness, your life flashing before your eyes,it's all been documented thoroughly in pop culture. What usually gets left out, though, are the potential scientific explanations for what happens...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom
As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a "failed" academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our...