Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

Bessie Coleman was a trailblazing aviator and the first African American woman and first Native American woman to hold a pilot's license. Born in 1892 in Texas, Bessie faced racial and gender barriers in her pursuit of aviation. She...

The United States is essentially a two-party system, unlike other democracies around the world where people can vote for political parties representing many different interests. Is that a good or a bad thing?

We learned about how altruism can evolve in certain species, which involves cooperative behavior among closely-related organisms to enhance the inclusive fitness of the group. But this is also achieved through spiteful behavior towards...

At the end of the Civil War, the United States was still a very divided place. 700,000 people had died in a bitter fight over slavery. Reconstruction was the political process meant to bring the country back together. It was also the...

Este programa de video de acción en vivo es acerca de la palabra carnívoro. El programa está diseñado para reforzar y apoyar la comprensión y retención de la palabra carnívoro, por parte del estudiante, a través del uso de videos,...

Work through this practice GCSE / K12 question on atomic number, atomic mass and electronic configuration. Read the question, and hit pause if you want to try answering it yourself. Then hit play again to watch how the teacher solves it.

As animals, we owe a lot to the single-celled organisms that came before us. These are the organisms that laid the chemical groundwork for how we live, from the DNA and proteins within them to the molecules they released into the...

In our final episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank discusses the ideas of Aggression and Altruism. These two things are difficult to understand and explain so sit tight and get ready to run the gauntlet of human emotions....

This video builds on the genetic work of Mendel and takes the student through additional genetic discoveries made in the twentieth century. The Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment are plainly illustrated. The notions...

At least 3 percent of the population is thought to have some form of synesthesia—the phenomenon of blended senses, where a stimulus, like letters or numbers, can trigger a nominally unrelated sensation, like color or sound....

“Altruism originates from group behavior and all else is commentary,” says the accomplished biologist E.O. Wilson. This program explores why humans cooperate and what makes that helping hand unique when compared with animals. Watch the...

Jennifer French was paralyzed after a skiing accident grievously injured her spine. But advances in electronic implants have helped this Paralympian stand again—enough for her to do her daily chores, look friends and family in the eye,...

Though many animals display cooperative behavior, human cooperation is distinct. Alan Alda hosts E.O. Wilson, Sarah Hrdy and other leading evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and humanitarians as they examine the origins and...

Eric Bell, Veteran Employment Program Manager at NSF and a retired Army Veteran, talks about the Veteran Employment Program and the opportunities available for veterans in a variety of fields at NSF.