Instructional Video3:01
SciShow

The Majestic Grolar Bear

12th - Higher Ed
Although polar bears and grizzly bears aren't all that similar and are definitely separate species, they can interbreed and create fertile offspring in the wild. Hank brings us the story of these misfit bears, which he likes to call...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century

12th - Higher Ed
Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base...
Instructional Video4:48
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Where will you be able to live in 20 years? | Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Humanity has always adapted to changing weather and moved to regions that best support cultural lifestyles and livelihoods. However, the rise in extreme weather is endangering coastal communities, and even for those with the resources to...
Instructional Video21:09
TED Talks

Nick Bostrom: How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it

12th - Higher Ed
Humanity is on its way to creating a "black ball": a technological breakthrough that could destroy us all, says philosopher Nick Bostrom. In this incisive, surprisingly light-hearted conversation with Head of TED Chris Anderson, Bostrom...
Instructional Video9:24
SciShow

Distant Volcanoes Collapsed Dozens of Empires

12th - Higher Ed
Volcanoes, climate change, and Chinese history may seem like three phrases spit out of a random word generator, but the three things are more inherently linked than one may assume.
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

Can’t Sleep? Blame the Climate Crisis

12th - Higher Ed
Today, we bring you two surprising effects of the climate crisis: less sleep and more dying trees.
Instructional Video6:48
SciShow

Space News From The Future!

12th - Higher Ed
Today Hank uses his patented prognosticating abilities to tell you about some space news events to watch out for in 2013. What one thing is the Curiosity rover going to spend most of the year doing? Why are we going back to the moon? And...
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

5 Things We Learned About Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
Hank boils down a new report from the United Nations about global warming and tells you five things you really need to know about our warming world.
Instructional Video7:07
SciShow

Cheating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings you news from around the universe, including what you can't blame on global warming, why being unfaithful is hazardous to your health, and how to watch a particularly awesome spectacle coming to a sky near you.
Instructional Video19:55
TED Talks

Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean

12th - Higher Ed
Enric Sala shares glorious images -- and surprising insights and data -- from some of the most pristine areas of the ocean. He shows how we can restore more of our oceans to this healthy, balanced state, and the powerful ecological and...
Instructional Video8:33
TED Talks

TED: Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas | Fred Krupp

12th - Higher Ed
When we talk about greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide gets the most attention -- but methane, which often escapes unseen from pipes and wells, has a far greater immediate impact on global warming. Environmentalist Fred Krupp has an idea to...
Instructional Video3:21
SciShow

4 Science Superlatives of 2014

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News looks at some of the firsts, highests, and lowests of the year in science.
Instructional Video13:07
TED Talks

TED: Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change? | Kate Marvel

12th - Higher Ed
Climate change is real, case closed. But there's still a lot we don't understand about it, and the more we know the better chance we have to slow it down. One still-unknown factor: How might clouds play a part? There's a small hope that...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

Facts About Fracking

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us a summary of the important facts about fracking: what it is, why we do it, and how it actually isn't all butterflies and cupcakes.
Instructional Video19:00
TED Talks

TED: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars | David Deutsch

12th - Higher Ed
Legendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first step toward solving global warming, he says, is to admit that we have a problem.
Instructional Video2:29
MinuteEarth

The Great Acceleration

12th - Higher Ed
We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.
Instructional Video19:55
TED Talks

TED: A comic sendup of TED2006 | Tom Rielly

12th - Higher Ed
Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between...
Instructional Video20:53
TED Talks

Larry Brilliant: The case for optimism

12th - Higher Ed
We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK,...
Instructional Video5:30
Be Smart

What's REALLY Warming the Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
As earth temperatures continue to rise, what's really to blame?
Instructional Video2:22
MinuteEarth

*If We Aren't Too Late

12th - Higher Ed
We’ll each have at least $100,000 more in our piggy banks, on average, if we stop climate change than if we don’t.
Instructional Video3:37
Bozeman Science

I See CO2

12th - Higher Ed
Song written by Herman Jolly Vocals: Herman Jolly and Megan Pickerel Programming, Synths, Production and Mixing by Tony Lash Kids: Ruby, Emmet, Lucas, and Mayfiel
Instructional Video16:41
TED Talks

Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change

12th - Higher Ed
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
Instructional Video6:15
TED Talks

TED: We're worried about local warming ... in your lap | Yossi Vardi

12th - Higher Ed
Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a ballsy lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.
Instructional Video22:56
TED Talks

Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

12th - Higher Ed
Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think -- and might...