Crash Course
The Impacts of Social Class: Crash Course Sociology
This week we are building on last week’s outline of American stratification to explore how class differences affect people’s daily lives. We’ll explore variations in everything from values & beliefs to health outcomes, and look at how...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is a vector? - David Huynh
Physicists, air traffic controllers, and video game creators all have at least one thing in common: vectors. But what exactly are they, and why do they matter? David Huynh explains how vectors are a prime example of the elegance, beauty,...
Crash Course Kids
The End Is Only The Beginning
It's the end of this first year of Crash Course Kids and we've learned so many things. In this episode, Sabrina takes us on a tour of some of the ideas we've talked about and how they fit into our lives. Also, what all of these ideas...
SciShow Kids
Glowing Ocean Animals!
Jessi and Squeaks discover some amazing ocean creatures, ones that glow by themselves!
PBS
Why Do We Love Zombies?
Zombies are EVERYWHERE!! Wait, don't panic- we mean in pop culture, not outside your window. But why is that? Bad guys and monsters seem to go through phases: one decade there's a dozen movies about aliens, ten years later it's vampires....
SciShow
How to Take the Best Notes, According to Psychology
It's the beginning of a new semester! We have some psychological tips that can help you to take better notes.
TED Talks
TED: How porn changes the way teens think about sex | Emily F. Rothman
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. "The free, online, mainstream pornography that teenagers are most likely to see is a completely terrible form of...
Crash Course Kids
Measurement Mystery
So now that we know what Properties are, how can we use them to figure things out? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina uses them to solve the mystery of what she tripped over last night. This first series is based on 5th grade...
TED Talks
TED: Why we're storing billions of seeds | Jonathan Drori
In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion...
SciShow
How Dangerous is COVID-19?
You may have heard several different projections about the fatality rate of COVID-19. How do different health organizations come up with these figures, and why do the numbers seem so fluid?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the giant spider riddle? | Dan Finkel
Once every century, the world's greatest spiders gather to compete in a series of grueling games. The winner will become the next arachnomonarch, able to command all the world's spiders to their will. That day is today, and for the first...
Bozeman Science
Matter as a Particle
In this video Paul Andersen explains how matter, like light, can be treated as both a particle and a wave. Louis de Broglie proposed that matter could act as a wave and described the wavelength of matter as a function of Planck's...
TED Talks
Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman
For anyone who believes poetry is stuffy or elitist, Amanda Gorman -- the youngest inaugural poet in US history -- has some characteristically well-chosen words. Poetry is for everyone, she says, and at its core it's all about connection...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The law of conservation of mass - Todd Ramsey
Everything in our universe has mass - from the smallest atom to the largest star. But the amount of mass has remained constant throughout existence even during the birth and death of stars, planets and you. How can the universe grow...
Crash Course
Making Time Management Work for You: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
Most of us struggle with time management. It's normal. But, things need to get done both at work and in your personal life. So, in this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn gives us all some ways to structure our checklist and make...
TED-Ed
What's in the air you breathe? | Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll
Take a deep breath. In a single intake of air, your lungs swell with roughly 25 sextillion molecules, ranging from days-old compounds, to those formed billions of years in the past. In fact, many of the molecules you're breathing were...
TED Talks
TED: The science behind how parents affect child development | Yuko Munakata
Parents, take a deep breath: how your kids turn out isn't fully on you. Of course, parenting plays an important role in shaping who children become, but psychologist Yuko Munakata offers an alternative, research-backed reality that...
Bozeman Science
The Mole
In this video Paul Andersen defines and explains the importance of the mole. The mole is simply a number (like a dozen) used to express the massive number of atoms in matter. It serves as a bridge between the mass of a compound and the...
Crash Course Kids
Defining Gravity
So, if gravity pulls everything down, then why don't things on the bottom of the Earth get pulled down into space? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about gravity and explains that when we talk about gravity pulling...
Bozeman Science
CER - Claim Evidence Reasoning
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the CER framework can be used to give explanations in a science classroom. In order to make a complete explanation a Claim must be supported by Evidence and Reasoning connecting the evidence to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi
For 10,000 years, humanity suffered from the scourge of smallpox. The virus killed almost a third of its victims within two weeks and left survivors horribly scarred. But Simona Zompi commends the brave souls - a Buddhist nun, a boy, a...
Crash Course Kids
The Science of Lunch
Even an empty lunch sack is useful to science. You can examine it and come up with some traits. In this episode, Sabrina chats about things like malleability, hardness, conductivity, and magnetism. And all with lunch! This first series...
Crash Course
Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History
In which Hank and John Green teach you about humanity conquering the Earth. Or at least moving from Africa into the rest of the Earth. As human beings spread out across the world and populations grew, humanity reached a critical mass of...
Crash Course
The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
In business, you need to know how to write. And that involves learning a bunch of things like knowing who you're writing to and what kind of thing you're writing. In this episode of Crash Course Business Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us...