Bozeman Science
Thinking in Patterns - Level 3 - Similarities and Differences
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on similarities and differences. TERMS: Patterns - regularity in the world Similarities - alike Difference - not alike Sort - arrange systematically in groups...
SciShow
IDTIMWYTIM Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle might not mean what you think it means: Hank clears things up for us in this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, by distinguishing between the Uncertainty Principle and the Observer Effect, which are often conflated.
SciShow
The Oldest, Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered
Hank reports on the discovery by NASA scientists of the most distant, oldest galaxy ever observed.
SciShow
The Biggest Comet Ever Found is Headed Our Way
Scientists are discovering new objects in the solar system all the time. Most of these are small asteroids or icy bodies, but researchers recently spotted something unexpectedly huge heading our way.
TED Talks
Arthur Ganson: Moving sculpture
Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.
TED Talks
Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style? In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist -- starting from age 8 -- and his idiosyncratic way of thinking...
TED Talks
TED: Weaving narratives in museum galleries | Thomas P. Campbell
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not...
TED Talks
Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city...
TED Talks
Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without
Legendary sculptor Antony Gormley riffs on space and the human form. His works explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies -- and the exterior space we feel around us, knowing that we are just dots in space and time.
TED Talks
Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless"...
MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth Explains: Stuff That...Isn’t
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we find out that lots of what we thought we knew about the world around us isn’t quite right.
SciShow
We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
SciShow
The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine's Origins
An asteroid streaked across Arizona's night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
SciShow
Blazars Are A Thing
Hank explains how quasars and blazars are both the same thing - just oriented differently in respect to us - and how that impacts the way we perceive them and how it also effects the ways we can study them.
TED Talks
Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work...
Bozeman Science
PS4A - Wave Properties
In this video Paul Andersen describes some of the properties of waves. He starts be identifying particles and waves as the only phenomenon that can transfer energy from place to place. He identifies the defining characteristics of waves;...
TED Talks
Wayne McGregor: A choreographer's creative process in real time
We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with two dancers to build phrases of dance,...
SciShow
Why Is It So Hard to Fix Traffic?
Fixing traffic seems easy—just add more roads, right? Turns out that this is a problem studied by physicists and psychologists alike, with no easy answers.
SciShow
The JWST Pictures You Haven’t Seen Yet
The James Webb Space Telescope released its first official batch of photos to the public, but they weren't the first images the telescope captured since they had taken a bunch while testing the cameras. Let's talk about some of those...
MinutePhysics
The Brown Dwarf Debate
Thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project and the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the line between Brown dwarfs and gas giant planets (aka super Jupiter's): does it exist?...
TED-Ed
How does ultrasound work? | Jacques S. Abramowicz
In a dark cave, bats can't see much. But even with their eyes shut, they can navigate rocky topography at incredible speeds. This is because bats aren't just guided by their eyes, but rather, by their ears. It may seem impossible to see...
SciShow
Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3
Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics with a description of gravitation -the interaction by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to that of their masses, and which is responsible for...
MinutePhysics
What is Gravity?
In this episode, we discuss the basic nature of gravity, one of the four fundamental forces in our universe.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do jetpacks work? And why don't we all have them? | Richard Browning
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin piloted a spacecraft in humanity's first manned space flight. A week later, Bell Aerosystems debuted a gas-powered rocket pack that could fly 35 meters in 13 seconds. Unfortunately, engineers knew this short flight...