TED Talks
TED: Why all melodies should be free for musicians to use | Damien Riehl
Evoke a familiar tune in a song and get slapped with a lawsuit ... it's a tale almost as old as copyright itself. Lawyer and technologist Damien Riehl digs into why "owning" a melody is a ludicrous legal assertion and composes a radical...
TED Talks
TED: Know your worth, and then ask for it | Casey Brown
Your boss probably isn't paying you what you're worth -- instead, they're paying you what they think you're worth. Take the time to learn how to shape their thinking. Pricing consultant Casey Brown shares helpful stories and learnings...
SciShow
How to Stick to Your Resolutions This Year
Failed at keeping your resolutions in the past? Psychologists have some insights and advice for you to stick to them this year.
TED Talks
TED: How much does a video weigh? | Michael Stevens
What color is a mirror? How much does a video weigh? Michael Stevens, creator of the popular educational YouTube channel Vsauce, spends his day asking quirky questions like these. In this talk he shows how asking the right -- seemingly...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating - Christian Rudder
When two people join a dating website, they are matched according to shared interests and how they answer a number of personal questions. But how do sites calculate the likelihood of a successful relationship? Christian Rudder, one of...
SciShow
The Science of the 36 Questions That Help People Fall in Love
A study that included 36 questions which can allegedly be used to fall in love with a stranger made the news rounds a while back, but the actual science isn’t that simple—and falling in love was never the point of the questions.
TED Talks
TED: Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson
For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a lifetime of irrelevance. While behind bars, Peterson found redemption through a penpal mentorship program...
TED Talks
TED: The beauty and complexity of finding common ground | Matt Trombley
How can we disagree with one another, respectfully and productively? In this thoughtful talk, team builder Matt Trombley reflects on "agonism" -- the tendency to take a rigid stance on issues -- and shares why finding aspects of...
TED Talks
TED: Use your voice, vote and wallet for climate action | Halla Tómasdóttir
Recently back from the COP26 UN climate conference in Scotland, former Icelandic presidential candidate Halla Tómasdóttir sums up the outcomes of the gathering, the progress she saw and the work that's left to be done this way: "The most...
Crash Course
How to Sell Anything: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
It can be hard to strike the right tone or know what’s going to appeal to someone, but there are tricks. We can craft a narrative and use well-placed emotional appeals to tell customers a story. Even if you don’t consider yourself a...
Crash Course
The Problem of Evil: Crash Course Philosophy
After weeks of exploring the existence of nature of god, today Hank explores one of the biggest problems in theism, and possibly the biggest philosophical question humanity faces: why is there evil?
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. "War and Peace" is a long book, sure, but it's also a thrilling examination of...
SciShow
Communication While Dreaming
It’s hard to study dreams because it’s not like you can communicate back and forth with someone while they’re asleep...at least you couldn’t, until now!
SciShow
What That Pig Brain Study Really Tells Us
This month, in a study that has the potential to change the way we think about death, scientists revealed that they successfully restored some processes in the brains of dead pigs -- at least partially. What did the study actually tell...
TED Talks
TED: The military case for sharing knowledge | Stanley McChrystal
When General Stanley McChrystal started fighting al Qaeda in 2003, information and secrets were the lifeblood of his operations. But as the unconventional battle waged on, he began to think that the culture of keeping important...
SciShow
The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission
NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.
SciShow
How Did We Figure Out What a Heart Attack Was?
Heart attacks are the number 1 cause of death worldwide in the 21st century, but we weren't sure what caused them until 1980.
SciShow
Great Minds: Katherine Johnson, Human Computer
In the early days of spaceflight, if NASA needed to plot a rocket's path or confirm a computer's calculations, they knew who to ask: Katherine Johnson.
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Practice 4 - Data Collection Strategies
In this video Paul Andersen describes the science practice of data collection. He begins with a brief description of science and the scientific method. He details concepts related to data collection in each of the four big ideas. He then...
Crash Course
Alan Turing: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie modern computation - the father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Now normally we try to...
MinutePhysics
How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat
How to teleport Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full quantum teleportation procedure, in which an arbitrary qubit (spin, etc) is teleported from Alice to Bob by way of a pair of particles entangled in a bell (EPR) state and...
TED Talks
Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding
Women own 39 percent of all businesses in the US, but female entrepreneurs get only two percent of venture funding. What's causing this gap? Dana Kanze shares research suggesting that it might be the types of questions start-up founders...
SciShow
Why Did We Keep Sealed Moon Samples?
We’ve been sitting on samples of the lunar surface for decades and, with better technology than when they were taken, we are opening them back up to take another look!
SciShow
How Do Desensitizing Toothpastes Work?
Do popsicles give you toothaches? Do you wonder why that special toothpaste makes it all better? We've got you covered!