Instructional Video4:29
SciShow

What Happened to the Juno Spacecraft?

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is a trooper as it continues its 2-year-long mission.
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

Found Dozens of Ancient Cryovolcanoes on Ceres! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists may have discovered up to 31 more cryovolcano remnants on Ceres, and the Iridium flares are slowly being allowed to burn up in our atmosphere, so see them while you still can!
Instructional Video11:22
Crash Course

Asteroids

12th - Higher Ed
Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between...
Instructional Video10:39
Crash Course

Hearing & Balance: Crash Course A&P

12th - Higher Ed
Crash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This...
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

Why Do Some People Love Horror Movies?

12th - Higher Ed
Fear is strong negative feeling and a good way for our brains to keep us out of danger, so why do some people seek it out by watching horror movies?
Instructional Video11:46
Crash Course

Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #9

12th - Higher Ed
The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results. But just because information is new, or algorithmically determined to be...
Instructional Video4:18
MinutePhysics

Tutorial - Creating the Sound of Hydrogen

12th - Higher Ed
In this tutorial I show how I synthesized the sound of hydrogen for the "Sound of Hydrogen" video using mathematica - it's a little technical, but you've been requesting it!
Instructional Video12:46
Crash Course

The Red Summer of 1919: Crash Course Black American History

12th - Higher Ed
During the Red Summer of 1919 violence against Black people broke out across the United States. Black people and neighborhoods were attacked in Washington DC, Chicago, Tulsa, and many other cities and towns across the country. Post-war...
Instructional Video20:51
TED Talks

Marc Pachter: The art of the interview

12th - Higher Ed
Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great...
Instructional Video14:56
Crash Course

Eastern Europe Consolidates: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
While the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at today. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and Russia were all competing at the...
Instructional Video6:21
Crash Course

Introduction: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics

12th - Higher Ed
In which Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function, and we'll get into how it...
Instructional Video10:40
Crash Course

Aggression V. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology

12th - Higher Ed
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. If you are...
Instructional Video4:05
MinutePhysics

Why is Relativity Hard? | Special Relativity Chapter 1

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to my friend Mark Rober for making the spacetime globe, and to Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) for inspiration. This is the first in a series of videos about special relativity. This is definitely not an academic course, but it's...
Instructional Video4:01
Crash Course Kids

Fixing Failure Points

3rd - 8th
Now that we've talked about failure points, let's talk about how to fix them. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to set up models and trails to find and fix failure points.
Instructional Video3:20
SciShow

How Sea Butterflies "Fly" in Water

12th - Higher Ed
Birds fly, and fish swim. We learn this when we are children. But not everything in nature is quite so simple… Meet Limacina helicina, an artic-dwelling sea butterfly that flies through the water. Chapters View all SPY IN THE WILD 2 0:04...
Instructional Video4:33
TED Talks

TED: The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi

12th - Higher Ed
TED Fellow Zahra Al-Mahdi was raised by screens -- "storytelling machines" like TV and the internet that shaped her sense of self and reality. Now a multimedia artist and filmmaker, she challenges common historical narratives and brings...
Instructional Video4:05
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Can you ever travel from one place to another? Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea gave a convincing argument that all motion is impossible - but where's the flaw in his logic? Colm Kelleher illustrates how to resolve Zeno's Dichotomy...
Instructional Video9:17
Crash Course

Television Production: Crash Course Film Production

12th - Higher Ed
In our final episode of Crash Course Film Production, it's time to take a look at television production and how it differs from feature film production. It's subtle but it has a lot to do with how television shows make money for their...
Instructional Video6:02
SciShow

Why We Respond to Disasters with Altruism

12th - Higher Ed
The idea that humans react to disasters by losing control and acting selfishly is all too prevalent, especially in movies and television. But recent studies on altruism may provide evidence that this isn’t always the case, and this...
Instructional Video11:07
Crash Course

The Computer and Turing: Crash Course History of Science

12th - Higher Ed
Computers and computing have changed a lot over the History of Science but ESPECIALLY over the last 100 years. In this episode of Crash Course History of Science, we have a look at that history around World War Two and how that conflict...
Instructional Video11:30
Crash Course

Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science

12th - Higher Ed
Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science #1
Instructional Video1:55
Crash Course

Crash Course History of Science Preview

12th - Higher Ed
For as long as Hank has hosted Crash Course, he's wanted to host a series about the history of science. We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted to explore how we've sought to answer those questions...
Instructional Video12:14
Crash Course

Theories of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology

12th - Higher Ed
This week, we're talking about theories of Myth. We'll look at the different ways mythology has been studied in the last couple of millenia, and talk about the diffeent ways people have interpreted myth, academically.
Instructional Video11:49
Crash Course

How to Train a Brain - Crash Course Psychology

12th - Higher Ed
I'm sure you've heard of Pavlov's Bell (and I'm not talking about the Aimee Mann song), but what was Ivan Pavlov up to, exactly? And how are our brains trained? And what is a "Skinner Box"? All those questions and more are answered in...