TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do doctors determine what stage of cancer you have? | Hyunsoo Joshua No and Trudy Wu
Each year, approximately 20 million people receive a cancer diagnosis. At that time, a patient usually learns their cancer’s stage, which is typically a number ranging from one to four. While staging is designed, in part, to help...
PBS
Loop Quantum Gravity Explained
The holy grail of physics is to connect our understanding of the tiny scales of atoms and subatomic particles with that of the vast scales of planets, galaxies, and the entire universe. To connect quantum physics with Einstein’s general...
MinutePhysics
Most Collisions Are Secretly in One Dimension
This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D - and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation of momentum, plus a secret direction, results in a completely predetermined behavior for most...
SciShow
Why NASA Uses Satellites and Airplanes to Study Frogs
Why NASA Uses Satellites and Airplanes to Study Frogs
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Newton's three-body problem explained | Fabio Pacucci
In 2009, researchers ran a simple experiment. They took everything we know about our solar system and calculated where every planet would be up to 5 billion years in the future. They ran over 2,000 simulations, and the astonishing...
Crash Course Kids
Bowled Over
So, variables. There are lots of them when trying to test an idea. The trick is to isolate one variable at a time to get reliable results every time. But, how do we do that? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to...
Crash Course Kids
Try Trials
We've talked about variables and solving problems. But how do we keep working on a problem if the first solution doesn't fix it? Trials! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to use Trials to figure out what the...
3Blue1Brown
Inverse matrices, column space and null space: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 7 of 15
How do you think about the column space and null space of a matrix visually? How do you think about the inverse of a matrix?
Crash Course
Sociology Research Methods: Crash Course Sociology
Today we’re talking about how we actually DO sociology. Nicole explains the research method: form a question and a hypothesis, collect data, and analyze that data to contribute to our theories about society.
Crash Course Kids
Engineering Games
So how can a game teach us about engineering? Pretty easily! When you're trying to solve a game, or a puzzle, or whatever, you will have a bunch of variables. The trick is knowing how to change one variable at a time to see what changes....
3Blue1Brown
Inverse matrices, column space and null space | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 6
How do you think about the column space and null space of a matrix visually? How do you think about the inverse of a matrix?
TED Talks
Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code
Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just use new tech toys but also...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5 | Alex Rosenthal
This is episode 5 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and...
TED Talks
Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4 | Alex Rosenthal
This is episode 4 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari
Have you ever looked at your camera and wondered what all of those buttons actually do? For manual photography, the aperture, shutter speed and ISO sensitivity can all be manipulated to get just the right amount of light. Carolina...
SciShow
Will We Ever Find Intelligent Alien Life?
What can an equation tell us about whether or not we're alone in the universe?
SciShow
Why NASA Uses Satellites and Airplanes to Study Frogs
Frogs falling victim in the past to one of the biggest destroyers of biodiversity didn’t have much hope, that is, until humans thought to get a bird’s eye view.
Amoeba Sisters
Nature of Science
Explore the nature of science with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses why there is not just one universal scientific method as well as the importance of credible sources when researching. Vocab in experimental design including...
Crash Course Kids
A Case of 'What-Ifs'
Variables: What are they? In the case of engineering, variables are a condition or value that can change. Sometimes we control a variable, sometimes we don't. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats to us about how variables...
Crash Course
Can We Predict An Outbreak's Future? - Modeling: Crash Course Outbreak Science
When outbreaks happen, we need to be able to predict the course they’ll take in the future, but of course we can’t run experiments on real people to figure that out. Thankfully we can simulate outbreaks and use models to find out how...
Crash Course Kids
The Robot Challenge
Robots! They're everywhere. We use them for all kinds of things that we can't, or don't want to do. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shares a problem with us that can probably be solved by building an awesome robot. So let's...
Crash Course Kids
Designing a Trial
It's time to design some trials. Sometimes engineers need to figure out how to test ideas. In order to do that, we need to design trials to find failure points and see how things are going to work in the real world (with gravity, wind,...