Instructional Video22:56
TED Talks

Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology

12th - Higher Ed
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
Instructional Video10:09
PBS

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

12th - Higher Ed
The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they're not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when...
Instructional Video10:24
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Nature League

Why Are Millipedes Cuter Than Centipedes? - From A to B

6th - 12th Standards
In an invertebrate beauty pageant, why do millipedes always scuttle away with the crown? Part four of a five-part series of Invertebrate videos compares and contrasts the millipede with the centipede in terms of diet, behavior, and body...
Instructional Video6:01
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Nature League

What Are Invertebrates? - Lesson Plan

6th - 12th Standards
Insects, and other invertebrates outnumber vertebrates—segmented-legs down! The first in a five-part series of videos from an Invertebrates series introduces these organisms in all their spineless glory. Each invertebrate phyla takes the...
Instructional Video4:43
The Brain Scoop

The Origin of Mammal Movement: Harvard Adventures, Part I

6th - 12th Standards
It may be difficult for some humans to walk and chew gum at the same time ... but reptiles can't breathe while running at all! Compare the skeletal systems of reptiles and mammals in the first installment of Brain Scoop's fossils and...