TED Talks
Philip Evans: How data will transform business
What does the future of business look like? In an informative talk, Philip Evans gives a quick primer on two long-standing theories in strategy -- and explains why he thinks they are essentially invalid.
TED Talks
Sherwin Nuland: The extraordinary power of ordinary people
Sherwin Nuland, a surgeon and a writer, meditates on the idea of hope -- the desire to become our better selves and make a better world. It's a thoughtful 12 minutes that will help you focus on the road ahead.
PBS
What Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
If you needed to tell someone what numbers are and how they work, without using the notion of number in your answer, could you do it?
SciShow
The Future of Space Telescopes: Umbrellas & Glitter!
After Hubble and Webb, what's the future of space telescopes? Two ideas in planning stages right now involve the space-age versions of umbrellas and glitter.
MinutePhysics
Why Some Days Aren’t 24 Hours
Check out the "What is a Day?" interactive video at https://labs.minutelabs.io/what-is-a-day/ It's super cool!! (and made by Jasper Palfree & the MinuteEarth/MinutePhysics team) This video is about the length of a solar day vs a stellar...
SciShow
Building a Dyson Sphere
What if an advanced civilization ran out of room to grow on their home planet? Their best bet might be to build settlements in space, so they could capture more of their star's energy.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky
The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it's completely booked but one person wants to check in? What...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand...
3Blue1Brown
Triangle of Power
Logarithms are confusing, but perhaps some alternate notation could make them more intuitive.
TED Talks
TED: The passing of time, caught in a single photo | Stephen Wilkes
Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-dimensional still photograph. Journey with him to iconic locations like the...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and authorities have often agreed. From outlawed religious tracts and revolutionary manifestos to censored and burned books, we know the potential power of words to overturn the social order....
TED Talks
TED: What happens when an NGO admits failure | David Damberger
International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger analyzes his own engineering failure in India -- and calls for his friends in the development sector to publicly admit, scrutinize and learn from their...
SciShow
The Untold Story of the First Vaccine
Vaccines save millions of lives each year, so we owe a lot to the people that pioneered that medical breakthrough. But the concept of a vaccine had already existed for a long time before it was “discovered,” and the real story is way...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives?...
SciShow
How to Make the World's Simplest Motor: SciShow Experiments
Hank builds a simple electric motor just powerful enough to make a small screw spin, but also strong enough to blow your mind.
Crash Course
Theories of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology
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.
Crash Course
PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Crash Course Literature 213
In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was published, some of the crude language in the book caused controversy. We quote one mildly controversial line in...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The power of a great introduction - Carolyn Mohr
Never underestimate the power of an intriguing start. When analyzing the literary greats like Charles Dickens and Kurt Vonnegut, be inspired by their craft and learn how to write a tantalizing introduction and strong thesis for your...
Curated Video
Japan Values
New ReviewMany of the values and basic assumptions the Japanese make about life have their origins in Buddhism and Shintoism. The primacy of the group or the collective good and the value placed on maintaining harmony are particularly strong and...
Curated Video
Git and GitHub Masterclass - Fast track your Journey to Git! - Understanding Signed Commits
New ReviewThis video explains understanding signed commits.
Curated Video
Express Framework Mastery: From Beginner to Advanced with Node.js - Course Overview
New ReviewThis video helps in providing an overview of what the course entails and what students can expect to learn.
Curated Video
Understanding Copyright, Public Domain, and Fair Use for Creators
New ReviewThis educational video provides a clear and concise overview of the key concepts of copyright, public domain, and fair use, and how they impact creators in the United States. Through easy-to-understand language, viewers learn about the...
The Daily Conversation
The Future of Airplanes
New ReviewAirplanes will change immensely in the next 50 years as the industry limits its CO2e emissions. These are some of the innovations that are in-progress.
Curated Video
Coefficient
New ReviewA video entitled "Coefficient" that covers the concepts involved in solving equations where the variable has a coefficient.