SciShow
Why Do I Feel Lightheaded When I Stand Up?
Have you ever stood up and felt a bit dizzy and lightheaded? Learn why it happens in this SciShow Quick Question!
TED Talks
TED: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas...
SciShow
Why It's So Hard to Admit You're Wrong | Cognitive Dissonance
Sometimes our behavior and our beliefs just… don’t match. And a lot of times this mismatch can lead to stress. What’s happening in our brains when we’re inconsistent? Can we learn anything from this discomfort?
SciShow
Forget Angry: Here’s How Hunger Makes You Impulsive
You may feel a bit grumpy when you're hungry, but hunger can affect us in more powerful ways than we realize.
SciShow
The Research-Backed Secrets to Getting Inspired
Inspiration can be a hard thing to pin down, but scientists actually have found evidence-backed ways to encourage it to happen!
SciShow
Why Do My Ears Pop?
We’ve all experienced it, that annoying pressure in our head when we’re flying in a plane or a storm front comes in, then it pops! Find out how this popping happens and things to avoid so you don’t harm your ears.
TED Talks
TED: Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers
After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their...
TED Talks
TED: How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them | erin Marie Saltman
Terrorists and extremists aren't all naturally violent sociopaths -- they're deliberately recruited and radicalized in a process that doesn't fit into a neat pattern. erin Marie Saltman discusses the push and pull factors that cause...
SciShow
Why You Really Love That Wobbly Table
Multiple studies have shown that people assign a higher value to something they "made" themselves, even if they only picked out the color or tightened a few screws. Why does that happen? Psychologists have a few theories.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How does your body know you're full? - Hilary Coller
Hunger claws at your belly. It tugs at your intestines, which begin to writhe, aching to be fed. Being hungry generates a powerful and often unpleasant physical sensation that's almost impossible to ignore. After you've reacted by...
SciShow
Why Can Severe Pain Make You Vomit?
Nausea and vomiting are common side effects of severe pain, but why do our bodies do this!?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is love? - Brad Troeger
Is love a signal winding through your neural pathways? A cliche? A cult? Love is easy to compare but difficult to define, maybe because we're fundamentally biased; we try to define love while falling in or out of it. And love feels...
SciShow
The Secret World of Temper Tantrums
Temper tantrums are more complex than just a toddler's unbridled rage. And recent research into what toddlers are thinking and feeling can help us better support kids’ healthy development!
SciShow
Why We Respond to Disasters with Altruism
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...
TED Talks
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage"...
MinuteEarth
The Basics Of Digital Illustration
Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics.
TED Talks
TED: How we talk about sexual assault online | Ione Wells
We need a more considered approach to using social media for social justice, says writer and activist Ione Wells. After she was the victim of an assault in London, Wells published a letter to her attacker in a student newspaper that went...
TED Talks
TED: What soccer can teach us about freedom | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together, says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his performances and an engagement initiative called "Moving and Passing," Joseph combines...
TED Talks
The myth of bringing your full, authentic self to work | Jodi-Ann Burey
Calls for authenticity at work ask for passionate people with diverse, fresh perspectives who challenge old ways of thinking. But too often workplace culture fails to support the authenticity of professionals of color and other...
TED Talks
TED: The ethical dilemma of designer babies | Paul Knoepfler
Creating genetically modified people is no longer a science fiction fantasy; it's a likely future scenario. Biologist Paul Knoepfler estimates that within fifteen years, scientists could use the gene editing technology CRISPR to make...
SciShow
What Makes a Feeling an Emotion?
We all have emotions, but what exactly are they and where do they come from?
SciShow
Does Giving Thanks Really Make Us Feel Good?
Researchers have found that the expression of gratitude gives positive effects on our both mental and physical health.
SciShow Kids
How to Feel Your Heart Beat
Get to know your body’s most important muscle -- your heart -- and learn how to take your own pulse!
SciShow Kids
The Power of Sunlight! Science Project for Kids
Jessi and Squeaks use the power of the sun to conduct a cool science experiment!