Instructional Video10:49
TED Talks

Why gender-based marketing is bad for business | Gaby Barrios

12th - Higher Ed
Companies often target consumers based on gender, but this kind of advertising shortcut doesn't just perpetuate outdated stereotypes -- it's also bad for business, says marketing expert Gaby Barrios. In this clear, actionable talk, she...
Instructional Video21:20
TED Talks

Paul MacCready: A flight on solar wings

12th - Higher Ed
Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career.
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow

Your Sense of Smell Is Better Than You Think

12th - Higher Ed
Human's sense of smell seems to be better than most people think, and an Australian museum teamed up with some rock climbers to try to help save an endangered species.
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Why Scientists Want to Build a Shoebox-Sized Particle Accelerator

12th - Higher Ed
If you want to make particles move really fast, you have to build a particle accelerator that is really big, right? Not anymore!
Instructional Video12:26
TED Talks

Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling

12th - Higher Ed
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes the kind of people she...
Instructional Video4:30
TED Talks

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

12th - Higher Ed
Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.
Instructional Video3:01
SciShow

Why Can't I Get Rid of This Cowlick?

12th - Higher Ed
You or someone you know may have struggled to get a cowlick to just stay down already, but you can take solace in the fact that these inconvenient hair tufts have a lot to teach us about the world around us.
Instructional Video6:16
TED Talks

Markus Fischer: A robot that flies like a bird

12th - Higher Ed
Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh...
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

Why Up Matters to Your Brain

12th - Higher Ed
Gravity may be doing a lot more than just keeping us planted on the Earth. Scientists are learning that it’s also a key player in how we perceive things.
Instructional Video12:17
TED Talks

TED: Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste | Amanda Little

12th - Higher Ed
Our food systems have not been designed to adapt to major disruptions like climate change, says environmental journalist Amanda Little. In this eye-opening talk, she shows how the climate crisis could devastate our food supply -- and...
Instructional Video8:29
Bozeman Science

Electric Field of Parallel Plates

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the electric field between oppositely and equally charged plates is uniform as long as you are far from the edge. The strength of the electric field can be determined by either the charge of the...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

The Strongest Magnetic Field in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Hint: It's not your collection of awesome refrigerator magnets!
Instructional Video3:52
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Solid, liquid, gas and plasma? - Michael Murillo

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Have you ever seen static electricity cause a spark of light? What is that spark? What about lightning, the Northern Lights, or the tail of a comet? All of those things and many others _ in fact, 99.9% of the universe -- are made of...
Instructional Video19:58
3Blue1Brown

Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow, and more

12th - Higher Ed
Intuitions for divergence and curl, and where they come up in physics.
Instructional Video6:22
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The basics of the Higgs boson - Dave Barney and Steve Goldfarb

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2012, scientists at CERN discovered evidence of the Higgs boson. The what? The Higgs boson is one of two types of fundamental particles and is a particular game-changer in the field of particle physics, proving how particles gain...
Instructional Video9:27
TED Talks

TED: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots | Giada Gerboni

12th - Higher Ed
Robots are designed for speed and precision -- but their rigidity has often limited how they're used. In this illuminating talk, biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni shares the latest developments in "soft robotics," an emerging field that...
Instructional Video12:36
PBS

Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction

12th - Higher Ed
Quantum field theory is notoriously complicated, built from mind-bendingly abstract mathematics. But are the underlying rules of reality really so far from human intuition? Or are physicists just showing off? For better or worse, the...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Mind the (Solar System's) Gap

12th - Higher Ed
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
Instructional Video9:07
TED Talks

TED: How augmented reality will change sports ... and build empathy | Chris Kluwe

12th - Higher Ed
Chris Kluwe wants to look into the future of sports and think about how technology will help not just players and coaches, but fans. Here the former NFL punter envisions a future in which augmented reality will help people experience...
Instructional Video5:14
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signals. Underwater, where light is scarce, electrical signals offer ways to communicate, navigate, find, and sometimes stun prey. But...
Instructional Video4:39
TED-Ed

Can you win a game of quantum foosball? | Matteo Fadel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After a long day working on the particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights go out for a second, and when they come back, there before you gleams a foosball table. Always game, you insert your...
Instructional Video1:30
MinutePhysics

Theory of Everything (intro)

12th - Higher Ed
A brief intro to the current theory of (almost) everything - the Standard Model of particle physics. It's like cake, only universal.
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow Kids

Biologists! Scientists Who Love Life!

K - 5th
Who wants to be a biologist? Learn all about scientists who study life -- like where they do their jobs, the questions they ask, and the tools they use!
Instructional Video2:58
SciShow

Earth Has Another Magnetic Field

12th - Higher Ed
You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have measured ANOTHER magnetic field coming from Earth, and its signals might hold the key to searching for...