Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

Birds Are A Quick Fix For Your Anxiety

12th - Higher Ed
Tweeting may not decrease your stress, but the twitter of some birds just might. And can we make people forget their memories?
Instructional Video7:51
SciShow

4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math

12th - Higher Ed
There are lots of unsolved mysteries in the world of math, and many of them start off with a deceptively simple premise, like: What's the biggest couch you can slide around a 90-degree corner? Hosted by: Michael Aranda
Instructional Video20:06
SciShow

The Incredible World of Trees | SciShow Tree Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us!
Instructional Video31:00
SciShow

Mountain Pine Beetle Update: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow welcomes back Diana Six to talk to us about current news on the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak. Then, Jessi Knudsen Castañeda stops by and brings a familiar friend whose anatomy may help scientists develop better hypodermic needles.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

The Earth's Internet: How Fungi Help Plants Communicate

12th - Higher Ed
Plants have their own interconnected networks that allow them to communicate with each other, sometimes over considerable distances!
Instructional Video6:13
SciShow

How Trees Control the Weather

12th - Higher Ed
Who knew that a rainforest could be literal? Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk (she/her)
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

Why These Weird Carnivores Smell Like Popcorn

12th - Higher Ed
If it smells like delicious buttered popcorn when you are in a middle of the forest, it’s not because there’s a movie theater nearby, but Binturongs, arboreal carnivore, might be.
Instructional Video12:34
TED Talks

TED: The natural building blocks of sustainable architecture | Michael Green

12th - Higher Ed
If we're going to solve the climate crisis, we need to talk about construction. The four main building materials that humans currently use -- concrete, steel, masonry and wood -- have a heavy environmental impact, but what if we had a...
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow Kids

The Layers of the Redwood Forest | Explore the Redwoods | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods!
Instructional Video8:37
Crash Course

Witches and Hags: Crash Course World Mythology #39

12th - Higher Ed
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power...
Instructional Video12:07
TED Talks

TED: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

12th - Higher Ed
If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin...
Instructional Video14:07
TED Talks

TED: An Indigenous perspective on humanity's survival on Earth | Jupta Itoewaki

12th - Higher Ed
Eighty percent of the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories, yet these communities often don't have a say when it comes to protecting the lands they inhabit. Environmental activist Jupta Itoewaki explains why Indigenous...
Instructional Video4:26
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why do beavers build dams? | Glynnis Hood

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nestled in the forests of Canada sits the world's longest beaver dam. This 850-meter-long structure is large enough to be seen in satellite imagery and has dramatically transformed the region, creating a pond containing 70 million liters...
Instructional Video6:38
Bozeman Science

Natural Ecosystem Change

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the Earth's climate will natural change due to interactions between the Sun and Earth, volcanism, and plate tectonics. Species may go extinct leading to adaptive radiation or may move to a...
Instructional Video21:48
SciShow

6 of The Weirdest Places on Earth | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
There are a lot of weird places here on Earth, but here are a few of our favorite strange spots!
Instructional Video5:10
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
While feedback loops are a bummer at band practice, they are essential in nature. What does nature's feedback look like, and how does it build the resilience of our world? Anje-Margriet Neutel describes some common positive and negative...
Instructional Video4:19
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Our planet's diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in...
Instructional Video7:23
TED Talks

TED: The powerful women on the front lines of climate action | Farwiza Farhan

12th - Higher Ed
When it comes to big problems like climate change, we tend to focus on big solutions -- but many of the best ideas come from people on the ground, facing day-to-day conservation battles. Sharing her effort to protect the Leseur ecosystem...
Instructional Video10:46
Crash Course

Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines: Crash Course Theater #16

12th - Higher Ed
This week we're continuing our discussion of William Shakespeare and looking at his comedies and romances. As well as something called problem plays. Some of his plays, they had problems. We'll also put on pants, escape to forest, and...
Instructional Video18:18
TED Talks

TED: A hero of the Congo forest | Corneille Ewango

12th - Higher Ed
Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.
Instructional Video12:50
TED Talks

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

12th - Higher Ed
Picture your favorite place in nature. How would you feel if it disappeared tomorrow? In this love letter to the planet, social worker and environmental activist Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug invites us to confront the deep, difficult emotions...
Instructional Video9:03
TED Talks

TED: A new economic model for protecting tropical forests  | Nat Keohane

12th - Higher Ed
To solve the climate crisis, we need to make tropical forests worth more alive than dead, says environmental economist Nat Keohane. Highlighting the urgent need to stop deforestation and the carbon pollution it brings, he details the...
Instructional Video6:30
TED Talks

TED: The mind-bending art of deep time | Katie Paterson

12th - Higher Ed
Short-sightedness may be the greatest threat to humanity, says conceptual artist Katie Paterson, whose work engages with deep time -- an idea that describes the history of the Earth over a time span of millions of years. In this lively...
Instructional Video2:40
SciShow

Good News, & Drinking Pigs

12th - Higher Ed
The SciShow Science News Bureau brings us some GOOD news this week - Hank tells us about a newly developed vaccine for dengue fever, a newly discovered monkey species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and some happy pigs drinking...