Instructional Video8:11
TED Talks

Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill

12th - Higher Ed
What's a proven way to lower your energy costs? Would you believe: learning what your neighbor pays. Alex Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower bills to prove it.
Instructional Video13:07
TED Talks

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

12th - Higher Ed
What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its "loneliness, longevity, grim thrill" -- that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours...
Instructional Video9:18
TED Talks

TED: Free yourself from your filter bubbles | Joan Blades and John Gable

12th - Higher Ed
Joan Blades and John Gable want you to make friends with people who vote differently than you do. A pair of political opposites, the two longtime pals know the value of engaging in honest conversations with people you don't immediately...
Instructional Video7:20
TED Talks

TED: What can we learn from shortcuts? | Tom Hulme

12th - Higher Ed
How do you build a product people really want? Allow consumers to be a part of the process. "empathy for what your customers want is probably the biggest leading indicator of business success," says designer Tom Hulme. In this short...
Instructional Video10:54
TED Talks

TED: We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For Jon Bowers, who runs a training facility for professional delivery drivers, the stakes are high -- 100 people in the uS die every day in...
Instructional Video11:53
TED Talks

Heidi Grant: How to ask for help -- and get a "yes"

12th - Higher Ed
Asking for help is tough. But to get through life, you have to do it all the time. So how do you get comfortable asking? In this actionable talk, social psychologist Heidi Grant shares four simple rules for asking for help and getting it...
Instructional Video3:57
TED Talks

TED: What happens when you lose everything | David Hoffman

12th - Higher Ed
Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped clean in an instant -- and looks...
Instructional Video8:13
SciShow

9 Animals That Will Outlive Us

12th - Higher Ed
Lack of food, no sunlight and nuclear disaster might mean the end of the world for humans, but these 9 animals just might make it.
Instructional Video4:44
Be Smart

The Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves

12th - Higher Ed
It's okay to be small?
Instructional Video11:45
TED Talks

TED: Nuclear power is our best hope to ditch fossil fuels | Isabelle Boemeke

12th - Higher Ed
Nuclear power is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy -- yet to most people, it might not feel that way. Why is that? Isabelle Boemeke, the world's first nuclear energy influencer and creator of the social media persona Isodope,...
Instructional Video12:02
TED Talks

Robert Thurman: We can be Buddhas

12th - Higher Ed
In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature.
Instructional Video15:08
TED Talks

Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career

12th - Higher Ed
In this funny and blunt talk, Larry Smith pulls no punches when he calls out the absurd excuses people invent when they fail to pursue their passions.
Instructional Video17:20
TED Talks

Tom Thum and Matthew Broadhurst: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?

12th - Higher Ed
Viral beatboxer Tom Thum has an orchestra in his mouth, but how does he make all those sounds? Get an up-close-and-personal look as laryngeal surgeon Matthew Broadhurst sticks a camera down Thum's throat while he creates a mind-boggling...
Instructional Video17:48
TED Talks

TED: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all | Ken Jennings

12th - Higher Ed
Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the US quiz show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against IBM's supercomputer Watson -- and lost. With...
Instructional Video18:16
TED Talks

TED: Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen

12th - Higher Ed
Rodney Mullen is the godfather of street skating, and in this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skateboarding community. He shows how the unique environments skaters play in drive the creation of new tricks -- fostering...
Instructional Video13:36
TED Talks

TED: The debut of the British Paraorchestra | Charles Hazlewood + British Paraorchestra

12th - Higher Ed
There are millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world, and Charles Hazlewood is determined to give them a platform. Watch the debut performance of the British Paraorchestra.
Instructional Video11:06
SciShow

Pumas and Slither the Gopher Snake: SciShow Talk Show #12

12th - Higher Ed
Hank and Katherine talk about the wild cat known variously as a puma, mountain lion, cougar, panther and catamount and then Jessi from Animal Wonders brings a special animal guest to visit.
Instructional Video8:25
Bozeman Science

Scientific Phenomenon and Sensemaking

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how scientific phenomenon and sensemaking can be used in the science classroom to engage students and drive inquiry.
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow Kids

How Do Snakes Smell With Their Tongues? | Amazing Animal Senses! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mister Brown and Squeaks learn all about why snakes stick out their tongues! Did you know that their tongues actually help snakes smell?? First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way...
Instructional Video11:15
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Reid Reimers

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda hosts SciShow's new Quiz Show! Hank and Reid have a battle of wits to win prizes for two lucky Subbable Subscribers! Chapters View all MICHAEL ARANDA 0:17 REID REIMERS 0:28 KEITH CHEIM 1:34 SPERM WHALE 4:26 COLLOID 5:30 A...
Instructional Video28:37
SciShow

Why People Do So Many Weird Things on the Internet | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
The internet has given us access to a wealth of information about humanity, including about those big weird brains that make us who we are.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
Instructional Video17:40
TED Talks

James Logan: How we're using dogs to sniff out malaria

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could diagnose some of the world's deadliest diseases by the smells our bodies give off? In a fascinating talk and live demo, biologist James Logan introduces Freya, a malaria-sniffing dog, to show how we can harness the...
Instructional Video10:13
TED Talks

TED: A new weapon in the fight against superbugs | David Brenner

12th - Higher Ed
Since the widespread use of antibiotics began in the 1940s, we've tried to develop new drugs faster than bacteria can evolve -- but this strategy isn't working. Drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs killed nearly 700,000 people last...