TED Talks
TED: Cloudy with a chance of joy | Gavin Pretor-Pinney
You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find creative inspiration. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. As he shares charming photos of nature's finest aerial architecture, Pretor-Pinney...
SciShow
What Causes Brain Freeze?
That terrible pain the befalls us when enjoying an icy treat! How does that happen? Is there a cure? Let Hank explain.
SciShow
You're Losing Bones Right Now
You would think that almost everyone has the same exact number of bones in their body, but that number is different, and changing, in everyone!
PBS
FAQs From Our First Year
Over the first season of PBS Eons, we've explored the history of Earth from the very origins of life right up to the Cenozoic Era that we're in now. To celebrate our first anniversary together, we'd like to answer some of your most...
MinuteEarth
Bitcoin mining is a lot like reindeer mating 🪙💖🦌
Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies, like NFTs, work a lot like reindeer mating.
SciShow
Stevie Boebi and Huckleberry the Beaver: SciShow Talk Show
Hank is joined this week by Stevie Boebi, lesbian sex expert and host of her own YouTube channel, as well as Jessi and Huckleberry from Animal Wonders!
SciShow
Glowing Rats and Extreme Genetic Engineering
Hank discusses some of the recent developments in synthetic biology, and why some advocacy groups are calling for a moratorium on those developments.
TED Talks
Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style? In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist -- starting from age 8 -- and his idiosyncratic way of thinking...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: If superpowers were real: Super strength - Joy Lin
What if super strength wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be super strong? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us...
TED Talks
TED: The dance of the dung beetle | Marcus Byrne
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance.
SciShow
Snakes Use Their Spongy Mouths to Drink
Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, so how do they drink? Turns out, some snakes have sponge-mouths that literally soak up water!
SciShow Kids
Why Do I Feel Sick in the Car?
Road trips can be fun, but have you ever gotten sick from riding in a car? That's called motion sickness, and it turns out that it's a really common problem!
TED Talks
TED: Why helmets don't prevent concussions -- and what might | David Camarillo
What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David Camarillo shows what really happens during a concussion -- and why standard sports...
SciShow
Learn To Taxidermy | SciShow Talk Show
Olivia Gordon shows Hank how to taxidermy a squirrel and Zoe the Red Lored Amazon parrot shows off with the help of Jessi from Animal Wonders.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Could one vaccine protect against everything? | TED-Ed
There's a vaccine being developed now that would protect you against every strain of the flu— even ones that don't exist yet. But influenza is constantly mutating, so is a universal vaccine even possible? And how do you design a vaccine...
TED Talks
Nizar Ibrahim: How we unearthed the Spinosaurus
A 50-foot-long carnivore who hunted its prey in rivers 97 million years ago, the Spinosaurus is a "dragon from deep time." Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim and his crew found new fossils, hidden in cliffs of the Moroccan Sahara desert, that...
TED Talks
TED: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell
Cameron Russell admits she won "a genetic lottery": she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely...
SciShow
Why These 7 Fish Are So U.G.L.Y.
Some fish will never win any beauty pageants, but they still deserve our admiration, respect, and love, especially since their “ugly” traits are actually incredible examples of evolutionary innovation.
PBS
How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
Do two people on the planet have the exact same number of body hairs? How about more than two? There's a simple yet powerful mathematical principle that can help you find out the answer. Kelsey Houston-Edwards breaks down the Pigeonhole...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? | Elizabeth Cox
It's 1950. Anti-communist sentiment in the United States is at an all-time high. Senator Joseph McCarthy claims he has a list of communists who are influencing government policy. He makes his first accusation without providing any...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read "Moby Dick"? | Sascha Morrell
A mountain separating two lakes. A room papered floor to ceiling with bridal satins. The lid of an immense snuffbox. These seemingly unrelated images take us on a tour of a sperm whale's head in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Though the...
TED Talks
Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body - Tim Verstynen & Bradley Voytek
Zombies eat brains. They are also, like all of us, driven by brain functions. What is happening in their brains to make them act as they do? In this intriguing dialogue, Tim Verstynen & Bradley Voytek apply the various human medical...
MinuteEarth
Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
Null results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose results fail to support their hypotheses.