TED Talks
TED: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist ... | Maya Penn
Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the planet. She shares her story -- and some animations, and some designs, and some infectious...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How to understand power - Eric Liu
Every day, we move and operate within systems of power that other people have constructed. But we're often uncomfortable talking about power. Why? Eric Liu describes the six sources of power and explains how understanding them is key to...
TED Talks
Tom Shannon: Anti-gravity sculpture
Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and suspension wire. It's science-inspired art at its most heavenly.
Be Smart
Nobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
The controversial history, present and future of the Nobel Prizes.
Crash Course
19th Century Reforms Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about various reform movements in the 19th century United States. From Utopian societies to the Second Great Awakening to the Abolition movement, American society was undergoing great changes in the first...
TED Talks
TED: The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson
In the multitude of metaverses that exist there are infinite possibilities for inclusivity and creativity. Inviting us to craft our own digital universes, Minecraft's game director Agnes Larsson shares how the experience of building and...
TED Talks
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to...
TED Talks
Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken
What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.
SciShow
Why Do You Stick Out Your Tongue When You Concentrate?
Have you ever done something that required a ton of concentration, like threading a needle, and noticed that sometimes your tongue pokes out involuntarily? It turns out this reflex could be a leftover from the evolution of human language!
Crash Course
Is Growth Right For You? Crash Course Entrepreneurship
In business, growth basically means making a company more successful in some way: finding a new revenue stream, revamping the cost structure to minimize expenses and increase profit, or adding new people and knowledge to the team. Our...
3Blue1Brown
Three-dimensional linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra, footnote
How to think of 3x3 matrices as transforming 3d space
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Alex Gendler: Why should you read "Crime and Punishment"?
What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer's mind? And what kind of a society breeds such people? Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the...
TED Talks
TED: The creative power of your intuition | Bozoma Saint John
Great ideas are like electricity -- they snap into sharp focus and sprint from place to place. What's the best way to capture them? Bozoma Saint John, Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, makes a compelling case to move away from an...
TED Talks
TED: The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of...
Crash Course
How to Develop a Business Idea: Crash Course Business - Entrepreneurship
So, where do ideas come from? And what do you do with them once you have them? In this episode of Crash Course Entrepreneurship, Anna helps to answer these questions (and more) as we figure out what we need to do to launch our business.
SciShow
The Next X Prize: Artificial Intelligence!
Hank takes you to the next frontier of innovation: the XPrize for Artificial Intelligence, talking about how true AI can be measured, and what the future might look like.
TED Talks
Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
From the "I have a dream" speech to Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, many great talks have a common structure that helps their message resonate with listeners. In this talk, presentation expert Nancy Duarte shares practical lessons on how to...
SciShow
Space Trash: The Next Big Pickle
Earth's orbit has a bit of a litter problem. Hank outlines a few ways scientists have thought of to help clean things up.
SciShow
It's Time to Visit an Asteroid!
OSIRIS-REx is launching soon and it will become the first American spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid!
3Blue1Brown
Three-dimensional linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 5
How to think of 3x3 matrices as transforming 3d space
TED Talks
TED: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it) | Christoph Niemann
Without realizing it, we're fluent in the language of pictures, says illustrator Christoph Niemann. In a charming talk packed with witty, whimsical drawings, Niemann takes us on a hilarious visual tour that shows how artists tap into our...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? - Chris Anderson
Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life? The potential answers to this question...
Crash Course
Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science
It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that...