Instructional Video22:09
SciShow

Gina McCarthy on Public Health & Climate Change | SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Humans are great at creating, and solving, problems. Hank talks with Gina McCarthy about the biggest public health problem we face today: climate change. Gina McCarthy is the Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the...
Instructional Video17:05
SciShow

Talk Show: Blake de Pastino & Corn Snakes!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank Green interviews Scishow's Chief Editor Blake de Pastino who explains his interest in writing about science, paleontology & anthropology. Special guest Jessi Knudsen Castañeda brings corn snakes for everyone to play with.
Instructional Video11:52
TED Talks

Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the (aptly) short but fascinating history of new...
Instructional Video4:41
TED Talks

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

12th - Higher Ed
Using video mapping and projection, artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo captures and shares his memories and friendships. At TED Fellow Talks, he shows his charming, thoughtful work -- which appears to preserve the people in his life in jars,...
Instructional Video13:34
Crash Course

Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about one of the least family-friendly family dramas in the history of family dramas, Oedipus Rex. Sophocles' most famous play sees it's main character, who seems like he's got it all together, find out...
Instructional Video18:11
TED Talks

Treat design as art - Paola Antonelli

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design --...
Instructional Video9:45
Bozeman Science

Thinking in Structure and Function: Level 4 - Structures at Varying Scale

12th - Higher Ed
in this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on INSERTTITLEHERE. TERMS Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and connected parts Microscopic structures - structures that are so small it...
Instructional Video14:55
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: Crash Course Physics Host Dr. Shini Somara & Sydney the Brush-Tailed Bettong

12th - Higher Ed
Dr. Shini Somara joins us on the Talk Show today to talk Crash Course Physics and her background in fluid dynamics and television. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Sydney, their Brush-tailed Bettong.
Instructional Video26:20
3Blue1Brown

Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?

12th - Higher Ed
How does bitcoin work? What is a "block chain"? What problem is this system trying to solve, and how does it use the tools of cryptography to do so?
Instructional Video13:45
TED Talks

TED: Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory | Nicolas Perony

12th - Higher Ed
Animal behavior isn't complicated, but it is complex. Nicolas Perony studies how individual animals -- be they Scottish Terriers, bats or meerkats -- follow simple rules that, collectively, create larger patterns of behavior. And how...
Instructional Video19:55
TED Talks

TED: Computing a theory of all knowledge | Stephen Wolfram

12th - Higher Ed
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the...
Instructional Video21:58
TED Talks

TED: The future of storytelling | Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers

12th - Higher Ed
We all feel a compelling need to watch stories, to tell stories ... to discuss the things that tell each one of us that we are not alone in the world, says TV titan Shonda Rhimes. A dominant force in television since "Grey's Anatomy" hit...
Instructional Video16:36
TED Talks

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

12th - Higher Ed
Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and...
Instructional Video11:42
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: John Roach on Ecology & Freckles the Leopard Gecko

12th - Higher Ed
Dr. John Roach joins the Talk Show to talk about his ecological studies and then Jessi brings on Freckles the leopard gecko.
Instructional Video9:35
Bozeman Science

Thinking in Causation - Level 6 - Causation and Correlation

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on causation and correlation. TERMS: Relationships - interconnection between parts of a system - Causal - cause-and-effect relationships - Correlational - a mutual...
Instructional Video14:18
TED Talks

Chris Anderson: Technology's long tail

12th - Higher Ed
Chris Anderson, then the editor of Wired, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous.
Instructional Video17:22
TED Talks

TED: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it | James Lyne

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank...
Instructional Video13:32
Crash Course

Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History: Crash Course World History 227

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy...in Japan. The Heian period in Japan lasted from 794CE to 1185CE, and it was an interesting time in Japan. Rather than being...
Instructional Video24:22
SciShow

Deep Sea Microbiome: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks with MacArthur Fellow Dr. Victoria Orphan of CalTech about organisms of the deep sea and the impact it has on our environment.
Instructional Video17:02
TED Talks

Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

12th - Higher Ed
The wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vast treasury buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse...
Instructional Video4:16
SciShow Kids

Name That Poop!

K - 5th
Poop: it's gross... it's funny... it's educational?! Join Jessi and learn all about how you can observe poop in your neighborhood to figure out what kinds of animals live near you! Just don't touch it!
Instructional Video14:34
TED Talks

TED: The line between life and not-life | Martin Hanczyc

12th - Higher Ed
In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.
Instructional Video21:30
TED Talks

TED: The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds

12th - Higher Ed
Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris...
Instructional Video33:32
TED Talks

TED: Why we make bad decisions | Dan Gilbert

12th - Higher Ed
Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.