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Gina McCarthy on Public Health & Climate Change | SciShow Talk Show
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...
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Talk Show: Blake de Pastino & Corn Snakes!
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.
TED Talks
Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
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...
TED Talks
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art
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,...
Crash Course
Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202
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...
TED Talks
Treat design as art - Paola Antonelli
* 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 --...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Structure and Function: Level 4 - Structures at Varying Scale
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...
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SciShow Talk Show: Crash Course Physics Host Dr. Shini Somara & Sydney the Brush-Tailed Bettong
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.
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Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
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?
TED Talks
TED: Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory | Nicolas Perony
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...
TED Talks
TED: Computing a theory of all knowledge | Stephen Wolfram
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...
TED Talks
TED: The future of storytelling | Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers
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...
TED Talks
Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
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...
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SciShow Talk Show: John Roach on Ecology & Freckles the Leopard Gecko
Dr. John Roach joins the Talk Show to talk about his ecological studies and then Jessi brings on Freckles the leopard gecko.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Causation - Level 6 - Causation and Correlation
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...
TED Talks
Chris Anderson: Technology's long tail
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.
TED Talks
TED: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it | James Lyne
* 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...
Crash Course
Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History: Crash Course World History 227
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...
SciShow
Deep Sea Microbiome: SciShow Talk Show
Hank talks with MacArthur Fellow Dr. Victoria Orphan of CalTech about organisms of the deep sea and the impact it has on our environment.
TED Talks
Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
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...
SciShow Kids
Name That Poop!
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!
TED Talks
TED: The line between life and not-life | Martin Hanczyc
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.
TED Talks
TED: The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds
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...
TED Talks
TED: Why we make bad decisions | Dan Gilbert
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.