It's never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies -- so when Brenda Romero's daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living -- she designed a game. She describes the surprising...

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge craze this summer? Meet the mom who started it all. When Nancy Frates's son Pete hurt his wrist in a baseball game, he got an unexpected diagnosis: it wasn’t a broken bone, it was ALS, and there is no...

Hank brings the answer into focus.

How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep...

In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples:...

Jessi and Squeaks love science mysteries, and today they've teamed up with their friend, Dino, to try and solve one of the biggest mysteries of all: what happened to the dinosaurs?

Jessi has a special guest today who is an expert on the night sky! Join Jessi and Sam the Bat to learn all about constellations, and to test your star knowledge by making flash cards!

12,000 years ago, the earth was very different, and so were some of the animals living on it! Here are 5 giants creatures you might have seen back then.

Some people think that being a fighter pilot and a parent means that you will have a household full of daughters - but does the data back that up?

This video is the first of a five part series on scientific inquiry. Supporting material can be found below.

We have so many different emotions that pop up from time to time, so Squeaks and Jessi are playing a guessing game while they watch videos that remind them why we have certain emotions!

Pearl Arredondo grew up in East Los Angeles, the daughter of a high-ranking gang member who was in and out of jail. Many teachers wrote her off as having a problem with authority. Now a teacher herself, she's creating a different kind of...

We all go through challenges -- some you can see, most you can't, says Michele L. Sullivan. In a talk about perspective, Sullivan shares stories full of wit and wisdom and reminds us that we're all part of each other's support systems....

Adults tend to think of kids as "future citizens" -- their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look...

To honor and celebrate young lives cut short, Kathy Hull founded the first freestanding pediatric palliative care facility in the United States, the George Mark Children's House. Its mission: to give terminally ill children and their...

Here's a stat worth knowing: In the UK, 63% of men who finish short-term prison sentences are back inside within a year for another crime. Helping them stay outside involves job training, classes, therapy. And it would pay off handsomely...

We're celebrating a month of reading fun! Read and sing-a-long about dolphins with Squeaks and his favorite band, The Whizpops!

Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do...

Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: "Food is one issue that...

Way more kids have fuzzy vision these days because we spend less time in outdoor light, which makes our eyeballs longer.

We’re having a birthday party for one of the world’s most famous scientists, Charles Darwin!!!

Usually when it's snowing outside, it's really calm, pretty, and fun to play in! But there are certain types of big snowstorms, called blizzards, that can get really windy, wild, and even dangerous!

It may be antiquated now, but the old pearl of wisdom: “Don’t sit too close to the TV” was good advice in the 1960s

Is your school or workplace divided between the "creatives" versus the practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own...