Instructional Video9:35
TED Talks

TED: A dance to honor Mother earth | Jon Boogz and Lil Buck

12th - Higher Ed
Movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck debut "Honor thy mother," a delicate, powerful performance of spoken word, violin and dance that draws on the tormented relationship between nature and humanity.
Instructional Video3:35
SciShow

Carl Sagan

12th - Higher Ed
Hank pays tribute to Carl Sagan, noting his accomplishment as an astronomer and his contributions to culture -- both pop and otherwise -- as one of the great popularizers of science. Happy Carl Sagan Day!
Instructional Video6:03
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire | Dustin Tahmahkera

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Late one night in 1871, a group of riders descended on a sleeping army camp, stole about 70 horses, and disappeared. Led by a young chief named Quanah Parker, the raid was the latest in a long series of altercations along the Texas...
Instructional Video9:26
TED Talks

TED: Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement | Lindsey Schneider

12th - Higher Ed
Land thrives in Indigenous hands, and there are real, tangible ways you can help return what was stolen by colonizers from tribes across North America. Indigenous scholar Lindsey Schneider addresses the ill-gotten legacy of settler...
Instructional Video5:43
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The dark history of bananas | John Soluri

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In December 1910, the exiled former leader Manuel Bonilla boarded a borrowed yacht and set sail for Honduras in hopes of reclaiming power by whatever means necessary. Bonilla had a powerful backer: the notorious organization known...
Instructional Video4:57
Crash Course Kids

Big Changes in the Big Apple

3rd - 8th
Did you know that all living things change their environments? It's true. Beavers, deer, worms, and humans all change their environments. It just so happens that humans change our environments in big, obvious ways. In this episode,...
Instructional Video21:20
TED Talks

Paul MacCready: A flight on solar wings

12th - Higher Ed
Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career.
Instructional Video3:32
TED Talks

Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil

12th - Higher Ed
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.
Instructional Video10:21
SciShow

Emily and Hank Meet a Blue-Tongued Skink: SciShow Talk Show Episode 5

12th - Higher Ed
Emily Graslie of the Brain Scoop is back again with some more skulls to stump Hank, and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings in Blueberry the blue-tongued skink.
Instructional Video8:36
SciShow

A Brief History of Life on Earth: The Full Series

12th - Higher Ed
From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, check out this SciShow mini-series for a primer about life on earth.
Instructional Video5:13
SciShow

This New Star Is a Ticking Time Bomb - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We might be sitting next to the largest bomb in the galaxy and NASA's InSight lander will touch down on Mars this Monday!
Instructional Video16:26
TED Talks

Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

12th - Higher Ed
Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public's growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.
Instructional Video16:31
TED Talks

Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?

12th - Higher Ed
Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.
Instructional Video2:35
SciShow

Sniffing Out a Seabird in the Desert

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have been searching for the hard-to-find nests of Storm Petrels in order to protect them, but first, they'll have to follow their nose.
Instructional Video9:20
SciShow

Mass Extinctions

12th - Higher Ed
Hank takes us on a trip through time to revisit the 5 major mass extinction events that have impacted species over the Earth's history, and leaves us with some thoughts about what could possibly be the sixth event - the one caused by...
Instructional Video0:59
SciShow

Sucking CO₂ from the Atmosphere #shorts #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks

12th - Higher Ed
Sucking CO₂ from the Atmosphere #shorts #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks
Instructional Video1:51
MinuteEarth

Which Fish Did We Evolve From?

12th - Higher Ed
Today's oceans are full of fish with fins that couldn't evolve into limbs like ours. So, who are our ancestors and where did they go?
Instructional Video2:54
SciShow

The Plant That Grows Perches for Birds

12th - Higher Ed
The rat's tail plant, or Babiana ringens earns its name for the distinct stem that grows above its flowers. But what's the purpose of this odd looking appendage? Chapters View all 0:05 0:54 1:13 2:11
Instructional Video5:28
TED-Ed

Can you solve the fantasy election riddle? | Dennis E. Shasha

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After much debate, the realm has decided dragon jousting may not be the best way to choose its leaders, and has begun transitioning to democracy. Your company was hired to survey the citizens of the land and predict which candidate will...
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

New Space-Flight Awesomeness!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space celebrates the Falcon 9 vertical landing and looks forward to new missions in space! Also-- are globular clusters a good place to look for extraterrestrial life? Find out in this episode of SciShow Space News!
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Landing on Europa!

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has proposed a mission that would land on Europa to search for signs of life & we've learned something sad about one of our neighbors, Proxima b.
Instructional Video8:29
SciShow

5 Strange Cases of Animal Rain

12th - Higher Ed
You might want a really sturdy umbrella to dig into this video, because we’re discussing 5 animals that have a tendency to rain down from the sky and the reasons we think this might be happening!
Instructional Video4:26
TED-Ed

How much land does it take to power the world? | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
No matter how we make electricity, it takes up space. Coal requires mines, and plants to convert it into electricity. Nuclear power takes uranium mines, facilities to refine it, a reactor, and a place to store the spent fuel safely....
Instructional Video10:54
Crash Course

The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people the encountered in the New World. In short, these relations were poor. As soon as they arrived, the English were in conflict with...