TED Talks
A stealthy reimagining of urban public space | Elizabeth Diller
Cities are becoming increasingly privatized: commercial real estate dominates the streets, carving up open space that once belonged to the public and selling it as a commodity to the highest bidder. Architect Elizabeth Diller explores...
SciShow
This Hot Jupiter Is Leaking Metal! SciShow News
Astronomers have found a Hot Jupiter - WASP-121b - that is leaking metal, and put together a new 3D map of the Milky Way showing that our galaxy is actually a bit twisted!
TED Talks
TED: 3 ways your company's data can jump-start climate action | Massimo Russo
From helping build smart cities to supporting the sustainable energy sector, the possibilities of big data are endless. But many companies are still wary of sharing data that could expose them to risk and diminish their competitive...
PBS
Inside the Dinosaur Library
We're back in Bozeman, Montana this week talking to Amy Atwater, Collections Manager at the Museum of the Rockies. MOR has among the largest collections of North American dinosaurs in the United States. We talk to Amy about her job and...
TED Talks
P.J. Parmar: How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)
Modern American health care is defined by its high costs, high overhead and inaccessibility -- especially for low-income patients. What if we could redesign the system to serve the poor and still have doctors make money? In an...
Be Smart
Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
Do periodical cicadas "know" how to calculate prime numbers? One of the strangest life cycles in all of biology, explained!
SciShow
P-values Broke Scientific Statistics—Can We Fix Them?
A little over a decade ago, a neuroscientist found "significant activation" in the neural tissue of a dead fish. While it didn't prove the existence of zombie fish, it did point out a huge statistical problem.
SciShow
Weird Places: The Glowing Blue Lava at Kawah Ijen
Maybe you've seen pictures of glowing blue lava flows and dismissed them as Photoshop trickery. Healthy skepticism is good, but there really is a volcano in Indonesia where a unique fluke of chemistry creates an eerie blue glow.
SciShow
Why People Are Sending Themselves Hate Messages
You might be familiar with the concept of self-harm, but it isn’t just physical. As it turns out, people can harm themselves through the anonymity of the internet.
Crash Course
Karl Marx & Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology
Today we’ll continue to explore sociology’s founding theorists with a look at Karl Marx and his idea of historical materialism. We’ll discuss modes of production, their development, and how they fit into Marx’s overall theory of...
SciShow
Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
TED Talks
TED: The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he's working to support the next generation of math teachers and...
Crash Course
Natural Language Processing: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to talk about how computers understand speech and speak themselves. As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been an growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly...
SciShow
How Do Laxatives Work?
Even though we're all probably very experienced poopers, sometimes we need a little help.
Crash Course
Pitching and Pre-Production: Crash Course Film Production
Pitching your movie to people can be hard. A studio, a friend, your mom... each of these entities will have different stressed and give you different results. But, what's important in a pitch? And what happens after the pitch? How do you...
SciShow
This Reaction Could Let Us Live on Mars
There is a chemical reaction discovered a century ago that could be the key to creating everything from fuel to shelter on Mars!
SciShow
Brain Hacks to Make Your Food Taste Better
It’s common knowledge that our sense of taste is tied to our sense of smell, right? But our brains are complex and taste is also tied to our senses of touch, sight, and even hearing.
TED Talks
TED: 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world | Johan Rockstrom
In a talk about how we can build a robust future without wrecking the planet, sustainability expert Johan Rockstrom debuts the Earth3 model -- a new methodology that combines the UN Sustainable Development Goals with the nine planetary...
TED Talks
TED: Why the hospital of the future will be your own home | Niels van Namen
Nobody likes going to the hospital, whether it's because of the logistical challenges of getting there, the astronomical costs of procedures or the alarming risks of complications like antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But what if we could...
TED Talks
TED: Meet the robots for humanity | Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins
Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots for Humanity, help him live his life to the full. He shows off a nimble little...
SciShow
Why You Might Not Want to Be ‘The Smart Kid’
Whether or not you think of yourself as "the smart kid" might affect your grades a lot more than how smart you are.
TED Talks
Charles Moore: Seas of plastic
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris...
SciShow
How Machines the Size of Molecules Could Change the World
Future advances in engineering may come from chemistry. From molecular motors to salt-shaker-drug-deliverers, the future looks small.
TED Talks
Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology | Olivia Arthur
Documentary photographer Olivia Arthur has been exploring a new frontier: the evolution of the blurring line between humanity and technology. In this meditative talk, she shows her work documenting the remarkable ways humans have merged...