Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

Why Can’t Scientists Predict the Kilauea Eruption?

12th - Higher Ed
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano suddenly erupted last week. It's happened before, so why are eruptions so hard for scientists to predict?
Instructional Video6:28
Amoeba Sisters

Ecological Relationships

12th - Higher Ed
Explore several ecological relationships with The Amoeba Sisters! Ecological relationships discussed include predation, competition, and symbiotic relationships (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism). Table of Contents: Intro 00:00...
Instructional Video6:18
Amoeba Sisters

Dichotomous Keys: Identification Achievement Unlocked

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters in discovering how to use a dichotomous key to identify organisms. This video also touches on the importance of scientific names. Table of Contents: Intro 00:00 What is a Dichotomous Key? 0:29 Scientific Names vs....
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Get Ready for a New Star in the Night Sky! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers are predicting that two stars are likely to merge and explode, and it may happen soon... on a cosmic timescale. Plus, scientists break up a meteorite and find the oldest solid matter ever discovered on earth.
Instructional Video13:53
TED Talks

TED: Is civility a sham? | Teresa Bejan

12th - Higher Ed
What exactly is civility, and what does it require? In a talk packed with historical insights, political theorist Teresa Bejan explains how civility has been used as both the foundation of tolerant societies and as a way for political...
Instructional Video1:51
SciShow

Why Are Belly Flops So Painful

12th - Higher Ed
You botched your forward double somersault and biffed it hard on the water. Why does it have to hurt so bad?
Instructional Video11:10
TED Talks

TED: A call to men | Tony Porter

12th - Higher Ed
At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse...
Instructional Video15:58
TED Talks

TED: The radical act of choosing common ground | Nisha Anand

12th - Higher Ed
To achieve lasting change sometimes requires the hard, even radical, choice of partnering with people you'd least expect. Justice reform advocate Nisha Anand shares her story of working with her ideological opposite to make history and...
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

These Insects are Smaller than a Single Cell...How?!

12th - Higher Ed
Fairies do exist! Well, sort of...meet the fairyfly, the smallest insect on Earth that specializes in the magic of miniaturization!
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

What Fruit Flies Taught Us About Human Biology

12th - Higher Ed
For creatures that look nothing like us, fruit flies have been able to teach us a lot about human biology as we’ve studied them over the past century.
Instructional Video3:30
SciShow

New Views of a Comet, and 5 Ancient Planets Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News serves up the latest pictures from Comet 67-P, that media darling, and the discovery of what may be the oldest, rocky Earth-like worlds yet found.
Instructional Video6:00
TED Talks

Max Little: A test for Parkinson's with a phone call

12th - Higher Ed
Parkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a simple, cheap tool that in...
Instructional Video9:49
TED Talks

Annette Heuser: The 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies

12th - Higher Ed
The way we rate national economies is all wrong, says rating agency reformer Annette Heuser. With mysterious and obscure methods, three private US-based credit rating agencies wield immense power over national economies across the globe,...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Has Stephen Hawking Solved a Black Hole Paradox?

12th - Higher Ed
Stephen Hawking recently announced that he'd come up with an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. But it'll probably be a while before we know exactly what it is.
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

Meet the Machine That Barfs

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News shares the latest insights into two powerful natural forces: El Nino and barfing.
Instructional Video6:30
SciShow

Planets Could Form Around Black Holes! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in space. Scientists have discovered a black hole that could possibly everything we know about black holes, and also, evidence that planets, yes planets, could form around super massive black holes.
Instructional Video5:39
SciShow

Are There Planets More Habitable Than Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth probably isn’t the best place in the universe. It turns out there might be even better places to live that are even more suitable for life: superhabitable planets.
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

What We Learned from the Kepler Space Telescope - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
October was bittersweet for space scientists as we said goodbye to both the Kepler Space Telescope and Dawn mission.
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

How The One-Shot COVID Vaccine Changes Things

12th - Higher Ed
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is now the third approved for emergency use authorization in the United States, and it's a little different from its predecessors.
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

Why People are Always Fighting Over the Thermostat

12th - Higher Ed
Negotiating thermostat settings can be really frustrating, but your officemate isn't trying to freeze you out on purpose. Stefan explains the science behind why people experience temperatures differently. Fun fact: Stefan wears a jacket...
Instructional Video6:31
Amoeba Sisters

Properties of Water

12th - Higher Ed
Explore some properties of water with the Amoeba Sisters! It's all about those hydrogen bonds.
Instructional Video13:40
TED Talks

TED: How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities | Mindy Scheier

12th - Higher Ed
Do you have a favorite T-shirt or pair of jeans that transforms you and makes you feel confident -- makes you feel like you? That's because what you wear can affect your mood, your health and your self-esteem, says fashion designer Mindy...
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video15:49
TED Talks

Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process

12th - Higher Ed
When asked to build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago, Alejandro Aravena looked to an unusual inspiration: the wisdom of favelas and slums. Rather than building a large building with small units, he built flexible...