PBS
The True Story Behind One Of The Most Damaging Spies In American History
She’s been called one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history. Ana Montes passed secrets and information to the Cuban government for almost 17 years until her arrest just days after the 9/11 attacks. After nearly two decades behind...
PBS
Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science
In a New York City classroom, teachers use rap songs to teach complex science. Playlists are used as a metaphor to convey natural selection, and students compose raps songs to reinforce concepts. Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness...
PBS
Despite Being First In Line, Many Health Care Workers Are Delaying Vaccinations
COVID-19 vaccines were developed with record-breaking speed, and by late
last year they were rolled out to frontline health care workers across the
country. But despite being first in line many of those workers have decided
to delay...
PBS
Outgoing Washington Post Editor Marty Baron Reflects On The State Of American Journalism
This week marks a turning point at one of the nation's premier newspapers.
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron is stepping down on Sunday
after eight years at the Post and more than four decades in the news
business. His...
PBS
Student Reporting Lab: Media Literacy
In an era marked by cries of “fake news,” teaching media literacy skills to
young consumers is more important than ever. How do schools teach students
consuming and sharing news responsibly? PBS Newshour’s Student Reporting
Labs talks...
Bozeman Science
LS1A - Structure and Function
How do the structures of organisms enable life's functions? Benchmarks for grades 2, 5, 8 and 12 are included.
Crash Course
What Can You Learn from Your Competition? Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship
We’re used to competitions with clear winners and losers: baseball games, math olympiads, pie-eating contests, and games involving thrones. We crown a victor and everyone else goes home empty-handed! In business, though, there isn’t just...
PBS
Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
The second law of thermodynamics - the law that entropy must, on average, increase - has been interpreted as the inevitability of the decay of structure. This is .... misleading. Structure can develop in one region even as the entropy of...
3Blue1Brown
Taylor series: Essence of Calculus - Part 11 of 11
Taylor series are extremely useful in engineering and math, but what are they? This video shows why they're useful, and how to make sense of the formula.
SciShow
Psychology Hacks to Become a Better Teacher (or Student!)
If you are a teacher who is trying to make new lesson plans, or a student trying to learn more, we have some psychology hacks for you!
TED Talks
TED: How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft
The pandemic forced the world to work together like never before and, with unprecedented speed, bore a new age of health and medical innovation. Physician-scientist Daniel Kraft explains how breakthroughs and advancements like AI-infused...
Bozeman Science
LS1D - Information Processing
In this video Paul Andersen explains how information is processed in in animals. He starts by describing the different forms of information and how they are received by receptors. He explains how information is received by the brain and...
Be Smart
Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
The origin of life is one of the most important mysteries in all of science. When did life begin? How did life first evolve from chemistry? Where did life get started? In some primordial soup or somewhere else? Let's journey back to the...
TED Talks
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that...
TED Talks
The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive | Niro Sivanathan
What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of...
TED Talks
TED: How China is changing the future of shopping | Angela Wang
China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million Chinese consumers -- the equivalent of the combined populations of the uS, uK and...
SciShow
Plastic Bunny 3D Printed From Its Own DNA
A team is encoding digital data into DNA molecules which are then embedded into larger physical objects, like this plastic bunny! And researchers are working on a new, low maintenance oral contraceptive.
TED Talks
Markus Mutz: How supply chain transparency can help the planet
Given the option, few would choose to buy products that harm the earth -- yet it's nearly impossible to know how most consumer goods are made or where they're sourced from. That's about to change, says supply chain innovator Markus Mutz....
SciShow
5 Things You Were Taught Wrong in Elementary School | Compilation
When you’re learning about science for the first time, it can be easier to break things down into a simpler form, and you can end up with a few misconceptions about the world. But sometimes this is the first step to understanding that...
SciShow
Creating Artificial Life
Scientists are working on creating organisms with designer genomes -- and someday, we might end up with bacteria manufacturing our jet fuel.
TED Talks
Jennifer Zhu Scott: Why you should get paid for your data
The world's most valuable tech companies profit from the personal data you generate. So why aren't you getting paid for it? In this eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and technologist Jennifer Zhu Scott makes the case for private data...
PBS
Is the Universe a Computer?
The universe is made up of information, similar to a computer, and physics (you know, the basis of the universe) certainly is based on computational principles. But is it running some grand program? Will the answer be 42? Make sure you...
PBS
The Black Hole Information Paradox
Black holes are the result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at...
SciShow
5 Videos on the Science of Memory
Michael Aranda hosts a compilation of videos discussing the science of memory!