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Curated Video

GWT: Report of Royal Marines pilot on patrol

Higher Ed
1. Various of pilot doing exercises 2. Various of pilot getting ready 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Hammond, Pilot "I think there's a feeling in the squadron that we've been very successful so far and fortunately our luck has held but...
Instructional Video4:16
Curated Video

SpaceX announces first private moon passenger

Higher Ed
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever private commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong...
Instructional Video4:51
SciShow

Satellite Squad Goals: The Cluster Mission to the Magnetic Field

12th - Higher Ed
Earth’s magnetic field is special! And, in the last 20 years, we’ve made incredible discoveries, thanks to a squad of probes that have flown around our planet, observing solar wind as a team!
Instructional Video4:56
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How one woman put man on the moon - Matt Porter and Margaret Hamilton

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts, mission control, software and hardware all working together as a seamless integrated system. None of which would have been possible without the contributions of one engineer: Margaret...
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TED Talks

TED: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions | Scott Galloway

12th - Higher Ed
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares...
Instructional Video11:09
Curated Video

Jesse Jackson: Crash Course Black American History #44

12th - Higher Ed
Today, Clint Smith is teaching you about the Civil Rights activist and Icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jackson began his career working with Martin Luther King in the 1960s, and in the 1970s he founded PUSH, an organization to advance the...
Instructional Video9:25
SciShow

4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics

12th - Higher Ed
The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics.
Instructional Video11:14
Crash Course

Apocalypse Now: Crash Course Film Criticism

12th - Higher Ed
Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" is a different kind of war movie. It's a multi-genre film that maybe says more about human psychology than it does about war. In this episode of Crash Course Film Criticism, Michael Aranda takes us...
Instructional Video7:27
SciShow

The Evolution of Male Homosexuality

12th - Higher Ed
Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, the fossil evidence of squishy baby skulls, toddler...
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

How Computers Revolutionized Space Travel

12th - Higher Ed
As computers have gotten more powerful, they’ve completely transformed how we explore the solar system. And along the way, the space industry has given computer science a boost too.
Instructional Video13:07
Crash Course

2001 - A Space Odyssey: Crash Course Film Criticism

12th - Higher Ed
Well, here we are. It's the final episode of Crash Course Film Criticism and we're going to chat about one of the more polarizing films ever made: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the surface, 2001 tells the story of human...
Instructional Video10:53
TED Talks

TED: A NASA astronaut's lessons on fear, confidence and preparing for spaceflight | Megan McArthur

12th - Higher Ed
How does an astronaut prepare physically and mentally to launch into space? NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, who traveled to the International Space Station in April 2021 as part of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission, shares stellar life lessons on...
Instructional Video7:06
TED Talks

TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Dragonfly -- a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body -- is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist...
Instructional Video22:45
SciShow

Here's What It Took to Put Humans on the Moon | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
To freshen up your Apollo knowledge, here is a good dive into the science and engineering that put people on the moon.
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

This Reaction Could Let Us Live on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
There is a chemical reaction discovered a century ago that could be the key to creating everything from fuel to shelter on Mars!
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

Returning to Venus and Getting a Closer Look to Ganymede

12th - Higher Ed
Good news for fans of Venus - last week, NASA announced two new missions to learn more about our planetary neighbor! And this week, NASA's Juno mission sent back a treasure trove of data about Ganymede - the largest moon in our solar...
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

Our Galaxy Could Be Full of Exoplanets with Oceans | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Earlier this spring NASA announced a new research model that predicts that ocean worlds are far from rare, and our galaxy might be full of them. And a new study examines evidence that Pluto may have had an underground ocean all along!
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

Israel Is Getting Ready for Their First Moon Landing! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The Beresheet lander is on its way to the moon and Jupiter's magnetic field might be affecting Europa's ocean.
Instructional Video13:17
TED Talks

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The most powerful woman you've never heard of

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone's heard of Martin Luther King Jr. But do you know the woman Dr. King called "the architect of the civil rights movement," Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation's most legendary activists -- like Rosa Parks, Diane...
Instructional Video10:41
TED Talks

TED: How to build for human life on Mars | Melodie Yashar

12th - Higher Ed
We're going to be building on the Moon this decade -- and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonomous robots and 3D printers and...
Instructional Video7:46
TED Talks

TED: 10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet | Johan Rockström

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time, we are forced to consider the real risk of destabilizing the entire planet, says climate impact scholar Johan Rockström. In a talk backed by vivid animations of the climate crisis, he shows how nine out of the 15 big...
Instructional Video33:33
SciShow

Was the Apollo Program a Bad Idea A SciShow Documentary

12th - Higher Ed
The Apollo program was famous for being risky and expensive. It had a crunched timeline, daring astronauts, and lacked modern tech, and that all kind of makes you wonder… was the Apollo program a bad idea?
Instructional Video19:27
TED Talks

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

12th - Higher Ed
When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In...
Instructional Video8:17
Be Smart

So You Want to go to Mars?

12th - Higher Ed
Can't wait to get into outer space? Well there's a bit you need to know first... Spending time in zero gravity can have some pretty extreme effects on the human body. Still scientists are already making plans for long trips to other...