Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

Top 10 New Species and the First Fusion Reactor

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the week in science news, including the top 10 new species discovered in 2014, and the start of construction of the first fusion reactor. It's gonna be big!
Instructional Video7:13
SciShow

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
Instructional Video12:44
TED Talks

TED: How a "Hi Level" mindset helps you realize your potential | Cordae

12th - Higher Ed
What does it take to build a legacy? Hip-hop artist Cordae tells how he went from mixtape-dropping high school kid to Grammy-nominated music star whose "Hi Level" mindset helps him achieve his dreams.
Instructional Video5:49
Bozeman Science

LS4A - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen describes several types of evidence for common ancestry. This evidence is contained in the fossils, embryos and molecules of living organisms. Even though life on our planet is incredibly diverse there are...
Instructional Video8:23
TED Talks

Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology

12th - Higher Ed
Genuine apology goes beyond remorse, says legendary playwright Eve Ensler. In this frank, wrenching talk, she shares how she transformed her own experience of abuse into wisdom on what wrongdoers can do and say to truly repent -- and...
Instructional Video13:15
TED Talks

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible

12th - Higher Ed
Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the...
Instructional Video11:55
TED Talks

TED: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food | Lisa Dyson

12th - Higher Ed
We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
Instructional Video10:34
TED Talks

TED: A mother and son united by love and art | Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

12th - Higher Ed
An art school professor once told Deborah Willis that she, as a woman, was taking a place from a good man -- but the storied photographer says she instead made a space for a good man, her son Hank Willis Thomas. In this moving talk, the...
Instructional Video7:32
TED Talks

TED: Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform | Marlon Peterson

12th - Higher Ed
For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a lifetime of irrelevance. While behind bars, Peterson found redemption through a penpal mentorship program...
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

Great Minds: Mary Anning, "The Greatest Fossilist in the World"

12th - Higher Ed
Learn about Mary Anning, one of England's most important contributors to the field of paleontology.
Instructional Video5:04
SciShow

3 Messages We've Sent to Extraterrestrials

12th - Higher Ed
In the 1970s, astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake developed the first messages intentionally sent out of our solar system. But how do you describe yourself to beings who have no concept of life on Earth?
Instructional Video13:00
TED Talks

Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids

12th - Higher Ed
The global fertility rate, or the number of children per woman, has halved over the last 50 years. What will having fewer babies mean for the future of humanity? In this funny, eye-opening talk, journalist (and self-described exhausted...
Instructional Video17:47
TED Talks

Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human

12th - Higher Ed
In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive...
Instructional Video12:39
TED Talks

TED: To solve old problems, study new species | Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado

12th - Higher Ed
Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious -- but biological research today tends to focus on only seven species, including rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver of life, says...
Instructional Video9:30
SciShow

8 Strange New Deep Sea Creatures

12th - Higher Ed
Learn about some new sea creatures that recently made their debut to the land world!
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow

Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal.
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

Turns Out, the Sun Is... Pretty Chill | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Life on Earth depends on the steady nature of our star, and an international team of scientists searched thousands of other stars to try to find out if the sun has always been as consistent as it is now. And According to a study...
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

Big Martian Lake!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the latest exciting findings from the Mars Science Laboratory, known to its friends as Curiosity. Learn what Curiosity has discovered about the giant Gale Crater, and what those developments mean for the prospects of ancient...
Instructional Video5:12
SciShow

Maybe There's No Phosphine on Venus | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Remember when astrophysicists thought they'd found signs of life on Venus? A different team re-crunched the numbers, and their results raised some questions about that claim. Also, a bunch of exoplanets are doing a really precise dance...
Instructional Video10:01
SciShow

6 Supplements That Might Actually Help You

12th - Higher Ed
More than half of Americans take a dietary supplement, but the truth is, most people don't need them. There are, however, a handful of supplements that can be helpful in some situations! Chapters BEET JUICE 2:58 ANTIOXIDANT MULTIVITAMINS...
Instructional Video17:19
TED Talks

TED: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people | Jimmy Nelson

12th - Higher Ed
When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us, you have to wait until you understand us." In this...
Instructional Video13:33
TED Talks

TED: A lesson in turning adversaries into allies | Leah Garcés

12th - Higher Ed
When you're on opposite sides of an issue, how do you broker peace with your adversaries and work together to solve a problem? Follow along as animal rights activist Leah Garcés recounts three lessons she learned in hatching an ambitious...
Instructional Video2:16
SciShow

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

12th - Higher Ed
How do they do it? Penguins standing on ice, not only for days, but their whole lives! And their feet don’t hurt like ours would. It has something to do with blood and an amazing twist that penguins have developed.
Instructional Video7:29
Crash Course

Elizabeth Key Crash Course Black American History

12th - Higher Ed
The legal system can seem like a complicated tangle of arcane rules and loopholes, and it can sometimes seem like it is designed to confuse. But it is possible, with the right application, for the legal system to rectify injustices....