SciShow
How Can I Make A Traffic Light Turn Green?
If you've ever been stuck at a red light on a country road, you know it can be annoying. No other cars for miles, but you can't shake the feeling that if you run the light, one will appear out of nowhere and slam into you. Today we have...
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The Physics of Roller Coasters
Roller coasters give people the opportunity to experience physics in dramatic ways. In this episode of SciShow, we break down how physics work on roller coasters to give you the ride of your life!
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The Most Metal Algorithm in Computer Science
Have a problem with many competing variables? Why not solve it with a computer algorithm based on cooling metal?
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SciShow: Winter Compilation
We here at SciShow compiled a list of videos based on popular requests. Hank Green hosts with this winter themed episode!
SciShow
Hardcore Metal Stars
SciShow Space describes a new phenomenon that might be out there: Stars made entirely out of metal. But it's not quite what it sounds like!
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Can Moon Colonies Get Oxygen From the...Moon?
As we look towards longer missions to the Moon, the shear amount of resources needed to survive becomes a much bigger question. Without space semi-trucks to haul life-giving resources to astronauts, can we utilize the Moon’s barren...
TED Talks
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A visual history of inequality in industrial America
For the last 12 years, LaToya Ruby Frazier has photographed friends, neighbors and family in Braddock, Pennsylvania. But though the steel town has lately been hailed as a posterchild of "rustbelt revitalization," Frazier's pictures tell...
SciShow
The World Is Built on Sand... and We're Running Out
Some might call sand coarse, rough and irritating, but there’s no denying that it’s used everywhere: from glass to asphalt, sand is a key ingredient for all sorts of materials in construction and technology. But this heavy reliance on...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Scale - Level 1 - Describing Scale
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on describing scale. TERMS Scale - the relative size or extent of something Objects - a material thing that can be seen and touched Phenomena - observable events in...
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Hiding a Nobel Prize From the Nazis
To keep their solid gold Nobel Prizes away from the Nazis, James Franck and Max von Laue sent their medals to trusted colleague Niels Bohr. But when Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, the medals were no longer safe - so chemist George de...
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Japans Ominous Dancing Cats and the Disaster That Followed
In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.
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The Mollusk Hiding Rare Minerals in its Teeth
Chitons are constantly scraping their teeth on rocks to eat the algae off of them, but that means their teeth need to be pretty tough. And it turns out one species's teeth are the hardest, stiffest biominerals in any living thing we've...
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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-Ed
TED-Ed: Insights into cell membranes via dish detergent - Ethan Perlstein
The cell membrane, like a good jacket, protects the cell from everything outside of it. How is it simultaneously sturdy, flexible, and capable of allowing the right things to pass through? Ethan Perlstein rediscovers the scientists and...
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Making Reactions Go Faster Since the 1700s | Great Minds: Elizabeth Fulhame
The chemical process of catalysis happens in a myriad of places in our modern world - from industry to inside your cells. Our knowledge of catalysis today springs from Elizabeth Fulhame, who over 225 years ago became the first person to...
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Did Scientists Really Make Metallic Hydrogen?
The Researchers reconstructed the face of the organism which might be one of our earliest ancestors. Meanwhile, two researchers from Harvard announced that they have created solid metallic hydrogen.
TED Talks
Zach Kaplan + Keith Schacht: Toys and materials from the future
The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole.
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3 Unexpected Dangers of Space Travel
We all know space travel is pretty dangerous, but here are a few more things that you probably wouldn't have thought to look out for!
SciShow
SPACE MINING
Hank summarizes the exciting news about Planetary Resources, a company with plans to mine near-earth asteroids for precious metals and water, and what these plans might mean for humanity's future in space.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Will future spacecraft fit in our pockets? - Dhonam Pemba
When you picture a rocket, you might imagine a giant ship carrying lots of fuel, people and supplies. But what if the next wave of spacecraft were small enough to fit into our pockets? Dhonam Pemba details the future of microspacecraft,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The myth of Loki's monstrous children | Iseult Gillespie
Odin, the king of Asgard, was plagued by nightmares. Three fearsome figures haunted his dreams: a massive, writhing shadow; a shambling, rotting corpse; and worst of all, a monstrous beast with a deadly bite. Though their true forms were...
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The Fastest Human-Made Object Ever
The record for the fastest thing ever created by humans is a tie between the Helios 2 probe and a manhole cover.