What if we could use biology to restore our balance with nature without giving up modern creature comforts? Advocating for a new kind of environmentalism, scientist and entrepreneur Emily Leproust rethinks modern sustainability at the...

Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

Wolves were once native to the US' Yellowstone National Park -- until hunting wiped them out. But when, in 1995, the wolves began to come back (thanks to an aggressive management program), something interesting happened: the rest of the...

Two bespectacled science YouTubers enter, one bespectacled science YouTuber leaves ... because while they may look suspiciously alike, Joe Hanson has his own channels while Hank’s gonna stick around here. The only question is who will...

The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.

Last week we introduced Thomas Aquinas’s four cosmological arguments for the existence of god; today we introduce his fifth argument: the teleological argument, and the ensuing dialogue it initiated.

In this video Paul Andersen explains the basics of solid waste including trends over time, basic composition, and disposal. A brief description of the three R's (reuse, reduce, and recycle) is included as ways to minimize waste. ...

Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy.

Before there was Google, there were encyclopedias. The very idea of these vast collections of knowledge can be credited to Pliny The Elder. So who was he, and why does he seem to pop up everywhere from Alchemy to Zoology? Hank has the...

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products...

What puts the “science” in social science? Today we’ll explore positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world. We’ll also introduce two alternatives: interpretative sociology...

In this video Paul Andersen explains the nature of science. He describes how science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Scientists develop investigations to gather evidence and make explanations about how the natural world...

using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical...

Alice and Ted look for Imps in the woods. On the way they learn about static electricity and habitats, and spot animals including hares, rabbits, ducks, corvids and more.

Charles Darwin was a naturalist who forever changed the way we understand life on Earth. During a voyage on the HMS Beagle, he studied animals and fossils that inspired his theory of evolution. In his famous book On the Origin of...

Elves have taken many forms across cultures and centuries. In early Norse and Germanic myths, they were powerful and mysterious beings connected to nature and magic. Some were seen as helpful spirits, while others were blamed for illness...

From sunsets to double rainbows, nature’s full of beautiful things. So it’s not surprising that artists have found inspiration in Mother Nature for millennia. What is surprising is the wide variety of human concerns that nature art has...

Howcast - Learn about the role of nature in the Wiccan religion from Wiccan High Priestess Phyllis Curott in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn about witchcraft from Wiccan High Priestess Phyllis Curott in this Howcast video.

Pupil outcome: I can think like a geographer in the school grounds to notice, locate and explore signs of spring. Key learning points: - In the UK, spring falls in the months of March, April and May. - In spring, the days start to get...

Pupil outcome: I can explain what happens in Act 2, Scenes 3 and 4 of ‘Macbeth’ with a focus on the significance of the porter and the play’s settings. Key learning points: - Act 2, Scene 3 starts with a drunk porter who pretends to be...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how language has been used to describe the witches in Act 1, Scene 3 of ‘Macbeth’. Key learning points: - The witches could be interpreted as being presented as genderless - The witches' non-conformity to...

Pupil outcome: I can explain what happens in Act 4, Scenes 1 to 3 of ‘Macbeth’ with a focus on the character of Macbeth and the setting, Scotland. Key learning points: - Scotland is unstable under Macbeth’s leadership - In Act 4, Scene...

Pupil outcome: I can think like a geographer in the school grounds to notice, locate and explore signs of autumn. Key learning points: - It is autumn in the UK in September, October and November. - In autumn, the days start to get colder...