SciShow Kids
What’s Your Funny Bone?
Sometimes, when you bump your elbow really hard, your arm can get all weird and tingly, all the way down to your fingers! Some people call that "hitting your funny bone," but what you're hitting isn't a bone at all!
SciShow Kids
Why Can’t I Eat Peanut Butter?
Some people (maybe you!) can't eat certain foods because they're allergic to them. People can have an allergic reaction to almost any kind of food, or even other things, like bee stings! But all allergies have something in common: our...
TED Talks
Greg Lynn: Organic algorithms in architecture
Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his...
TED Talks
TED: How NASA invented a ventilator for COVID-19 ... in 37 days | Dan Goods
Get the behind-the-scenes story from visual strategist Dan Goods about how a single question launched NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab into action at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling an unprecedented pivot from space-exploring...
Crash Course
Homunculus - Crash Course Psychology
HOMUNCULUS! It's a big and weird word that you may or may not have heard before, but do you know what it means? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us a deeper understanding of this weird model of human sensation.
SciShow Kids
What are Boogers?
What’s that stuff up your nose? Does it do anything? SciShow Kids explains the science of boogers!
SciShow
The Plants That Live on Artificial Light (and Why That’s Bad)
Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it's all our fault.
SciShow
Are Your Eyes Part of Your Brain?
When you think of a brain, you probably imagine that pink, wrinkly organ in your skull, but we don’t have to stop there! Neither the brain’s functions, nor its cells, are confined to the organ we normally think of as the brain.
PBS
Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
We'll soon be capable of building self-replicating robots. This will not only change humanity's future but reshape the galaxy as we know it.
TED Talks
TED: The architectural mastermind behind modern Singapore | Liu Thai Ker
Cities designed like families can last for generations. Skeptical? Look to master architect Liu Thai Ker, who transformed Singapore into a modern marvel with his unique approach to sustainable urban design. Liu shares creative wisdom and...
TED Talks
Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials...
SciShow
Nobels 2016 How Your Cells Stave Off Starvation
It’s Nobel Prize week 2016, which means it’s basically science Christmas!
SciShow
How Machines the Size of Molecules Could Change the World
Future advances in engineering may come from chemistry. From molecular motors to salt-shaker-drug-deliverers, the future looks small.
PBS
The Real Meaning of E=mc Squared
You've probably known OF E=mc_ since you were born, and were also probably told that it meant that it proved Mass equaled Energy, or something along those lines. BUT WAIT. Was E=mc_ explained to you properly? Mass equalling energy is...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Systems - Level 4 - Hierarchy of Systems
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on the hierarchy of systems. TERMS: System interactions - Complex systems - consisting of many different and connected parts Sub-systems - a self-contained system...
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: The History of Gender & Kiki the Domestic Cat
This week on the show Dr. Lindsey Doe, host of Sexplanations, walks us through a history of cases that have altered our understanding of gender identity. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show with Kiki, a domestic cat.
SciShow
What Neuroscience Can Learn from Meditation
Meditation methods and the scientific method are teaming up to explore some of the deepest questions about our existence and human nature.
TED Talks
Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"
3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print...
TED Talks
Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing
2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things -- including intricate objects...
SciShow
The Speedy Cold-Hearted Tuna
Most fish are pretty sluggish in the cold. But the Pacific bluefin tuna is one of the fastest apex predators in the frigid Pacific ocean. Their physiology has adapted to help them retain more of the heat their bodies produce, except when...
SciShow
Does Music Really Make Babies Smarter?
There's a myth out there that music will make your baby smarter. But it turns out that Mozart will not turn your baby into Einstein.
SciShow
5 More Computer Viruses You Really Don't Want to Get
From taking your files ransom to foiling uranium enrichment, here are five more computer viruses that you really want to avoid.
SciShow Kids
Winter at the North Pole!
Winter means a lot of changes, and while you might think it's cold outside, some animals can't wait for it to get colder so that they have an easier time finding their next meal!
SciShow Kids
Compound Eyes: See Like a Dragonfly! | Amazing Animal Senses | SciShow Kids
Jessi and Squeaks learn all about how dragonflies see - did you know they have thousands of eyes?! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...