Curated Video
Venus
Venus is a gorgeous naked-eye planet, hanging like a diamond in the twilight -- but it’s beauty is best looked at from afar. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, due to a runaway...
TED Talks
Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life.
TED Talks
Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes the kind of people she...
TED Talks
TED: How we can find ourselves in data | Giorgia Lupi
Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and...
SciShow
7 Ways We Know What's Inside the Earth
Thanks to some amazing scientific insights, we know a lot about the interior of our planet - even though we’ve never even made it through the crust.
SciShow
Attack of the Brain-Eating Killer Songbirds
Zombies aren't coming for you brains, but for an unfortunate species of bats, the terror of seemingly sweet songbirds developing a taste for brains is a horrific reality.
TED Talks
TED: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up | Ash Beckham
In this touching talk, Ash Beckham offers a fresh approach to empathy and openness. It starts with understanding that everyone, at some point in their life, has experienced hardship. The only way out, says Beckham, is to open the door...
MinuteEarth
Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀
Way more kids have fuzzy vision these days because we spend less time in outdoor light, which makes our eyeballs longer.
SciShow
Why Can't I Get Rid of This Cowlick?
You or someone you know may have struggled to get a cowlick to just stay down already, but you can take solace in the fact that these inconvenient hair tufts have a lot to teach us about the world around us.
TED Talks
Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health
You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.
TED Talks
JP Rangaswami: Information is food
How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.
TED Talks
TED: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop | Anand Agarawala
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."
3Blue1Brown
Higher order derivatives | Essence of calculus, chapter 10
What is the second derivative? Third derivative? How do you think about these?
MinuteEarth
The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
Humans can hold our breath longer than we think by taking advantage of our body’s innate survival instincts - and then ignoring them. __________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:...
PBS
The End of the Habitable Zone
The Sun is getting brighter and the planets in our solar system that are habitable are changing.
SciShow
How Our Brains Learn Consciousness
Neuroscience is abound with debates over the nature of consciousness. Which makes sense, because it’s a very abstract idea. We know we are conscious, but theories of why, how and what brain activity causes it are still simply that:...
TED Talks
Renny Gleeson: Our antisocial phone tricks
In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.
TED Talks
TED: Refugees have the right to be protected | António Guterres
António Guterres thinks that we can solve the global refugee crisis -- and he offers compelling, surprising reasons why we must try. In conversation with TED's Bruno Giussani, Guterres discusses the historical causes of the current...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do we determine the value of a life? | Rebecca L. Walker
To protect against a possible resurgence of smallpox, the US government is funding research to improve treatments and vaccines. And since it's unethical to expose people to a highly lethal virus, labs are using monkeys as research...
SciShow
Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
Find out what kinds of things are lurking near the center of our galaxy!
Crash Course
Witchcraft: Crash Course European History
During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the European world into turmoil. People were looking for a...
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show! Peter, Self-healing Skin, & Professor Claw the Emperor Scorpion
Featuring Peter Winkler, our SciShow graphics guru, and Professor Claw, the emperor scorpion. We decided it would be cool to have guests come into the studio and talk about science with Hank. in this episode, Peter and Hank discuss the...