TED Talks
TED: Listening to shame | Brené Brown
Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor,...
SciShow
The Truth About 'Truth Serum'
Sodium pentothal, the so-called "truth serum,' is real! But does it work? Find out what "truth serums' do, and how your brain lets you tell lies.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The myth of Oisin and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie
In a typical hero's journey, the protagonist sets out on an adventure, undergoes great change and returns in triumph to their point of origin. But in the Irish genre of myth known as echtrai, the journey to the otherworld ends in a point...
TED Talks
TED: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant | Luhan Yang
For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to create a process for transplanting animal organs into humans, a theoretical dream that could help the hundreds of thousands of people in need of a lifesaving transplant. But the...
SciShow
The 19th Century Science That's Fighting Climate Change Today
The HMS Challenger embarked in the 1870s to survey the world’s oceans. The data the expedition collected is still being used over 100 years later to inform what we know about climate change.
TED Talks
Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes tells the story of Tori Murden McClure, who dreamed of rowing across the Atlantic in a small boat -- but whose dream was almost capsized by waves the size of a seven-story building. Through video, story and...
3Blue1Brown
Limits, L'Hôpital's rule, and epsilon delta definitions | Essence of calculus, chapter 7
What are limits? How are they defined? How are they used to define the derivative? What is L'Hospital's rule?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can't completely avoid accidents altogether. How should the car be programmed if it...
MinutePhysics
Relativity of Simultaneity | Special Relativity Ch. 4
The previous videos in this series: Chapter 1: Why Relativity is Hard Chapter 2: Spacetime Diagrams Chapter 3: Lorentz Transformations This video is chapter 4 in my series on special relativity, and it covers how things that appear...
TED Talks
Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence
Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective: four tricky sensations that can reveal -- or conceal -- what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations.
TED Talks
Beardyman: The polyphonic me
Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just the sounds he makes with his voice. Given that he can effortlessly conjure the...
SciShow
Two New Planets Discovered?
Click here to find out more about "New Planets Found!" and "SUPER EARTH Orbiting Our Sun!". Ignore the clickbait...Hank Green explains what might have been found in this episode of SciShow Space.
SciShow
Why There's a Straight Line Through Scotland
If you take a look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice an eerily straight line running through the highlands, this is the Great Glen Fault the product of half a billion years of time and geology.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? | Dan Finkel
Ragnarok: The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future. The gods were winning until the great serpent Jörmungandr emerged. It swallowed Valhalla and contorted itself across the land. Odin has...
SciShow
This Is Your Brain on GPS
Researchers have revealed a potentially life-saving rapid blood type test, and does using GPS to get around make your brain lazy?
SciShow
The Terrifying Fish with Transparent Teeth
The deep-sea dragonfish is a predator that lives deep in the Pacific Ocean. Like many other deep sea predators, it's got an oversized jaw and a bioluminescent appendage to attract prey, but it does have one weird (and strangely useful)...
TED Talks
TED: How Ikea is growing its business while shrinking emissions | Jesper Brodin and Pia Heidenmark Cook
IKEA currently makes up 0.1 percent of all global carbon emissions -- but by 2030, they're planning to be carbon negative across their business. Discussing new thinking about the lifespan of their products, from the forest to the...
TED Talks
TED: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? | Charles C. Mann
By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody with basic needs while also avoiding the worst impacts of climate change? In a talk packed with wit and wisdom, science journalist Charles...
TED Talks
Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds -- within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: "Machine intelligence is the...
SciShow
How Do Those Rock Sculptures Stay Up?
You may have seen rock sculptures seemingly defying physics in your newsfeed, but what's actually happening?
Crash Course
Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes: Crash Course Theater #4
Get ready for hilarity, because this week, we're diving head first into Greek Comedy. Actually, though, maybe don't get TOO ready for hilarity. Taste in humor has changed a little over the last couple of thousand years. You already know...
SciShow
The Simple Molecule Behind Our Complex Universe
All the complexity in the universe ultimately owes its existence to one of the simplest materials possible: molecular hydrogen. And not only did this molecule play a huge role in building the universe as we know it, today, it also helps...
SciShow
Human Experimentation: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
In the early days of the space race, agency researchers in Russia and at NASA really weren't sure all what would happen to an astronaut in space. They didn't know if a human mind could handle actually seeing Earth or what would happen to...