MinutePhysics
Where Does Complexity Come From? (Big Picture Ep. 3/5)
This video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how complex things like life can arise from disorder. Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it!...
Crash Course
Crossed Aldol Reactions, Enones, and Conjugate Addition: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Insects can communicate with each other about all kinds of things, but instead of using words, they use… you guessed it! Organic Chemistry! Insects can send signals to each other by secreting compounds, and one such compound used by...
Crash Course
Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces: Crash Course Computer Science
Today, we are going to start our discussion on user experience. We've talked a lot in this series about how computers move data around within the computer, but not so much about our role in the process. So today, we're going to look at...
Curated Video
When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
Do Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, Philip K. Dick, Hugo Gernsback, Robert Heinlein, or Isaac Asimov hold a candle to H.G. Wells when it comes to correctly predicting the future of science via science fiction? And why does...
3Blue1Brown
Differential equations, studying the unsolvable | DE1
What is a differential equation, the pendulum equation, and some basic numerical methods
SciShow
The Most Beautiful Science of 2012
Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...
Bozeman Science
What is CRISPR?
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the CRISPR/Cas immune system was identified in bacteria and how the CRISPR/Cas9 system was developed to edit genomes.
TED Talks
Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
In the US, the very same blood test can cost $19 at one clinic and $522 at another clinic just blocks away -- and nobody knows the difference until they get a bill weeks later. Journalist Jeanne Pinder says it doesn't have to be this...
SciShow Kids
Recycling Old Crayons! An Earth Day Activity
Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: PS1.B: Chemical Reactions - Heating or cooling a...
Bozeman Science
PS3A - Definitions of Energy
In this video Paul Andersen attempts to explain the age old questions - What is Energy? Even though it comes in many forms one of the defining characteristics of energy is that it is conserved over time. He then explains that all energy...
Crash Course
Defense Against the Dark Arts of Influence: Crash Course Business Soft Skills
How do con artists manage to scam millions? Why do people choose to follow great leaders, or horrible ones? How do CEOs get better deals in the boardroom? Influence. In this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn chats to us about what...
TED Talks
TED: Why play is essential for business | Martin Reeves
To thrive in today's competitive economy, you need to constantly reimagine your business. So what's the secret to sustained success? Strategist Martin Reeves makes a pitch for embracing play to spark innovative business ideas -- and...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Causation - Level 7 - Scale Mechanisms in Complex Systems
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on scale mechanisms within complex systems. TERMS: Cause and effect relationships - one event that gives rise to another event Complex systems - a system composed of...
TED Talks
TED: How games make kids smarter | Gabe Zichermann
Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking.
SciShow
Fire, Lightning, and Crystals in Space: 20 Years on the ISS
2020 marks two decades of people living and working about the ISS, and from fireballs to microgravity grown crystals, they've been keeping busy.
TED Talks
TED: Computing a theory of all knowledge | Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the...
TED Talks
Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could...
TED Talks
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into...
3Blue1Brown
Hamming codes and error correction
A discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Causation - Level 4 - Cause, Mechanism and Effect
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on cause, mechanism and effect. TERMS: Cause - a thing that gives rise to an event Effect - an event Mechanism - the process underlying a phenomenon System - a set of...
TED Talks
TED: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures | Fei-Fei Li
When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes...
TED Talks
Harish Manwani: Profit’s not always the point
You might not expect the chief operating officer of a major global corporation to look too far beyond either the balance sheet or the bottom line. But Harish Manwani, COO of Unilever, makes a passionate argument that doing so to include...
TED Talks
TED: Fractals and the art of roughness | Benoit Mandelbrot
At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.