Instructional Video15:53
TED Talks

Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?

12th - Higher Ed
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn't happen quickly enough to allow recovery from degenerative conditions like...
Instructional Video6:15
TED Talks

TED: Impossible photography | Erik Johansson

12th - Higher Ed
Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping...
Instructional Video10:34
TED Talks

TED: How to fix the "bugs" in the net-zero code | Lucas Joppa

12th - Higher Ed
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft's first chief environmental officer, thinks about climate change through the lens of coding, and he says the world's current net-zero approach simply won't compute. So how do we create a system that actually...
Instructional Video5:19
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The motion of the ocean - Sasha Wright

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The constant motion of our oceans represents a vast and complicated system involving many different drivers. Sasha Wright explains the physics behind one of those drivers -- the concentration gradient -- and illustrates how our oceans...
Instructional Video13:35
TED Talks

Bruno Torturra: Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting

12th - Higher Ed
In 2011, journalist Bruno Torturra covered a protest in São Paulo which turned ugly. His experience of being teargassed had a profound effect on the way he thought about his work, and he quit his job to focus on broadcasting raw,...
Instructional Video7:48
Bozeman Science

Thinking in Causation - Level 5 - Probability and Prediction

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on probability and prediction. TERMS: Cause - a thing that gives rise to an event Effect - an event Relationship- interconnection between parts of a system...
Instructional Video5:20
SciShow

The Simple Molecule Behind Our Complex Universe

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:07
MinutePhysics

Cuando llueve, ¿es mejor caminar o correr?

12th - Higher Ed
En esos días fríos y lluviosos en los que olvidas tu impermeable o paraguas y quieres mantenerte lo más seco posible, ¿deberías caminar y pasar más tiempo bajo la lluvia? o ¿deberías correr, lo que significa atravesar más gotas de agua...
Instructional Video18:33
TED Talks

David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?

12th - Higher Ed
Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: “There’s nothing we know about more directly…. but at the same time it’s the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe.” He shares some ways to...
Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The mighty mathematics of the lever - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Archimedes once said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth." While the idea of a person moving such a huge mass on their own might sound impossible, chances are you've seen this idea in action at your local playground....
Instructional Video6:13
TED Talks

TED: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface | Will Marshall

12th - Higher Ed
What if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? Will Marshall and his team at Planet use the world's largest fleet of satellites to image the entire Earth every day. Now they're moving on to a new...
Instructional Video7:16
Bozeman Science

Archaea

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen describes the defining characteristics of members in the domain archaebacteria. He starts with a brief description of the phylogeny of this group. He then describes the major characteristics on an archaea,...
Instructional Video3:57
TED Talks

TED: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian | Graham Hill

12th - Higher Ed
We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic suggestion: Be a weekday veg.
Instructional Video15:31
TED Talks

Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing

12th - Higher Ed
Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found art, urban patterns -- this slideshow will open your eyes to the world around you.
Instructional Video17:48
TED Talks

Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world

12th - Higher Ed
As we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies -- and make the world a little...
Instructional Video5:12
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Tomás Chor: Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You're on an airplane when you feel a sudden jolt. Outside your window nothing seems to be happening, yet the plane continues to rattle you and your fellow passengers as it passes through turbulent air in the atmosphere. What exactly is...
Instructional Video13:46
TED Talks

Mark Kendall: Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

12th - Higher Ed
One hundred sixty years after the invention of the needle and syringe, we're still using them to deliver vaccines; it's time to evolve. Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demos the Nanopatch, a one-centimeter-by-one-centimeter square...
Instructional Video15:51
TED Talks

TED: An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection | Marina Abramovic

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Marina Abramovi's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and...
Instructional Video12:22
TED Talks

TED: How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli

12th - Higher Ed
How can we get people to do more good: to go to the polls, give to charity, conserve resources or just generally act better towards others? MIT research scientist Erez Yoeli shares a simple checklist for harnessing the power of...
Instructional Video3:46
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: A trip through space to calculate distance - Heather Tunnell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Imagine two aliens racing across outer space to their moon. Who can we deem the fastest alien? With DIRT -- or the equation Distance = Rate x Time -- we can calculate their rates, using the distance they traveled and the time they took....
Instructional Video2:58
SciShow

Why Are Marine Mammals So Big

12th - Higher Ed
Marine mammals are famously large, but why is that? And is there a polar bear-sized sea otter in our future?
Instructional Video12:42
TED Talks

TED: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it) | Christoph Niemann

12th - Higher Ed
Without realizing it, we're fluent in the language of pictures, says illustrator Christoph Niemann. In a charming talk packed with witty, whimsical drawings, Niemann takes us on a hilarious visual tour that shows how artists tap into our...
Instructional Video2:31
SciShow Kids

Why Do We Have Earwax?

K - 5th
Have you ever put your finger in your ear and wondered what that waxy stuff is? Join Jessi and Squeaks as they talk about ear wax!
Instructional Video15:29
TED Talks

TED: My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | AJ Jacobs

12th - Higher Ed
Author AJ Jacobs embarked on a quest with a deceptively simple idea at its heart: to personally thank every person who helped make his morning cup of coffee. More than one thousand "thank yous" later, Jacobs reflects on the...