Instructional Video17:36
TED Talks

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

12th - Higher Ed
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects...
Instructional Video14:57
TED Talks

TED: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

12th - Higher Ed
Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for...
Instructional Video15:55
TED Talks

TED: This computer will grow your food in the future | Caleb Harper

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology....
Instructional Video15:00
TED Talks

TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood

12th - Higher Ed
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
Instructional Video16:16
TED Talks

TED: The future of money | Neha Narula

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ethereum. We're...
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

Why Are Self-Driving Cars Taking So Long

12th - Higher Ed
Self-driving cars have been “coming soon” for years. What’s so hard about making a machine that drives itself!?
Instructional Video10:21
TED Talks

TED: Don't fear superintelligent AI | Grady Booch

12th - Higher Ed
New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how...
Instructional Video8:42
SciShow

3D Printing and the Future of Stuff

12th - Higher Ed
What if instead of going to the store to buy a new toilet brush, all you had to do was walk into your office and print one out? With recent advances in 3D printing, such a scenario might not be as far away as you think. Chapters PRINT...
Instructional Video18:57
TED Talks

TED: Nerdcore comedy | Ze Frank

12th - Higher Ed
Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.
Instructional Video16:14
TED Talks

TED: The big-data revolution in health care | Joel Selanikio

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask...
Instructional Video11:57
TED Talks

Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future

12th - Higher Ed
The transistors that power the phone in your pocket are unimaginably small: you can fit more than 3,000 of them across the width of a human hair. But to keep up with innovations in fields like facial recognition and augmented reality, we...
Instructional Video12:39
TED Talks

TED: Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

12th - Higher Ed
We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program -- two skills...
Instructional Video4:18
MinutePhysics

Tutorial - Creating the Sound of Hydrogen

12th - Higher Ed
In this tutorial I show how I synthesized the sound of hydrogen for the "Sound of Hydrogen" video using mathematica - it's a little technical, but you've been requesting it!
Instructional Video19:40
TED Talks

Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds

12th - Higher Ed
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs...
Instructional Video9:51
TED Talks

TED: Better cybersecurity starts with honesty and accountability | Nadya Bartol

12th - Higher Ed
In this practical talk, cybersecurity expert Nadya Bartol brings this crucial topic out into the open, lifting the shame around tech mistakes and offering creative ways to celebrate and reward good cybersecurity habits at work and...
Instructional Video15:17
TED Talks

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

12th - Higher Ed
Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. He calls out the two main offenders (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make the workplace actually work.
Instructional Video19:36
TED Talks

TED: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin

12th - Higher Ed
DNA isn't the only builder in the biological world -- there's also a mysterious bioelectric layer directing cells to work together to grow organs, systems and bodies, says biologist Michael Levin. Sharing unforgettable and groundbreaking...
Instructional Video10:53
Crash Course

Computer Engineering & the End of Moore's Law: Crash Course Engineering #35

12th - Higher Ed
This week we’re exploring a field of engineering that is essential to how you’re watching this video: computers and computer engineering. We’ll explain differences between hardware and software, how engineers are working on making...
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

How Close Are We to the Perfect Smart Home?

12th - Higher Ed
Want to do more than talk to your refrigerator and control your lights with your phone? Hank explains how close we are to the smart home that can do everything for us.
Instructional Video11:36
TED Talks

TED: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague | Nadjia Yousif

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine your company hires a new employee and then everyone just ignores them, day in and day out, while they sit alone at their desk getting paid to do nothing. This situation actually happens all the time -- when companies invest...
Instructional Video9:57
Crash Course

Software Engineering: Crash Course Computer Science

12th - Higher Ed
Today, we’re going to talk about how HUGE programs with millions of lines of code like Microsoft Office are built. Programs like these are way too complicated for a single person, but instead require teams of programmers using the tools...
Instructional Video9:29
TED Talks

TED: Why our screens make us less happy | Adam Alter

12th - Higher Ed
What are our screens and devices doing to us? Psychologist Adam Alter studies how much time screens steal from us and how they're getting away with it. He shares why all those hours you spend staring at your smartphone, tablet or...
Instructional Video15:53
TED Talks

TED: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA | Jennifer Doudna

12th - Higher Ed
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases ... but...
Instructional Video9:02
TED Talks

TED: A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare | Chris Bennett

12th - Higher Ed
Childcare needs a transformation -- but rather than investing billions in new buildings and schools, what if we could unlock the potential of people already nearby? Entrepreneur Chris Bennett offers an innovative way to tackle the...