SciShow
Mental Health Apps: How Medicine Can Keep Up With Tech
There are thousands of mental health apps out there claiming to do everything from easing insomnia to treating PTSD symptoms, but are those really effective?
Crash Course
Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7
With the amount of fake and doctored photos and videos out there, how can we know what to trust? Most of us are used to thinking that "seeing is believing" but as technology makes it easier and easier to spread unreliable content online...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle
Your town is holding a mayoral election and the stakes have never been higher. You suspect one of the candidates will begin pushing false information to swing the election. As the cybersecurity expert, your job is to inoculate the...
Crash Course
Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3
Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help...
SciShow
Why Do We Keep Needing New "G"s?
What’s with all the "G"s and why do we keep having to develop new ones to use our phones in this technology.
TED Talks
TED: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed | Gary Liu
The Chinese internet has grown at a staggering pace -- it now has more users than the combined populations of the US, UK, Russia, Germany, France and Canada. Even with its imperfections, the lives of once-forgotten populations have been...
SciShow
High-Fructose Corn Syrup: The "Dark Lord" of Nutrition
Hank takes on high fructose corn syrup - the new "dark lord of nutrition" - to help explain the ambiguities around all the claims being made about it.
TED Talks
Arnav Kapur: How AI could become an extension of your mind
Try talking to yourself without opening your mouth, by simply saying words internally. What if you could search the internet like that -- and get an answer back? In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur...
TED Talks
TED: A vision of crimes in the future | Marc Goodman
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a...
Crash Course
Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general...
TED Talks
TED: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim urban
Tim urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, urban takes us on a journey through YouTube...
TED Talks
Jack Dorsey: How Twitter needs to change
Can Twitter be saved? In a wide-ranging conversation with TED's Chris Anderson and Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discusses the future of the platform -- acknowledging problems with harassment and moderation and...
SciShow
How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science
You may have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation phenomenon, but it isn't just a fun celebrity game, it helps scientists understand the spread of epidemics, the structure of the internet, and even the neural networks in your brain
Crash Course
Evaluating Evidence: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #6
Today we’re going to focus on how to tell good evidence from bad evidence and maybe importantly, how to identify “Fine, but that doesn’t actually prove your point” evidence - the stuff that the Internet is built on.
SciShow
The Future Of Back To The Future
We're going back to the future! The real-life 2015 looks a little different than the movie version, though.
SciShow
How the Krack Hack Breaks Wi-Fi Security
After 14 years of going unnoticed, a vulnerability in Wi-Fi security was published last week. It's a serious problem, but it's already in the process of being fixed.
TED Talks
TED: How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music | Kyra Gaunt
How does music shape us? Digital ethnomusicologist and TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt studies how Black girls can preserve the integrity of their own voices while listening, dancing and singing to pop songs largely engineered by men, often with...
SciShow
World's Most Asked Questions How Can I Get Rid of the Hiccups
People ask Google everything under the sun. One of the most commonly searched questions in the world is “How do I get rid of hiccups?” Allow us at SciShow to explain.
TED Talks
Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act
Recent events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner whose data passes through an American entity -- whether they are suspected of wrongdoing or not....
TED Talks
Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons
In a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring...
TED Talks
TED: How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan
The internet can be an ugly place, but you won't find bullies or trolls on Stuart Duncan's Minecraft server, AutCraft. Designed for children with autism and their families, AutCraft creates a safe online environment for play and...
SciShow
Why Are Celebrity Crushes So Intense?
Your love for Rihanna or Tom Hardy may be unrequited, but that doesn't necessarily make it unhealthy.
SciShow
Do Personality Tests Mean Anything?
Like most quizzes on the internet, personality tests aren't what you would call "reliable."