TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can loud music damage your hearing? | Heather Malyuk
After a concert, you find it difficult to hear your friend rave about the show. It sounds like they're speaking from across the room, and it's tough to make out their voice over the ringing in your ears. But, by the next morning, the...
SciShow Kids
Birds that Talk!
Birds can communicate with each other in lots of ways, but some types of birds can learn human words! But just because they learn human words, does that mean that they can understand them?
SciShow
Noise Pollution Is a Bigger Deal Than Youd Think
Humans make a lot of noise! Transportation, industries, & how we work and play in natural spaces all have an impact on the sound we put out every day, and all this noise pollution is disrupting how animals use sound to communicate.
Be Smart
Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
Asteroid mining sounds like something out of a bad space movie, but harvesting materials from space rocks might be our ticket to building space colonies or living on Mars.
SciShow Kids
Echolocation: Seeing with Sound! | Amazing Animal Senses | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Mister Brown learn all about echolocation, and how animals use it to sense things! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...
Crash Course
Sound: Crash Course Physics
We learn a lot about our surroundings thanks to sound. But... what is it exactly? Sound, that is. What is sound? And how does it travel? And what is this Doppler Effect that we've heard so much about? In this episode of Crash Course...
SciShow
How Some People Echolocate Like Bats
Animals like bats and dolphins navigate the world using echolocation, but there’s also another animal capable of such a feat: humans.
Crash Course Kids
Architecture Adventure
If we want to build a place for us to live, or to hang out, or do eat dinner with our friends, we're going to need a special kind of engineering called architecture. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina gets us to help her build...
MinuteEarth
Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?
SciShow
Should You Stop Saying 'Like' and 'Um'?
Y’know lots of people say you shouldn’t use, like...filler words, but uh, should you really like, stop using them?
SciShow
The Secret Language of Elephants
You are probably aware of the fact that elephants make trumpeting noises - but did you know that most of their communication is so low pitched that humans can’t even hear it?
SciShow
When Does Your Brain Stop Developing?
How do you define adulthood? It's a difficult question because that delicate brain of yours stays squishy well after you start paying your own rent.
MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth Explains: Cats vs Dogs
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we learn more about the planet’s two favorite pets.
SciShow
Why Baby Talk Is Good for Babies
You may have heard that using baby talk is bad for children’s language development, but research seems to show the exact opposite.
Bozeman Science
Diffraction Effects
In this video Paul Andersen explains how diffraction can be affected by the size of the wavelength. When waves pass through an opening or move around an obstacle a shadow region is created. The size of the shadow zone will decrease as...
PBS
Is Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
While some people may hear noise, some hear amazing musical genius in the creativity of Dubstep. There is a long history of avant garde musicians and thinkers promoting the concept of noise and non-instrumental sounds as music, much to...
Crash Course
Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye Part 1
In which John Green examines JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. John pulls out the old school literary criticism by examining the text itself rather than paying attention to the biographical or historical context of the novel...
SciShow
All This Noise Is KILLING Me!
The sounds we hear every day really do have effects on our health. Not just our ears, but our hearts and even our brains.
SciShow
Do These Eyes Freak You Out?
If gigantic googly eyes make you want to run away, it’s because you are responding to a supernormal stimulus. But what is it, and why our brain responds to it?
Crash Course Kids
Life on Other Planets
Have you ever wondered if there is anyone (or anything) else out there in the universe? Well, you're not alone. But what would alien life look like? And what would their food chains and food webs look like? In this episode of Crash...
SciShow Kids
How to Find a Meteorite!
Maybe you've seen a shooting star, a bright streak of light that zips across the sky! But did you know that those shooting stars are actually rocks falling from space? And sometimes you can find them on the ground! Find out how with...
SciShow Kids
What Do You Hear in a Seashell?
Have you ever put a seashell up to your ear and heard a roaring sound the sounds sort of like the ocean? Is it magic? No! It's science! Jessi and Squeaks explain what's up!