MinuteEarth
How Risky Are Vaccines?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword to get your googling started: herd immunity: immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a portion of a population provides protection for individuals who have...
MinutePhysics
A Youtube Phishing Attack You Need to Watch Out For
A Youtube Phishing Attack You Need to Watch Out For
SciShow
The Data Explosion | The History of the Internet, Part 3
Nearly twenty years after the dot-com bubble burst, the internet is an essential piece of the modern world, with the public side mostly commanded by a few powerful companies.
TED Talks
TED: How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell
When programmer Tiffani Ashley Bell learned that thousands of people in Detroit were facing water shutoffs because they couldn't afford to pay their bills, she decided to take action -- in the simplest, most obvious way possible. It's an...
Bozeman Science
PS3D - Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life
In this video Paul Andersen explains how energy is used in chemical processes and everyday life. Students should understand that energy is neither created or destroyed but is converted. Most of the energy is delivered to our planet from...
TED Talks
Sebastian Wernicke: 1,000 TED Talks in six words
Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TED Talk can be summarized in six words. In this talk, he shows how to do just that -- and less.
PBS
Topology Riddles | Infinite Series
Can you turn your pants inside out without taking your feet off the ground?
PBS
Is CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
Consciously or not, the first thing you notice when you visit a website is how the site LOOKS, which is controlled by the CSS Stylesheet. CSS is the fashion of the web- it makes sites pretty (or very very ugly). And as our lives migrate...
TED Talks
TED: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it | James Lyne
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank...
TED Talks
TED: A teen just trying to figure it out | Tavi Gevinson
Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models -- so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly...
TED Talks
TED: The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want | Jessica Ladd
We don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says TED Fellow Jessica Ladd. With Callisto, a new platform for college students to confidentially report sexual assault, Ladd is helping survivors get the...
TED Talks
Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree
Computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world's largest family tree -- comprising 13 million people and going back more than 500 years. He shares fascinating patterns that emerged from the work -- about our love lives, our...
TED Talks
TED: The moral bias behind your search results | Andreas ekstrom
Search engines have become our most trusted sources of information and arbiters of truth. But can we ever get an unbiased search result? Swedish author and journalist Andreas ekstrom argues that such a thing is a philosophical...
PBS
Is a DOS Attack a Weapon?
Denial of Service (DOS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks take down servers by distracting them with meaningless traffic until basically they can't take it any more. The way we talk about the result of a software program...
TED Talks
Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism
If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give? He talks through some surprising thought experiments to help you...
SciShow
Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them
A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
TED Talks
David Heymann: What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus
What happens if you get infected with the coronavirus? Who's most at risk? How can you protect yourself? Public health expert David Heymann, who led the global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003, shares the latest findings about...
TED Talks
TED: Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election? | Simon Anholt
Wish you could vote in another country's election? Simon Anholt unveils the Global Vote, an online platform that lets anybody, anywhere in the world, "vote" in the election of any country on earth (with surprising results).
TED Talks
Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that's inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine -- from toys to satellite gear. Because, as he...
TED Talks
Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"
Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions ("what if you hit a baseball moving at the speed of light?") using math, physics, logic and deadpan humor. In this charming talk, a reader's question about Google's data...
Crash Course
How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch
Today we’re going to talk about recommender systems which form the backbone of so much of the content we see online from video recommendations on YouTube and Netflix to ads we see on Facebook, Twitter, and well, everywhere else. We’ll...