Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

How Radioactivity Makes Planets Habitable | Space News

12th - Higher Ed
The perfect balance of radioactive elements inside planets like ours might make it habitable, and researchers are challenging some ideas about how Mars is losing its water.
Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about new research into the question of how animals navigate from place to place - while the problem is still unresolved, we do have some hypotheses, and they all involve something called "magnetoreception."
Instructional Video13:07
TED Talks

How to turn a group of strangers into a team | Amy Edmondson

12th - Higher Ed
Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies ""teaming,"" where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual problems. Recalling stories of teamwork on the fly, such as the incredible rescue of...
Instructional Video10:51
Crash Course

Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye Part 1

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video9:46
Crash Course

How to Find Your Leadership Style: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills

12th - Higher Ed
How to Find Your Leadership Style Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #14
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

We Taught Birds to Sing by Altering Their Brains SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We can now implant memories into birds’ brains to teach them how to sing, and human fetuses have a couple muscles that disappeared from our adult ancestors over 200 million years ago.
Instructional Video6:46
SciShow

Supersonic Free Fall and the New Element: Hankium?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings you the news of a newly discovered dinosaur he is kind of afraid to look at, a way to sequence your genome in less time than it takes to get your clothes dry cleaned, & two new adventures that will take place in space - one...
Instructional Video11:38
Curated Video

The Persians & Greeks: Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John...
Instructional Video4:15
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the multiverse rescue mission riddle? - Daniel Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A bug in the superconductor system has trapped your team in 11 separate dimensions. Can you get them back home safely? -- It was a normal Tuesday at the superconductor, until a bug in the system caused your team to be trapped in 11...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

The Biggest Volcano and Small Testes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reviews the latest in science news, including the discovery of Element 115, the biggest volcano on Earth, and new insights into what it might mean to have small testicles.
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

A New Secret Ingredient to Making Queen Bees

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have learned more about why royal jelly makes queen bees, and we peek at the tiny and terrifying mandibles of trap-jaw ants.
Instructional Video12:22
SciShow

Will-o'-the-Wisps and 5 Other Mysteries Science Can Explain

12th - Higher Ed
The world doesn't have to be shrouded in mystery to be fascinating! Here are 6 mysteries that science has managed to solve. Chapters View all 1 THE KENTUCKY MEAT SHOWER 2:35 EASTER ISLAND HATS 3:18 EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS 5:53 4 SAILING STONES...
Instructional Video20:30
TED Talks

TED: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor | Raj Panjabi

12th - Higher Ed
Illness is universal -- but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. With the 2017 TED Prize, Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that...
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

Awesome Inventions by African Americans

12th - Higher Ed
Who invented microphones, PCs, and video game consoles? In honor of Black History Month, Hank talks about some African Americans scientist/inventors who've helped make all our lives more awesome.
Instructional Video9:14
Crash Course

The Filmmaker's Army: Crash Course Film Production

12th - Higher Ed
Who does what on a film set? And how many of them are there? What is HMU? What is a Scripty? In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily gives us A BIG OVERVIEW on the Production Team. Who they are, who they report to, and why...
Instructional Video2:38
SciShow

Life on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reports on some new discoveries: one which points towards the existence of dark matter with the "majorana particle" and another, which points towards the existence of life on Mars. Exciting stuff!
Instructional Video4:17
SciShow

New York Citys Microbiome

12th - Higher Ed
You might guess that big city subways would be filled with all sorts of nasty pathogens just waiting to infect the nearest unsuspecting human, but science doesn’t back this up at all.
Instructional Video7:19
TED Talks

TED: The mathematics of war | Sean Gourley

12th - Higher Ed
By analyzing raw data on violent incidents in the Iraq war and others, Sean Gourley and his team claim to have found a surprisingly strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of attacks.
Instructional Video15:07
TED Talks

TED: The untapped energy source that could power the planet | Jamie C. Beard

12th - Higher Ed
Deep beneath your feet is a molten ball of energy the same temperature as the surface of the sun -- an immense clean energy source that could power the world thousands of times over, says technologist and climate activist Jamie C. Beard....
News Clip5:53
PBS

Native American imagery is everywhere but understanding lags behind

12th - Higher Ed
Native imagery is embedded in the national subconscious, whether we're paying attention or not. A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian is titled simply "Americans" and shows how all aspects of life have been touched...
Instructional Video8:29
SciShow

Why an Entire Field of Psychology Is in Trouble

12th - Higher Ed
Learn why an entire field of Psychology is in trouble.
Instructional Video4:51
SciShow

How Origami Could Change Rocket Designs

12th - Higher Ed
Origami is helping to ease our journeys back from space, and astronomers are learning more about coronal mass ejections from a distant star!
Instructional Video11:07
Crash Course

How to Handle Conflict: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills

12th - Higher Ed
How to Handle Conflict Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #13
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Is There Liquid Water on Mars?

12th - Higher Ed
Mars might be full of salty liquid water! Plus, a guide to the upcoming Lyrids meteor shower.