Healthcare Triage
Climate Change and Health: Heat, Rain, Storms, and Fires
Climate change is causing weather events that are a direct threat to human life. We’re not gonna lie, this is an anxiety-provoking topic, as is much of the conversation surrounding climate change. Increased heat, changing precipitation...
Curated Video
Experiment to Investigate Factors Affecting Human Reaction Time
The video discusses a practical biology experiment that investigates the factors affecting human reaction time. The setup involves a subject seated with their weaker arm hanging over the edge of a table while their partner holds a meter...
Science360
Fresh Water in the Arctic -- Changing Planet
Scientists are concerned that melting Arctic sea ice will increase the amount of fresh water in the Beaufort Gyre, which could spill out into the Atlantic and cause major climate shifts in North America and Western Europe. The Changing...
Curated Video
Inertia: Understanding and Calculating Inertial Mass
This video explains the concept of inertia and how it is quantified in terms of an object's mass and acceleration. The video uses examples of cars and lorries to demonstrate how larger masses require greater forces to be accelerated at...
Schooling Online
Physics Kinematics: Motion in a Straight Line - Speed and Velocity
While Mark Brent snoozes through his alarms, Lotus Lang is hot on the missile’s trail. Can she catch the culprits? This lesson will compare and contrast speed and velocity. Definitions included: speed, velocity Equations: average speed,...
The Royal Institution
Q&A - How To Build a Climate Laboratory - with Julia Slingo
Do climate models simulate physical geography and vegetation? Is aviation the sole driver of climate change? Has the absorption of CO2 by the oceans been factored into current climate models? Julia Slingo answers questions from the...
Visual Learning Systems
Forming Bonds: Introduction
Upon viewing the Forming Bonds video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms. Explain that atoms consist of many different types of subatomic particles including...
The Royal Institution
How to Build a Climate Laboratory - with Julia Slingo
Climate models have revolutionised our understanding of the world. Julia Slingo, Met Office Chief Scientist and High Level Group Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, examines the processes which control the climate system and...
TED Talks
TED: The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now | Stacy Kauk
Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which...
TED Talks
TED: The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life | Mandë Holford
Venom can kill ... or it can cure. In this fascinating talk, marine chemical biologist Mandë Holford shares her research into animal venom, from killer sea snails to platypuses and slow lorises -- and explores its potential to one day...
MinuteEarth
Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
Thanks to OIST for sponsoring this video. To learn more, visit https://admissions.oist.jp/ Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. Thanks...
TED Talks
TED: The human cost of coal mining in China | Xiaojun "Tom" Wang
Xiaojun "Tom" Wang grew up in the Chinese province of Shanxi, the world's largest coal producer. Each year, more than a billion tons of coal are dug out of Shanxi's mountains, and the impacts are devastating — from massive landslides to...
NASA
New Arctic Lakes Could Soon Be a Major Source of Atmospheric Methane
For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the result of...
Curated Video
Meet Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup Project | One Small Step | NowThis
This organization aims to clean up 90% of ocean plastic pollution by 2040. » Subscribe to NowThis Future: https://go.nowth.is/Future_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight...
Healthcare Triage
RAND and the Moral Hazard: Healthcare Triage #10
As we've explained in previous episodes, insurance is complicated. Even John gets confused (watch the video!). But there's a reason we have all these deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance. It's because of the moral hazard, and a very...
After Skool
PLAYING GOD - The Story of Synthetic Life
In 2016, the first synthetic organism of original design was created. When you hear this statement, what does it make you think of? The word synthetic does imply that something was built by man. But if you're imagining artificial...
NASA
NASA | HS3 Mission: S-HIS Instrument
Interview with Henry "Hank" Revercomb, principal investigator for the NASA HS3 Mission's Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder Instrument. He is responsible for the infrared remote sensing of temperature, water vapor, and cloud...
Cerebellum
Understanding Romeo & Juliet: The Wedding Night And Romeo's Banishment
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Romeo is banished and Juliet waits for him. This video...
TED-Ed
How Quantum Mechanics Explains Global Warming
What do quantum mechanics and global warming have to do with each other? More than you might think. Surprisingly, this video explains how it's not the energy emitted from the sun that causes the problem, but how the infrared radiation...
Fuse School
How Burning Fossil Fuels Leads to Climate Change
Do our vehicles really contribute to global warming? In part five of an eight-video series, pupils learn the mechanisms by which car emissions turn into greenhouse gases. Through animation, the class sees how the natural greenhouse...
Crash Course Kids
Weathering and Erosion
How does water help shape Earth's landforms? This is the focus of a video that describes how mechanical weathering and chemical weathering help shape Earth's geologic features.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro: Simple Experiment Illustrates Ocean Acidification in a Cup
Human activity is having an enormous impact on our natural environment, including making our oceans more acidic. This hands-on science snack, Ocean Acidification in a Cup, models the chemical process that's occurring around us and helps...