Did Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb? I mean... kind of... but also... no. Every great, world-changing invention is the culmination of efforts by dozens or hundreds of people, spanning decades or centuries.

This video explores the invention of television and the impact it has had on society. It highlights the story of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a farm boy from Utah who had the idea to transmit images through parallel lines of light, leading...

In a poll of the 50 of the most respected scientists, only one man was on every list at or near the top - Greatest scientist of all time. The birth of physics starts: Isaac Newton had many...

Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we...

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity...

Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this...

In January 1953, a tidal surge shook the North Sea. The titanic waves flooded the Dutch coastline, killing almost 2,000 people. 54 years later, a similar storm threatened the region. But this time, they were ready. This was thanks to a...

Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces EcoRock, a clean,...

This video explains the history and development of numbers, from tally marks to the invention of zero and the creation of different types of numbers such as natural, whole, integers, rational, and irrational. It also discusses the...

In this advanced sight reading video we explore a two part invention from the perspective of how to sight read a more advanced piano piece, the level of sight reading is that required by many music exam boards for diploma exams. You...

The Gantt Chart is pretty much the poster-child for Project Management. When most people think of project management, it's a Gantt Chart they see in their mind's eye. <b<br/>r/>

So, <br/>what is a Gantt Chart?
...and who invented it?

Damon Centola is a Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group.

He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change....

The grandfather paradox is considered the biggest, most popular objection to the logical possibility of backwards time travel. It characterizes a hypothetical situation in which a time traveller goes to their past and ends up causing an...

The grandfather paradox is considered the biggest, most popular objection to the logical possibility of backwards time travel. It characterizes a hypothetical situation in which a time traveller goes to their past and ends up causing an...

On January 22, 2018, Facebook Open Source tweeted to announce the "flick," a unit of time to help sync various video frame rates and audio sampling frequencies. The media loved the story and some explained the idea. But no one explained...

One hundred sixty years after the invention of the needle and syringe, we're still using them to deliver vaccines; it's time to evolve. Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demos the Nanopatch, a one-centimeter-by-one-centimeter square...

How do we end racism? I think I have a solution, and it first begins with knowing what the actual definitions of "racism" and "race" are. 1) Acknowledge race has no genetic basis, and was a term invented by one group people to justify...

The first program you usually write when learning a new programming language is called "Hello World". The program outputs those words as its only function. When learning to program...

In this video we talk about an Arduino shield designed to teach you about shift registers, I2C, SPI, temperature sensors, real time clocks, analog to digital convertors and flash memory chips -...

Why did mathematicians invent imaginary numbers, and why have they become so important today? Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s math films show abstract concepts in...

What if the universe is self-aware? Is there a cosmic superconsciousness? Could it be a giant brain? Is the universe a conscious mind? There is a short but lazy answer, and there is longer but more...

Did you know that milk-based ice cream was first invented almost 1000 years ago in Italy? This video celebrates one of the world’s most favorite sweet treats with step-by-step drawing instructions. With a dash of creativity, your little...

Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa.

AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how...