Big Think
A short history of knowledge, from feudalism to the Internet | Alice Dreger
Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the...
World Science Festival
A WSF Introduction to Disney-Pixar’s - Inside Out
One of the main settings for Disney-Pixar’s new movie “Inside Out” is the brain—aka the “headquarters”—of 11-year-old Riley. It’s an imaginative interpretation of the inner workings of the human brain. In our “Cinema Peer Review” of the...
NASA
Water Vapor Plumes on Europa
What makes Jupiter's moon Europa so alluring is the possibility that it may possess all the ingredients necessary for life. Scientists have evidence that one of these ingredients, liquid water, is present under the icy surface and may...
Crash Course
Dark Energy, Cosmology Part 2
What's driving the expansion of the universe, and will it ever stop? Take a trip to the dark side in a video full of surprising facts and twists about our view of what lies beyond. Junior cosmologists learn about the invisible energy of...
Amoeba Sisters
Meiosis
Why do siblings often look so different from one another? Discover the process of making gametes using a short video from a large biology playlist. The narrator explains each step while animated chromatids play out the scenario that...