SciShow
5 Ancient Structures with Amazing Acoustics
Many ancient sites had some truly amazing effects on sound waves, suggesting that early cultures may have built spaces to evoke certain sensation. And by studying the acoustics of these structures, we can learn new things about the...
Curated Video
Big Ideas - Episode 11 - Bridges of the World
Building bridges has long been a Big Idea, and many ancient examples still stand today. Recently Prague residents celebrated the 600th anniversary of the laying of the first stone of their famous Charles Bridge. The University of...
TED Talks
Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz,...
SciShow
Earth Used to Have 19-Hour Days (and Pluto Has Dunes!)
According to a new model, days on Earth used to really fly by, and today Pluto has wind-swept dunes made of very weird sand.
SciShow
5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever
Michael Aranda explains five of the worst computer viruses that have hit the net! Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the...
IT'S HISTORY
Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet I THE COLD WAR
It’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many ways. Based on a project of internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the roots of our...
Curated Video
Exploring the Cosmos: The Virtual Galaxy and Beyond
Join Professor Carlos Frank and his team from Durham University's Institute of Computational Cosmology on a mind-blowing journey through the cosmos with Cosmic Cookery. Using cutting-edge computer simulations, they have recreated a...
Curated Video
Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated...
The Cynical Historian
Hidden Figures | Based on a True Story
I know Hidden Figures was a popular movie, and has received ridiculously high praise from both audiences and critics alike, but I thought it was simply alright. Nothing outstanding, or deserving of any particular praise, just another...
The Royal Institution
Artificial Intelligence, the History and Future - with Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop discusses the progress and opportunities of artificial intelligence research. Subscribe for weekly science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe The last five years have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of excitement in the goal...
Seeker
How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk?
Advanced computer tomography scans are changing the way paleontologists are studying ancient life and “OroBOT” may be just the beginning. How Did Science Get Neanderthals So Wrong? - https://youtu.be/VAaTaZqleeY Read More: Reverse...
NASA
NASA | Computer Model Shows a Disk Galaxy's Life History
This cosmological simulation follows the development of a single disk galaxy over about 13.5 billion years, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present time. Colors indicate old stars (red), young stars (white and bright blue) and the...
Curated Video
Success stories
In this video we hear the success stories of some of the best scientists in the UK. Find out how they began their research, got funding and found great success in their various fields of research, to become world-renowned. Featuring...
Tom Scott
The World's Most Famous Teapot: The Utah Teapot
At the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, there sits a small teapot. It's the world's most famous teapot, after a computer graphics researcher called Martin Newell digitised it. You've probably seen it: here's its...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 37
Spider eyes - jumping wise, kirigami graphene, design for the blind, and coming up for landing! It's 4 Awesome Discoveries you probably didn't hear about! Kirigami inspires new method for wearable sensors...
Science360
NSF Physics Frontiers Centers Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for Evolution for ...
Thursday, July 30, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET: NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs) are pushing the frontiers of science across the disciplines of physics. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for Evolution of the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Khalil Gibran Muhammad - Big Data
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kurt Squire - Game-Based Learning
Kurt Squire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Educational Communications and Technology division of Curriculum and Instruction and a research scientist a the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sylvia Martinez - Invent to Learn Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student-centered,...
Reading Through History
Albert Sydney Johnston in Command: Army of Tennessee
Sorry, but due to serious computer errors, malfunctions, and a middle of the night Microsoft restart (long story), the only version of this video that I escaped with is in 480P. Get The Ashes of Our Fathers here:...
Big Think
Why Skepticism Is the Right Approach to the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia | Michael Shermer
Bear with us for a second, but do you know the Belinda Carlisle song "Heaven is a Place on Earth"? It's actually scientifically accurate. American public intellectual Michael Shermer says that any idea of the afterlife makes zero sense:...
Curated Video
Bringing a fossil to life: Reverse engineering locomotion
You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti. Orobates lived well before the time of the dinosaurs and...
Big Think
How a Team of Female Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of Stars
At the turn of the 19th century, male astronomers mainly studied galaxies, leaving female scientists wide latitude to research and innovate. Indeed they accomplished truly stellar work. Frebel's book is "Searching for the Oldest Stars:...
Science360
New digital media type gives drawing a third dimension
Read the full article: http://1.usa.gov/1N5Uy8R Who doesn’t want to interact with their own favorite picture book? A new software platform from Mental Canvas, a company funded by the National Science Foundation’s Small Business...