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TED Talks
Johan Rockström: Let the environment guide our development
Human growth has strained the earth's resources, but as Johan Rockström reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in...
SciShow
What You Don't Know About The Rosetta Stone
We've all heard of the Rosetta Stone, either the language-learning software or the stone itself. But how much do you really know about it? Let's get into the full history of this icon of ancient Egypt, what we learned from...
TED Talks
Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.
World Science Festival
Rewiring the Brain: The Promise and Peril of Neuroplasticity
#briangreene #JohnKrakauer #TakaoHensch #BrettWingeier Human enhancement has long been depicted as having the potential to help but also harm humanity. Brian Greene talks with Neuroscientists Takao Hensch, John Krakauer and Entrepreneur...
Seeker
Could This Be NASA’s Last Launch With Russia? | Countdown To Launch
Heading to space is an enormous feat, one that the Soyuz rockets have been aided the U.S. with for the last 7 years. But with commercial spaceflight underway, this might be the last time the U.S. launches from Russian rocket. Do SpaceX’s...
Kids Academy
What is Energy? | Types of Energy: Light, Heat, Water, Electrical and Wind
What is Energy? | Types of Energy: Light, Heat, Water, Electrical and Wind It’s time for some science for kids. Our lesson today is what is energy? You need to explain this to your kid in as simple words as possible. Let me help you out...
NASA
Operation IceBridge: What (and Who) it Takes to Keep a Mission Flying
This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with mapping the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the...
MinuteEarth
The Great North American Locust Plague
The largest locust swarm recorded in North America measured 110 miles wide and 1,800 miles long, making it roughly twice the size of Colorado. A video begins with what locusts are and where they came from then explains the damage they...
Khan Academy
Ape Clarification
A short video to clarify that the sketch in a previous video was incorrect. Apes DO NOT have tails.
Khan Academy
Radius of Observable Universe (Correction), Cosmology and Astronomy
A two-minute video corrects a slight error in the previous Khan Academy video about the observable universe. Sal points out that 300,000 years does not significantly impact the number 13.7 billion, or the estimated time of the Big Bang.
Khan Academy
Intergalactic Scale, Scale of the Universe, Cosmology and Astronomy
Sal narrates the last video, concentrating on the scale between stars and galaxies themselves.