Instructional Video2:57
SciShow

Why Do We Get Colds When It's Cold?

12th - Higher Ed
The temperature drops and you're more likely to get a cold: Is this correlation or causation?
Instructional Video10:09
SciShow

7 Extreme Animal Moms

12th - Higher Ed
From changing diapers to cleaning up vomit, human parents can have it tough, but at least they don't have to incubate their babies under their skin or liquify their own guts to feed their brood like these animal moms do! In honor of...
Instructional Video16:56
TED Talks

Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in ... now what?

12th - Higher Ed
Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 -- because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a...
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

French Fries Aren't Really Going To Kill You

12th - Higher Ed
If you use the internet, you may have read about a nutritional study about the deadliness of fried potatoes. It's a little more complex than that, though. Even if you haven't heard of that one, we're pretty sure you've heard of the...
Instructional Video13:00
TED Talks

Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids

12th - Higher Ed
The global fertility rate, or the number of children per woman, has halved over the last 50 years. What will having fewer babies mean for the future of humanity? In this funny, eye-opening talk, journalist (and self-described exhausted...
Instructional Video2:24
SciShow

This Fish Bulks Up When Danger is Near

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes the hairs on the back of your neck raise up when you sense that danger might be near, but what if you were also able to bulk yourself up like a muscular balloon to fend off that danger? This fish, it turns out, can do exactly...
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Eyeball Licking: Please Don't

12th - Higher Ed
So you think eye licking (also known as worming) is just a harmless bit of foreplay? Think again.
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

Female Viagra' & New Insights Into Narcolepsy

12th - Higher Ed
Recent research has offered some new insights into our biochemistry -- from a proposed drug for sexual arousal to a possible link between the flu and narcolepsy.
Instructional Video5:50
TED Talks

Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money

12th - Higher Ed
We all want to save more money -- but overall, people today are doing less and less of it. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa studies how everyday people make decisions to improve their financial well-being. What she's found can help...
Instructional Video10:43
Crash Course

How to Become a Better Negotiator: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills

12th - Higher Ed
You've prepped and now it's time to actually negotiate. In this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn talks to us about how to make sure we take care of ourselves and get what we're looking for out of a negotiation.
Instructional Video3:26
SciShow

Ice Quakes Your Brain on Pot & the Body Language of Victory

12th - Higher Ed
Hank enlightens you with the science behind the news, including the dynamics of recent "ice quakes," new insights into the neurology of marijuana, and the body language of victorious athletes. Winning!
Instructional Video9:02
TED Talks

TED: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? | Kristin Poinar

12th - Higher Ed
The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious -- and melting. Using advanced technology, scientists are revealing its secrets for the first time, and what they've found is amazing: hidden under the ice sheet is a vast aquifer that holds...
Instructional Video14:18
TED Talks

TED: A smarter, more precise way to think about public health | Sue Desmond-Hellmann

12th - Higher Ed
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped...
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

We're Turning Pulsars into Galactic GPS!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have thought for awhile that pulsars could be used as a sort of galactic positioning system, and astronomers have published the most advanced topographical map of Titan to date!
Instructional Video11:27
TED Talks

TED: A taboo-free way to talk about periods | Aditi Gupta

12th - Higher Ed
It's true: talking about menstruation makes many people uncomfortable. And that taboo has consequences: in India, three out of every 10 girls don't even know what menstruation is at the time of their first period, and restrictive customs...
Instructional Video4:16
SciShow

The Solar Eclipse of 2015!

12th - Higher Ed
This week, an update on Dawn's rendezvous with Ceres, a changing of the guard on the ISS, and a viewer's guide to this year's solar eclipse!
Instructional Video2:57
SciShow

More Higgs boson news

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings us up to date on the latest in the search for the Higgs boson and interviews Fermilab physicist Rob Roser.
Instructional Video4:31
SciShow

Destroying Space Junk With Lasers, and Two Rare Eclipses!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, astronauts had to take the scenic route to the ISS because of some space debris. And this month, you might get to see two eclipses: a solar eclipse, and a rare supermoon eclipse.
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Future Space News of 2015: Destination Ceres and Pluto!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space brings you NEWS FROM THE FUTURE, with details about the space missions to look forward to in 2015.
Instructional Video6:48
SciShow

Space News From The Future!

12th - Higher Ed
Today Hank uses his patented prognosticating abilities to tell you about some space news events to watch out for in 2013.

What one thing is the Curiosity rover going to spend most of the year doing? Why are we going back to the...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Get Ready for a New Star in the Night Sky! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers are predicting that two stars are likely to merge and explode, and it may happen soon... on a cosmic timescale. Plus, scientists break up a meteorite and find the oldest solid matter ever discovered on earth.
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in news, the Insight rover's Mole apparatus called it quits, and research reported their findings on the first ever observed intergalactic binaries.
Instructional Video5:27
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Are locust plagues unstoppable? | Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A ravenous swarm stretches as far as the eye can see. It has no leader or strategic plan; its only goals are to eat, breed, and move on. These are desert locusts— infamous for their capacity for destruction. But most of the time desert...
Instructional Video11:21
TED Talks

The case for anonymity online - Christopher "moot" Poole"

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet...