Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
We learn more about how water interacts with the minerals in the rocks, and visit Monument Valley, a popular spot for filming westerns and commercials.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Geysers represent a very popular tourist attraction in Yellowstone Park. How do they work and where do they come from? And what is sandstone? The video answers these questions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
In Yellowstone Park, visitors can see many indigenous animals in their natural habitat and wonder at the park's natural hot springs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia, Canada, USA
While it took Destin eight months to learn how to ride a backwards bike, his young son learned how in two weeks. The son's reward was a trip to Australia, where he got to meet Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Difficulty: Intermediate
India, Pakistan, United Kingdom
Who knows when we'll discover whether we are alone in the universe or not? Whatever the answer, the quest for more knowledge will never cease, nor grow dull.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA South
Destin Sandlin, an Alabama engineer and YouTube star, shows us how very difficult it is to learn to ride a backwards bike. You think it's going to be a piece of cake, but it's not!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Judging by the 26 billion views on over 2 million YouTube videos of them, one thing is certain: cats are very entertaining. But their strange feline behaviors, both amusing and baffling, leave many of us asking: Why do cats do that? Tony Buffington explains the evolutionary history behind some of your cat’s strangest behaviors.
Difficulty: Intermediate
India, Pakistan, United Kingdom
Physicists, philosophers, and UFO enthusiasts all have ideas on how many universes there may be or if there is extraterrestrial life. Chris Anderson summarizes the theories and expects that in the coming years physicists will arrive at more answers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Pakistan, United Kingdom
In the first of a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Douglas Adams was a writer and author best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Sadly, he died of a massive heart attack in 2001 at the young age of 49. Each year, fans of his work celebrate the 25th of May (or “Towel Day”) as a tribute to the author.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
With help from Fuse School, learn the basics about global warming, particularly how burning fossil fuels adds extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and how this then leads to climate change.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Fuse School: To better understand the science behind global warming, it is important to first understand how the Earth's atmosphere functions. This informative video shows the role of gravity and how the electromagnetic spectrum is involved.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
You've made it to the final round of a game show, and get to pick between 3 doors, one of which has a car behind it! You make your choice, and then the host decides to show you one of the wrong answers. He then offers you the opportunity to change your choice. Should you do it? Find out just how wrong human intuition can be in this classic Monty Hall Problem.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
On stage at Cannes Lions, game designer and author Jane McGonigal showcased research demonstrating the power that gaming can have in the real world.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Rosetta revisits the exciting scientific discoveries she has made during her time at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, including the successful search to find Philae. Now it's time to start preparing to descend to the comet for the end of her extraordinary mission.
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