Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
More stunning footage from Alaska shows, up close and personal, the brown bears in action - hunting for salmon and caring for their young. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Observe more stunning footage from Alaska of the bald eagle and the black bear. And finally catch a first glimpse of the rare glacier bear. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In summer, mother bears and their young cubs can be spotted on the plains near Hallo Bay in Alaska's Katmai National Park.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Young black bears need to be careful when encountering the North American porcupine. Enjoy more footage from Alaska and Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, where young raccoons are also out and about.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Catch glimpses of sockeye salmon, also called red salmon, as they make their way upstream in a migration known as the "red flood." Also included is footage of dippers, which are some of the only songbirds that search for food on the bottom of a body of water.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In order to fatten up before winter sets in, brown bears feast upon salmon migrating upstream to spawn. Enjoy!.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this episode, we see how the bears coexist with other creatures in their environment, and also learn about the role of the bear in Tsimshian lore. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The salmon that make it upstream mate and then die of exhaustion. Meanwhile, many other animals are lurking and waiting to feed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this final installment of the series, a white Kermode bear encounters a black bear while fishing. Observe their behavior. Look and see for yourself what ensues!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Alex Bellos tells us about a far superior method of cutting a cake using scientific principles.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Our friends at Numberphile provide a detailed look at how the game Connect Four is won or lost.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia, United Kingdom
You might have thought that “rock, paper, scissors” was a game of sheer chance, but scientists have shown that people play with a “predictable irrationality,” and that there are strategies that can help you to win.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
"Help us to complete development of the Ocean Energy Turbine designed to replace Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy Dependence." Back this project and make the world a better place.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Allergist Jonathan Bayuk, MD, ACAAI member, discusses the importance of deep breathing and getting up and moving if you have a respiratory infection like COVID-19.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
What happened when Expedition PROTECT and American Promise arrived at Jeffrey's Ledge, a marine protected area in the Gulf of Maine? The crew tells us about what they are doing and why.
Difficulty: Advanced
United Kingdom
The Magnus effect is the commonly observed deviation of the spinning ball from a linear flight path. Watch this video to find out why this occurs and what implications it has.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
In this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi talks about how solar eclipses occur, and why they can only be seen from certain locations.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Let Sigrid tell you about the solar system that resolves around the Sun, including the order and characteristics of the planets within it. What is the closest planet to the Sun? What are the smallest and largest planets?
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
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
USA
Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart... right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of calculations when assessing a potential partner. Dawn Maslar explores how our five senses contribute to this mating game, citing some pretty wild studies along the way.
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
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
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.
Are you sure you want to delete this comment? You will not be able to recover it.