Luke Hamlet continues his informative discussion regarding his Long Island surf shop. He invites us to visit him, if we’re ever in his “neck of the woods.”

We all know that whales are endangered due to hunting and pollution, but do you know how important they are for the ocean and the environment? This video shows how essential a healthy population of whales is to the ocean ecosystem. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Video was not modified. Please visit sustainablehuman.org for credits and more information.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains the process.

Two swimsuit models discuss the ins and outs of trading off their good looks and their probably unrealistic plans for the future after their assets have gone pear-shaped.

We can use nouns, verbs, or adjectives to describe someone's personality. Sigrid shows us how to describe someone with a strong personality.

Tara’s Recipes: Tara de la Motte takes us in inside her kitchen and shows us how to make a delicious dish of chilli king prawns and couscous. Enjoy!

Watch Tara de la Motte make an amazingly simple and delicious fruit salad!

Tara de la Motte's Florida Salad is not just an ordinary salad. With bright colors and a variety of fruits and vegetables it brings Florida’s tropical beauty right into your home!

Triple-platinum singer/songwriter Taylor Swift threw a party for friends and media Monday night and the theme was the Prom. She was wonderful, as usual, and just a joy to watch her enthusiasm. A video by Jimmy Carter.

Do you care about the environment? If so, take a peek at the clip and learn from two children as they teach us what it means to be ‘green’. Taken from Little Pickle Press writer Rana DiOrio’s book What Does is Mean to be ‘Green’?, this clip gives us practical tips for helping preserve our beautiful planet and its scarce natural resources. Enjoy!

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past.

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.

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.

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.