How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyMental HealthSelf... You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion.
The Best Way To Apologize
YouthHow-toHumanRelationshipsSelf... Explore what to do— and not to do— in order to deliver an authentic apology and make amends in a variety of situations.
Pet Shop Breakout Sparks Chameleon Invasion
AdultsHumanLifeNatureAnimalsEnvironment... When dozens of Jackson chameleons escaped a Hawaiian pet shop in 1972, they started to wreck havoc on the local ecosystem.
Why do you want to squeeze cute things?
AdultsHumanPsychologyScience Explore the psychology of the phenomenon known as cute aggression, which is the urge to squeeze, bite or pinch something cute.
The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
AdultsEducationFoodHumanHistory... If you can’t imagine life without chocolate, you’re lucky you weren’t born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica.
What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
AdultsHistoryHumanSelfWritingArt... What exactly makes a poem … a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable characteristics of most poetry.
The Future of Public Health: Crash Course Public Health #10
AdultsHealthHistoryHumanEducationFuture... We don’t know what the next big scientific breakthrough is going to be or what futuristic diseases we’ll encounter. But when it comes to our health, we actually have a pretty good idea of what could be next.
Food Myths: Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? | WIRED
AdultsHealthHumanLifeFoodScience... Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look.
Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… EXPLAINED!
AdultsEducationHow-toHumanScienceHistory... ome people try to attack things like evolution by natural selection and man-made climate change by saying “Oh, that’s just a THEORY!”
Witchcraft: Crash Course European History #10
AdultsHistoryHumanLifeCulture... During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the European world into turmoil.
You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants | Shankar Vedantam | TED
AdultsEducationHumanPsychologySelf... "You are constantly becoming a new person," says journalist Shankar Vendantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the "illusion of continuity" -- the belief that our future selves will share the same views, perspectives and hopes as our current selves -- and shows how we can more proactively craft the people we are to become.
Stress is Bad for Your Health: Crash Course Public Health #5
AdultsHealthHumanLifeEducationScience... Our identities, societies, and health are all mixed together in cool, weird, and often deeply unfair ways. One of the big factors that comes out of that mix is stress.
Becoming An Artist: Petrit Halilaj
YouthArtHumanCreativity Meet Petrit Halilaj, the artist who makes colourful worlds all about imagination, his childhood memories and his dreams for the future.
History Of Bethany Hamilton
KidsHumanWomenSportsHealth... Learn about Bethan Hamilton, the young surfer, who after surviving a shark attack went on to win surfing championships and inspire others worldwide.
Which Healthcare System is Best?
AdultsHealthHistoryHumanPolitics... Are you ready for the understatement of the century? Health care is complicated. Across the 200 or so countries on Earth, there are a lot of different ways people receive health care.