PBS Digital Studios teams up with the Vlogbrothers channel Crash Course to teach you Astronomy

The Green Brothers, Hank and John are incredibly successful on YouTube and in other areas as well. Their channel Vlogbrothers has more than 2.4 million subscribers, Hank’s YouTube channel SciShow also has well over 2.3 million and, at last count their latest project “Crash Course” has over 2.6 million. If you are interested, you can…

Why it’s so very difficult to find extraterrestrial life [video]

It is fairly safe to say that somewhere out there, there is intelligent life. The odds of life occurring on any particular planet or moon are not good at all. If life does occur, the odds of that life evolving into an intelligent species aren’t very good and, even if it does, there are all…

New task force and fund created for YouTube series on sexual abuse

After a string of reported incidents of abuse between online content creators and fans recently Hank Green of SciShow, Vlogbrothers and other volunteers have put together a task force and fund to fight back. The plan is to create a YouTube show, aimed at a young audience about sex, consent, abuse, societal and cultural attitudes…

SciShow looks at the brain developments that make teens act like teens [video]

Hank Green at SciShow looks at the changes, especially the mental changes that make teenagers more likely to experiment with drugs, at a time when drugs could do the most damage – to sleep less at a time when they need sleep the most and the causes of other definitive teenage behavior. While the teens you know may…