16:46
Introducing the Science Friday Educator Collaborative
Six inspiring science teachers have turned Science Friday media into innovative classroom resources.
11:37
Sorting Out the Numbers of Political Polls
What should you look for when reading a political poll?
17:36
These Black Women Helped Send Us To The Moon
Remembering the African American women mathematicians and engineers whose calculations got us into space.
7:19
Ancient Migrations, Summer Sea Ice, and Archaeological Algorithms
Homo sapiens worldwide may have descended from a single migration event out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago.
Five Back-To-School Books For Science-Loving Kids
A handful of good reads for the shark fans, budding architects, and other curious kids in your life.
17:32
How Much Math Should Everyone Know? (Show Your Work.)
Educators argue over how to shake up math education, like ditching pre-calculus and emphasizing real-world thinking.
17:29
Building Better Violins…With Science
Self-taught scientist and luthier Carleen Hutchins brought new scientific rigor to violin-making.
Sampling and Estimation With Bountiful ‘Beetles’
In this activity, explore the science and the math behind sampling. Use your data to make predictions about the most common color in a population of candy beetles.
17:24
Finding Ramanujan
Within less than a decade, an impoverished Indian clerk upended mathematics with strange and beautiful equations.
Twitter Polling and Sample Bias: A Case Study
As part of our #TakeASample Science Club, Science Friday asked its Twitter audience a few simple survey questions, and they answered by the thousands. But do the data mean anything?