In episode 55 of Supreme Court Briefs, an undercover detective stops and frisks three men who were acting "suspiciously" outside of a jewelry store. Was that an invasion of their Fourth Amendment rights?

In episode 5 of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat looks at that one time the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether tomatoes were fruits or vegetables. No joke. For the record, Mr. Beat hates tomatoes. John Nix was one of the most...

Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes a modern criminal defense that relies upon neuroscientific evidence.

Philosopher of science James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, demonstrates a compelling “picture proof” of a basic result of number theory that appears to give us equal certainty to the standard mathematical proof by induction.

This video discusses the use of dramatic dialogue in a literary piece by analyzing it for a claim, soundness of reasoning, and relevancy.

This video explains the formation of the universe as described by the Big Bang theory.

Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes an unexpected area where neuroscience is having an impact in legal proceedings.

Most students write simple linear notes. But there is a way to improve the quality of note-taking that makes it more active, inquiring and revision-friendly, without radically changing how you take notes. It's called the Cornell Method...

Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany examines how a combination of an awareness of neuroscience and a philosophical outlook can help deepen our understanding of the celebrated Fifth Amendment to the American Constitution.

Harvard University historian David Armitage discusses the question of how the past can be used to shape today’s policy, describing how policymakers should not only try to avoid making the same mistakes, but also consider worthy roads not...

Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.

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Persuasive Writing explains the concept of persuasive by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of persuasive text.

There's been a lot of hype about AI-based emotion recognition. How much is reality?

University of Pennsylvania physicist Justin Khoury describes how, while many are convinced of the existence of dark matter rather than changing our understanding of the laws of gravity, we can’t yet be sure what the final outcome will be.

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, describes a profound puzzle that he's been wrestling with throughout his entire research career: how is it possible that the universe began in a peculiar state of both minimum and...

Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis describes how the tools around us physically affect our brain biology and influence how we think.

Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis describes why he believes that our brains are analogous to the internet, with main processing servers spread out in different regions.

Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes how the genetic commonalities between humans, bonobos and chimpanzees cast suspicions on the long-held claim of anthropologists that humans are an extremely aggressive species...

Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study) describes the intriguing relationship between galaxies and the enormous black holes at their cores.

Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, discusses the so-called "Fermi Paradox" about extraterrestrial life developed by famous physicist Enrico Fermi.

Psychologist Ellen Bialystok (York) discusses the effect that being bilingual has on the brain.

Nobel Laureate in Physics Roger Penrose (Oxford) relates his longstanding bemusement at why the early universe was in such a peculiar low state of entropy.

Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how our understanding of black holes has evolved from a time when Einstein didn't actually believe they existed to our present view that so-called "supermassive"...