Curated Video
Writing a Convincing Conclusion for Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of writing a conclusion for an argumentative essay. They explain the importance of restating the claim and reasons, and provide examples of how to do so in a new and...
ShortCutsTv
Criminal Profiling
An area that’s captured the public imagination from tv shows like Mindhunter and Criminal Minds is criminal profiling. But what’s the reality behind the hype? What is criminal profiling? What do profilers do? Does profiling work? In this...
NASA
Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so lacking in...
ShortCutsTv
Bowlby: Attachment and Maternal Deprivation
In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed how many of the disturbed children he saw had been separated from their parents in early life. This was John Bowlby whose work had a massive influence on how psychologists thought about child...
The Business Professor
Exception to the Statute of Frauds
This Video Explains Exception to the Statute of Frauds
Healthcare Triage
Why Won't the US Study Gun Deaths?
Guns are in the news A LOT these days. The RAND Corporation recently unveiled a huge study on guns. We're going to talk about the minuscule amounts that are spent on studying guns, and look at the evidence around regulating guns and the...
The Business Professor
Burden of Proof in a Civil Trial
This Video Explains Burden of Proof in a Civil Trial
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Video: Why the Building (WTC7) Fell
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted an extensive three-year scientific and technical investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City....
Curated Video
Supporting Your Claim with Reasons and Evidence
This video explains how to write sentences that explain evidence in argumentative writing. It emphasizes the importance of supporting claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. The video provides examples and prompts for students...
Healthcare Triage
Do Probiotics Work? It Depends on What You Want to Happen
You guys love the microbiome. You're not alone. The sales of products containing yeasts and bacteria that will colonize your gut and make you stronger and better are legion. I recently met a researcher who did actual microbiome work, and...
Financial Times
Coronavirus: the race between vaccines and new variants
Anna Gross lays out the threat new variants of the disease pose to the UK's vaccination programme. The hopes of the rest of the world could rest upon whether Britain succeeds in its target of 15m vaccinations by mid-February.
After Skool
Magnum Opus - How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Magnum opus is a latin term that is defined as someone’s greatest life achievement. It is the highest intersection of talent, skill and hard work, when someone reaches their maximum potential at the exact right time in the exact right...
IDG TECHtalk
What Windows admins need to know about computer forensics
Understand these basic elements of computer forensics before you have to review log data for suspicious activity.
Visual Learning Systems
The Evidence of Earth's Rotation
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of the Earth's rotation and its effect on day and night. They use a toy spinning top as an analogy to demonstrate how the Earth spins on its axis, causing the sun to appear to rise and set....
Espresso Media
The Influence of Gum Companies: Messages and Associations
In this video, the speaker explores how gum companies have strategically associated their products with positive experiences and personal hygiene, diverting our attention from the potential health and environmental impacts of chewing...
Visual Learning Systems
The Moving Continents
This video is about the theory of continental drift, which suggests that the present-day continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangea. The video also discusses the challenges faced by the scientist Alfred Vagner...