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Exploring Themes in The Scarlet Letter
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark novel set in Puritan Massachusetts. It explores themes of sin, guilt, and the corrupting influence of society on individuals. Through the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur...
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I WONDER - Is Rewilding Just About Plants?
This video is answering the question of is rewilding just about plants.
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Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions investigates heat-generating reactions and heat-consuming reactions by defining exothermic and endothermic.
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The Periodic Table: Atomic Number
The Periodic Table: Atomic Number examines the Periodic Table of Elements and uses the atomic number to identify the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in a given element.
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Supersymmetric Convictions
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) relates his belief that supersymmetry must exist at some energy scale.
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Scouring Museums
Once we knew that quasicrystals could be produced in a laboratory, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, set out to see if they might exist naturally, spending hours carefully examining minerals in museums in the hopes of stumbling upon...
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Scientific Stubbornness
Paul Steinhardt, University of Princeton, describes his encounter with a highly sceptical geologist, demonstrating both his tenacity as well as an intriguing scientific distinction between "impossible" and "highly unlikely".
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Predicting the Higgs Boson
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physicists knew that the Higgs boson had to be there before any experiment.
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Testing Reality
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, relates how the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment was generally ignored for decades before John Bell pointed the way towards a key experiment to test it...
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Technology as a Proxy
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer Jill Tarter describes how we use technology as a proxy for potential alien intelligence, and how our search involves looking for signals that nature doesn't make on her own.
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Conservative Radicalism vs. Radical Conservatism
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes two approaches to getting unstuck.
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A Good Experiment, Defined
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) uses Alain Aspect's famous experiment of the Bell inequalities as an example of what an experiment should be.
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Radio Intelligence
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes the details of the search for extraterrestrial life using radio waves.
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The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
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Malleability, Recognized
Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) describes how the law is beginning to explicitly recognize the malleability of memory for eyewitness testimony.
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Harnessing the Media
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, University of Stanford, highlights the critical role the media plays in communicating research insights to the general public and muses on how psychologists can best take advantage of the power of the media...
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Theory And Observation
Imperial College cosmologist Claudia de Rham reflects upon how the fields of cosmology and particle physics have developed in the last 10-15 years based on a combination of experimental and theoretical considerations.
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The Physics of Information
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, describes how the field of quantum information science breathed new life into the foundations of quantum theory, while advances in understanding the physics of information...
John D Ruddy
Stand Up For Bastards - Edmund, King Lear by William Shakespeare, performed by John D Ruddy
Monologue from Shakespeare's King Lear
Professor Dave Explains
Scales of Ecology Part 1: Organisms and Populations
The best way to start a study of ecology is to look at the scales of ecology, from the smallest things the field studies, to the biggest. On the small end, ecologists can study individual organisms, as well as populations of those...
Weird History
Man Made Foods
Weird History Food is showing you the fruits and vegetables that seem natural but are actually man-made. Nowadays, many people like to know where their fruits and veggies came from - whether that's an organic farm across the country or...
Zach Star
The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?
The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?
Neuro Transmissions
Why nature is good for your mental health
Back in the day, doctors would send patients with anxiety and depression into the mountains because the fresh air would do them good. Though they did not have the research to back it up, they knew that nature was good for our mental...
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A (Brief) History of Brain Sciences
Neuroscience and psychology have a lot in common. But where does one begin and the other end? What are the differences? And how did we end up with these two different-yet-overlapping fields? It turns out that the history of brain science...