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How to Change Someone's Mind
You really do need to bring all of your influencing and persuasion skills to bear if you want to change someone’s mind. So, in this video, I’ll share my top ten tips.
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Cognitive Reappraisal: How to Control Negative Thoughts
Wouldn’t it be great if you could replace negative thoughts with alternatives that are both positive and true? Well, this is called Cognitive Reappraisal, and there are techniques to help you. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this...
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What are NLP Perceptual Positions? Putting Yourself in Another Person's Place
We sometimes use the phrase, ‘putting yourself in someone else’s shoes’. Well, NLP has a helpful technique that helps you do just that… and more. It’s called Perceptual Positions.
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Exploring Ancient Roman Theatre: Pompeii's Virtual Reality Perspective
In this video, researchers from Warwick University explore the ancient Romans' passion for theatre and their use of perspective paintings as a form of virtual reality. By applying state-of-the-art computer modeling to Pompeii wall...
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How to Use ChatGPT and Generative AI to Help Create Content - Generating Text Content with ChatGPT
In this video, you will learn how to use ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model, to generate high-quality text content, including articles, blog posts, and more. This clip is from the chapter "Introduction to Generative AI" of the...
Professor Dave Explains
Empiricism Part 2: Locke, Hume, and Voltaire
We've learned about the early figures in the empiricist movement, so let's continue along the timeline to examine John Locke, David Hume, and Voltaire, among other key figures in the late 17th century. Empiricism helped set the tone for...
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As the World Turns
Dr. Forrester identifies what causes day and night by discussing the Earth’s rotation. She investigates the Earth’s movement of rotation by conducting an experiment illustrating how it rotates on its axis using a flashlight.
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What is the Temperature of an AI?
One of the most important parameters of AI models like the one behind ChatGPT is temperature, but how can AI have a temperature and what is it good for? While we pursue this question we uncover a beautiful connection between machine...
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Empiricism Part 1: Da Vinci, Bacon, and Hobbes
With rationalism covered, let's investigate the other important movement in early modern philosophy, empiricism. In its earliest formulation, this included figures like Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, and contrary to rationalism, which...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Introduction to UE5 Viewport
In this video, you will become familiar with the powerful UE5 viewport and its navigation tools. Learn how to efficiently navigate, manipulate, and transform objects within your 3D environment, enabling you to work effectively in Unreal...
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Reading an Autobiography
This video discusses the components of an autobiography and how to critically read works in the genre.
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Late Medieval Philosophy: Abelard, Avicenna, Aquinas, et al.
We've covered early medieval philosophy, so let's move forward to the later part of this era, which is called the Scholastic period. This is marked by a strong Aristotelian influence, as well as the rise of universities as we know them...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people.
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Four Subtle Ways You Can Show Lack Of Empathy
Empathy is key in relationships. It allows us to connect with others and understand their feelings. In this video, I share four subtle ways you can show a lack of empathy without realizing it. By being aware of these behaviors, you can...
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2018 - 5 Takeaways from Lindsay's Egypt Adventure
Lindsay is back from her adventure in Egypt. Get five key takeaways that you can apply to your next trip abroad!
The Business Professor
Stakeholder Analysis
What is Stakeholder Analysis? Stakeholder analysis in conflict resolution, business administration, environmental health sciences decision making,[1] industrial ecology, public administration, and project management is the process of...
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Six Hats Approach
What is the Six Hats Appraoch? "Six Thinking Hats" is a way of investigating an issue from a variety of perspectives, but in a clear, conflict-free way. It can be used by individuals or groups to move outside habitual ways of thinking,...
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The Benefits of Hardship
Historian Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses how he experienced more culture shock on returning to the USA from China than in going to China.
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Walking in Another's Shoes
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes the importance of looking at matters from others points of view, even if we strongly disagree with the eventual outcome.
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Cultural Conversion
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses Chinese perceptions of America.
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The Clubhouse: Characters
The Clubhouse: Characters discusses the characters in a fictional story and explains both main and minor characters.
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Now and Then
University of Oxford historian Sir John Elliott describes why the search for historical objectivity implies that it is important for all historians to have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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Questioning Motivations
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, just as a skillful novelist sheds light on the motivations of her protagonists, a questioning of the motivations of those in central positions of authority will help us better...
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An Outsider’s Perspective
Harvard historian David Armitage describes how his personal experiences of being an outsider affected his scholarly research.