Curated Video
Let's Learn Blending Long E: EA, EE, EY
This video teaches how to blend long E words with the EA, EE, and EY sounds. It teaches vowel teams and which sounds are in the middle of words and which is at the end of words. Practice blending sounds is an important step in learning...
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Let's Learn About Verbs
This video teaches what a verb is and helps kids identify verbs as a grammar skill.
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Making Connections
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose (Oxford) reveals how his popular science books have enabled contact with both laypeople and specialists.
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Evolutionary Evidence
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker invokes a series of related evolutionary arguments to support his point that sleep must serve our most basic biological functions and is key to our survival.
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In Freud's Shadow
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker describes how the attitudes towards sleep science have evolved over the years, and how the impact of Sigmund Freud still strongly lingers.
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Sleep Attitudes
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker, UC Berkeley, describes how, while medicine and biology now firmly recognize the essential importance of sleep, most of the rest of us are still unaware, describing public attitudes towards sleep as akin to...
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Narcolepsy (2017)
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker describes our current understanding of the biophysiological mechanisms at play in the condition of narcolepsy.
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Memory Pinball
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker describes how current research on the function of sleep supports the age-old notion that it is a good idea to sleep on a problem.
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Sleep Sociology
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker ruminates on the sociology of sleep science within the broader domain of psychology, both past and present.
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From Boredom to Evil?
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how a prime situational catalyst for dangerously abusive behavior is boredom of those in power positions.
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Encouraging Medication
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, highlights the challenges of getting mental health patients to take their medication, and the importance of gently encouraging them to do so.
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Natural and Unnatural Sleep
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker distinguishes between pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to inducing sleep.
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Sleep, Memory, and Aging
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley) relates that sleep is one of the few factors that is within our control as we try to fight off cognitive decline due to aging.
Australian Children's Television Foundation
How to Feed a Baby Kookaburra
Season 3, Hairy Nosed Wombat part 4 While the hairy nosed wombats are napping, Kayne and Kamil pass the time learning how and what to feed baby kookaburras. These birds are especially young so they have to be careful not to imprint on...
Australian Children's Television Foundation
How to Take a Tissue Sample From a Flatback Turtle
Season 3, Croc Island Rangers part 5 Kayne assist island researchers as they capture and tag a flat back turtle in order to collect DNA samples. The DNA will be used to determine if the turtles nesting on the beach are the same ones that...
The Guardian
Friendship Between a Guard and Detainee at Guantánamo Bay Prison
Mohamedou Ould Salahi and Steven Wood began their friendship with Mohamedou was a prisoner and Steven was a guard at the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. How does a friendship function and grow when one friend has the keys to the other's...
R Programming 101
ANOVA using R programming.
If you want to perform an analysis of variance (or ANOVA) using R programming, then this video is for you. Its a quick guide to doing the analysis using base R and using the Tidyverse packages. If you're wanting to do statistical...
R Programming 101
Lollipop Graph using ggplot.
If you're interested in Data Visualization then you've come to the right place. Ggplot (or ggplot2) is an extremely powerful package used in R programming to develop plots and graphs. A lollipop graph is an excellent example of how you...
R Programming 101
Group by and Summarise functions in R programming - use the tidyverse package to wrangle your data
If you are learning to work with data then being able to structure, manipulate and summarize your data is extremely important. This forms part of what we call descriptive statistics. the group_by() and summarise() functions are part of...
Neuro Transmissions
Why gratitude is good for you (seriously)
Gratitude may sound like a woo-woo concept, but science shows it might be a key to happiness. Gratitude is not just for the good times. I know it’s hard to feel grateful in 2020, but now is when we need it most. Believe it or not,...
Neuro Transmissions
The dubious claims of brain training (and what actually works)
Brain training has gotten a bad rep for saying they prevent Alzheimer’s disease or boost you to 200 IQ. But does that mean you should uninstall all your apps? Well, turns out that not all brain training is created equal. Find out what...
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Test Taking Strategies: Grades K-5 (Superhero Theme)
Join Super Taylor, your neighborhood superhero, as she helps you become a more confident test taker. 1. Get plenty of sleep. 2. Eat breakfast. 3. Show your work. 4. Slash the trash. 5. Take a Break
Schooling Online
Tennessee Williams A Steetcar Named Desire - Scenes 9-11 Summary
Stanley has finally unmasked Blanche for the liar she is. Mitch also confronts Blanche about her secrets – will she own up to any of it? It all leads to a final showdown between Blanche and Stanley. Will Blanche be able to rise from the...
Schooling Online
Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Theme of Identity
Coraline thinks she’s got her 11-year-old identity sorted out. She’s an explorer who loves challenges and detests fancy recipes! Simple, right? But when she meets her horrifying ‘Other Mother’, Coraline discovers some surprising things...