Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael J. Sorrell Ed.D. - We Over Me: The Needs of a Community Supersede the Wants of an Individual
Dr. Michael J. Sorrell is the longest-serving President in the 151-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 16 years of leadership, Paul Quinn has become nationally celebrated for its ability to reimagine higher education to better...
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Graph of a Function and Its Derivative
The derivative function provides the slope of the original function for each value of x. The graph of the derivative can be used to gain information about the original function and can be used to create a sketch of the original function.
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Cultural Differences
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, while cultural differences clearly exist, he’s more focussed on studying the essence of what it means to be human.
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The Sociology of Mindsets
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses the effect of community values on mindsets.
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Cultural Mindsets
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck describes how, while she believes that her work on mindsets is universally relevant, understanding distinct values and practices is essential to getting the message across diverse cultures.
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The Anthropic Principle
Nobel Laureate in Physics Anthony Leggett (Illinois) describes the so-called Anthropic Principle that some invoke to answer the "fine tuning problem" of cosmology.
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The Human Condition
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister (Queensland) describes how, notwithstanding our various cultural differences, what really interests him is the investigation of factors and motivations common to all of us.
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Variance and Standard Deviation
A video entitled “Variance and Standard Deviation” which describes ways that variance and standard deviation are used as measures in the real world.
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Law of Sines and Cosines
This video will discuss examples of application of sine and cosine laws.
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Square-by-Square Illustration
This video shows the addition of color in the style of photorealist Chuck Close using oil pastels to an enlarged portrait created by the grid transfer method.
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The Pledge of Allegiance
All across the United States, its citizens regularly stand, with hands on heart, to make the Pledge of Allegiance. But what is it, what does it mean and why is it so important?
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The Secret Service
They’re the shadowy agents who keep the President safe – but what is the Secret Service and why was it formed?
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Sequences
A sequence is a set of values that makes a pattern. The differences between the arithmetic sequence, geometric sequence and Fibonacci will be discussed.
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Vectors 27
This video will define a vector and explain magnitude and direction, using example graphs.
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Best Fit
A video entitled "Best fit" which explains how to calculate measures of center and measures of variation and discusses how to determine the value that best represents a data set.
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Statistical Measures
A video entitled "Statistical Measures" which explains mean, median, mode, mean absolute deviation, range, and interquartile range.
R Programming 101
Separate and Unite - manipulate your data with R programming
If you're working with data or learning to do statistical analysis using R programming, then this is a short tutorial that will help you use and understand the seperate and unite functions as part of the tidyverse set of packages. So if...
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...
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Trigonometry and the Unit Circle
This video will explain trigonometric functions and how to use them with the unit circle.
Virtually Passed
2.0 A better way to understand Differential Equations | Nonlinear Dynamics | 2D Linear Diff Eqns
These second-order linear differential equations can be written in the form dx/dt = ax + by dy/dt = cx + dy Depending on the values of a,b,c and d, the dynamics will be very different! They can be characterized by finding the eigenvalues...
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The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces
The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces
Neuro Transmissions
The fascinating psychology behind why we're so divided right now.
It's ironic. One of the few things most of us can agree on right now is that we are highly polarized. As the U.S. presidential election reaches its conclusion, tensions are running high between political opponents. Democrats view Donald...