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Anthropomorphism
Jessi discusses anthropomorphism and how it can interfere with communication and your overall relationship with a non-human animal.
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A Few of My Friends: Communication
Jessi does an unscripted show and brings on a few of the animals to share. She talks about how they're communicating using body language and behavior that's typical of each species and individual.
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Diffusion of Innovations Theory
What is the Diffusion of Innovations Theory? Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett Rogers in his book Diffusion of...
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Designing a Team
What is Designing a Team? Team design is the process of organizing individuals into a cohesive coalition—one that makes a concerted effort to achieve a shared outcome. Teamwork has a lot of advantages: combined brain power, complementary...
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Deductive Reasoning
What is Deductive Reasoning? Deductive reasoning is the mental process of drawing deductive inferences. An inference is deductively valid if its conclusion follows logically from its premises, i.e. it is impossible for the premises to be...
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Culture as Organizational Communication
What is Culture as Organizational Communication?
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Acceptance Theory of Authority
What is the Acceptance Theory of Authority? Acceptance theory of authority states that a manager's authority rests on workers' acceptance of his right to give orders and to expect compliance. Workers have to believe that the manager can...
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Mental Frame
What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...
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Making Sense of ISIS
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how adopting the model of religious economy allows us to make better sense of the difference between all manner of violent and non-violent religious sects.
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Appreciating Translators
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, urges us to recognize the enormous societal value that translators provide in our daily lives.
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What Can't AI Do?
AI seems like it can do anything, but what can’t it do? Today we’re talking about the areas where AI tends to perform poorly.
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A Two-Way Street
Stanford University classicist and political scientist Josiah Ober relates how the interests of elites and the general population were intertwined in classical Athens, and how we might be able to harness some of those ancient concepts in...
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Benefits of Technology
Benefits of Technology discusses the many ways that technology increases the quality of human life with a focus on health, communication, exploration, and learning.
Tom Nicholas
Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
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Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity
Psychologist Ellen Bialystok (York) discusses the effect that being bilingual has on the brain.
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Industrialization
Industrialization investigates the effects that industrialization has on Earth and its inhabitants by analyzing the pros and cons of industrialization.
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Katherine Johnson: Trailblazing NASA Mathematician
At a time when American space exploration was dominated by men, mathematician Katherine Johnson broke through gender and racial barriers to help change our understanding of the cosmos forever.
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Edith Maude Eaton: Fostering Cultural Understanding Through Writing
In a time when Chinese immigrants in America faced discrimination in all walks of life – simply because of their race – author Edith Maude Eaton channeled the power of the pen to help make positive change.
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The Untold Unbreakable Code
Native American Code Talkers used their own indigenous dialects to bamboozle enemy code breakers and help Allied forces to win two World Wars.
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The Secrets of the Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram, a secret message from Germany to Mexico during the First World War, ended the United States’ neutrality and sealed the fate of the Central Powers.
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Who was Daniel Webster?
Lawyer, orator and politician, Daniel Webster was one of the United States’ most famous and accomplished people in the 19th century. But what made him so special and how did he help change America?
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Bringing Social Studies to Life With Social Media
Educators, discover how and why you should incorporate social media into your social studies classes. Learn how it’s an effective tool, how to safely implement it in classes and how to use social media sites to enhance curriculum and...
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History of Technical Writing
A video entitled "History of Technical Writing" which explores the history of technical writing.