TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks | Max G. Levy
A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space. Invisibility is one of the most tantalizing powers in...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia | Susan G. Wardle
Imagine opening a bag of chips, only to find Santa Claus looking back at you. Or turning a corner to see a building smiling at you. Humans see faces in all kinds of mundane objects, but these faces aren't real— they're illusions due to a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why people fall for misinformation | Joseph Isaac
In 1901, David Hänig published research that led to what we know today as the taste map: an illustration that divides the tongue into four separate areas. It has since been published in textbooks and newspapers. There is just one...
SciShow
We’re Talking To Aliens
We’ve done a lot of searching for life in the universe and we need to continue to if we hope to make contact. But not all of our attempts were expected to succeed. That’s where Beacon in the Galaxy comes in.
Curated Video
How to Deal with Distorted Audio from Car Speakers
Howcast - Learn how to deal with distorted audio from car speakers in this Howcast car stereo video with expert Movin' On.
Curated Video
7 Basics about Digital Camera Lenses
Howcast - Learn seven basics about digital camera lenses from commercial photographer Dan Bracaglia in this photography lesson from Howcast.
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How to Use Distortion on Heavy Metal Guitar
Howcast - Let musician Alex Skolnick teach you how to use distortion on guitar in this heavy metal guitar lesson from Howcast.
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How to Do 2 Octave Sweep Picking on Heavy Metal Guitar
Howcast - Let musician Alex Skolnick teach you how to do two octave sweep picking in this heavy metal guitar lesson from Howcast.
Curated Video
Best Effects to Use with a Pedal Steel Guitar
Howcast - Learn what are the best effects to use with a pedal steel guitar in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
Demonstration Of The Bixonic’s Axentrix A1 'New-gen Distortion Pedal'
Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario calls the Axentrix A1 “an eye-catching design loaded with tons of distortion tones,” and that’s an understatement. The pedal adds in an extra selectable drive mode, for four in total: Crunch,...
Curated Video
Demonstration of the Bixonic’s Axentrix A1 “New-gen Distortion Pedal"
Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario calls the Axentrix A1 “an eye-catching design loaded with tons of distortion tones,” and that’s an understatement. The pedal adds in an extra selectable drive mode, for four in total: Crunch,...
Curated Video
PRS Transparent Overdrive, Dual Analog Flanger and Optical Compressor
“Yes, you heard that correctly,” Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario says. “Paul Reed Smith, maker of many of the finest electric and acoustic guitars and even amplifiers, have thrown their hat in the stomp box ring and released three...
The Business Professor
Marketing - What Distorts the Results of Marketing Research
This Video Explains Marketing - What Distorts the Results of Marketing Research
Curated Video
Fajan’s Rules: Predicting Ionic vs. Covalent Bonds
Fajan's rules explain how factors like ion size, charge, and polarizability determine whether a bond will be predominantly ionic or covalent
Science ABC
What Exactly is Spacetime? Explained in Ridiculously Simple Words
Spacetime, as a concept, is related to a space that consists of 4 dimensions instead of the regular 3-dimensional space. As early as 1905, Einstein proposed a now widely popular theory that the speed of light is independent of the motion...
Science ABC
Can Light Escape a Black Hole?
Light is affected by black holes because of the theory of general relativity, which states that any massive object warps the spacetime around it. Since a photon travels by the shortest distance between two points, light appears to bend...
Science ABC
Why Do We Feel The “Urge To Jump”?
The urge to jump or high place phenomenon apparently springs from a distortion of our perceptions. Lab tests have shown that people estimate disgusting things, such as feces, to be closer than they really are. Another example is...
Curated Video
Gravitational field
The field around a body of significant mass that exerts a gravitational pull on all other objects in that field. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual...
Curated Video
Topology
How objects can be deformed to make different shapes without tearing, cutting or gluing. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action...
Curated Video
NLP Filters: How we Interpret the World around us
We don’t see the world as it is. We see it as our brains interpret it. We become aware of external events through our senses. NLP Filters give a compelling model of how we interpret the world around us and the way it influences...
Curated Video
What is the NLP Meta Model? Precision Questioning and Listening
The NLP Meta Model starts with our ability recognize language patterns that people use, which give away the filters they are applying. Where these filters lead them to make an unhelpful interpretation of events , the second part of the...
Curated Video
Can Light Escape a Black Hole?
Light is affected by black holes because of the theory of general relativity, which states that any massive object warps the spacetime around it. Since a photon travels by the shortest distance between two points, light appears to bend...
Curated Video
How Trauma Changes Your Thinking
I talked in a previous video about how trauma affects how you store memories. Traumatic experiences can also affect how you perceive things and cause you to have what we call cognitive distortions. These distortions are especially...
Journey to the Microcosmos
BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope
BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope