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Big Five Model of Personality Traits
What is the Big Five Model of Personality Traits? The Big Five personality traits are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The Big Five remain relatively stable...
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Squandering Big Data?
Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein relates how, by making false assumptions about the nature of the social world, most social scientists are running a serious risk of squandering the impressive model-building possibilities that...
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Character Traits in Drama
Character Traits in Drama explains the importance of character traits in a drama by exploring physical appearance, behavior, and interactions with others.
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Flawed Models
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) relates his concern that many agent-based models are based on a flawed assumption of what the social world actually consists of.
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On The Ground
Historian and social anthropologist Nile Green, UCLA, describes how he has been consistently struck by the distinction between the “top-down” books he was reading, and the particular human situations he was encountering on the ground.
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ChatGPT Foundations: Creating Effective Prompts
You'll learn about the essential techniques and best practices for writing prompts that elicit accurate, informative, and relevant responses from ChatGPT.
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Rigidity and Fragility
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physics' two guiding principles demonstrate both rigidity and fragility,
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Predicting the Higgs Boson
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physicists knew that the Higgs boson had to be there before any experiment.
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Inflationary Concerns #1 - Fine-tuning
Physicist and early pioneer of cosmic inflation Paul Steinhardt (Princeton) describes the fine-tuning problem associated with cosmic inflation.
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Predicting Structure
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt describes why so much of material science necessarily has a trial-and-error component to it.
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Strongly Constrained
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Instutute for Advanced Study) describes how today's theorists have much less room to manoeuvre than is often supposed.
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Quasi-Serendipity
Physicist Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, describes his sense of excitement when, shortly after he determined the diffraction pattern his theoretical new material would produce in a laboratory, someone showed him an experimental...
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The Process of Science
Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.
Professor Dave Explains
Scales of Ecology Part 2: Communities
Moving on from organisms and populations, the next tier on the scales of ecology is communities. These involve all the populations of organisms of different species that live in an area. How do they interact? How is the community...
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Energy in an Ecosystem
The video “Energy in an Ecosystem” discusses the complex relationship between organisms in an ecosystem, focusing on how small changes can have a large impact.
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R Programming for Statistics and Data Science - Variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variability
This video explains variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variability. This clip is from the chapter "Exploratory Data Analysis" of the series "R Programming for Statistics and Data Science".This section explains exploratory...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Ecology
We've learned a lot about living organisms on this channel, but now it's time to broaden our scope quite a bit. How do living organisms interact with each other and their physical environments? What is the nature of the biosphere? The...
Psychology Unlocked
Bowlby's Monotropic Theory - Attachment - Psychology Revision Tool
This video is the fifth installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Eric Beinhocker: Complexity in Economic Theory - INET Panel (1/5)
Eric Beinhocker, Senior Fellow at McKinsey and Company, is the moderator to this session on complexity in economic theory at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011. Brian Arthur, Ian Goldin, and Thomas Homer Dixon speak after...
Astrum
How big can planetary systems get?
How big do you think our solar system is? Up until Pluto? A bit beyond? How big can other solar systems get?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Pianta - Teacher-Student Interactions
Robert Pianta, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Curry School of Education, Novartis US Foundation Professor of Education, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is also Chairman of the Jefferson Education Accelerator...
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Hormone Interactions in the Menstrual Cycle
This video explains the hormone interactions involved in the menstrual cycle. It covers the four key hormones - follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), estrogen and progesterone - and their roles in preparing the...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hydrogel Scaffold Library
This is a demonstration of how to make hydrogel scaffold libraries for rapid screening of cell-material interactions in 3D. This approach will help accelerate the development of new devices for tissue engineering applications.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Strontium Atomic Clock
The world's most accurate atomic clock based on neutral atoms has been demonstrated by physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The JILA...