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Quaternions and 3d rotation, explained interactively
An introduction to an interactive experience on why quaternions describe 3d rotations
TED Talks
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
SciShow
How to Get Things Done by NOT Doing Them | Compilation
We’ve all pulled an all-nighter studying for an exam or skipped lunch to meet a deadline, but you may be productive in all of life if you give yourself time to take breaks. And take a breath. Chapters staff burn-out 1:41 Maslach Burnout...
SciShow
Are You Really Addicted to Your Phone?
Are millennials addicted to their phones? Is that even a thing that can happen?!
TED Talks
TED: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malawi, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new...
TED Talks
Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists
Journalist Andrew Marantz spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls and social media propagandists, seeking out the people who are propelling fringe talking points into the heart of conversation online and trying to...
SciShow
The World Is Built on Sand... and We're Running Out
Some might call sand coarse, rough and irritating, but there’s no denying that it’s used everywhere: from glass to asphalt, sand is a key ingredient for all sorts of materials in construction and technology. But this heavy reliance on...
SciShow
The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
TED Talks
TED: How radical hospitality can change the lives of the formerly incarcerated | Reuben Jonathan Miller
For the nearly 20 million Americans with a felony record, punishment doesn't end after their prison sentence. Sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller sheds light on the aftershocks of mass incarceration through the stories of people who've...
SciShow
The New Era of Negative Campaigns
Negative campaigns—or campaigns that work by painting opposing candidates in a negative light—have been used for decades. But today, thanks to information that can be gained from social media, these campaigns may be even more effective...
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
MinutePhysics
How ISPs Violate the Laws of Mathematics
This joke video is about how Internet Service Providers (aka ISPs, internet companies, telecommunications companies, etc) violate the basic axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. Like the axiom of choice (sometimes Well-ordering...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Patterns - Level 7 - Causal Patterns at Varying Scale
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on causal patterns at varying scale. TERMS Patterns - regularity in the world Scale - the relative size or extent of something System - a set of components (e.g....
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Systems - Level 5 - Simulating Systems
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on simulating systems. TERMS: Simulations - imitation of a situation or process Interactions - reciprocal (two-way) action or influence Energy - the ability to cause...
TED Talks
Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers
India has the second largest population of any country in the world -- yet it has only 50 decent bookstores, says publisher Chiki Sarkar. So she asked herself: How do we get more people reading books? Find out how Sarkar is tapping into...
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
SciShow
Why Does Cold Weather Kill Your Phone?
If you live in a cold climate, you might know the agony of trying to get your car started on a chilly winter morning, or standing helplessly by as your phone's battery level plummets. So why do cold weather and batteries seem to just not...
SciShow
Why You Think Your Phone Just Buzzed
Have you ever thought you felt your phone vibrate, only to pull it out of your pocket and find that you have no new notifications? If so, you've experienced 'phantom vibration syndrome.' But what causes these mystery sensations, and are...
TED Talks
TED: Tools for a better world | Jamais Cascio
We all want to make the world better -- but how? Jamais Cascio looks at some specific tools and techniques that can make a difference. It's a fascinating talk that might just inspire you to act.
TED Talks
TED: How Airbnb designs for trust | Joe Gebbia
Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, bet his whole company on the belief that people can trust each other enough to stay in one another's homes. How did he overcome the stranger-danger bias? Through good design. Now, 123 million hosted...
TED Talks
TED: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives | Tom Gruber
How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us...
SciShow
How to Find Dark Matter with a Billion Pendulums | SciShow News
Are you there Dark Matter? It's me, a billion pendulums.
SciShow
How Fake Internet Accounts Divide Us and How to Stop Yourself From Falling for Them
The people behind fake posts can rely on a few tricks to get you on board. But there are ways to spot them, and ways to avoid falling for what they have to say.
TED Talks
Daniele Quercia: Happy maps
Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into account not only the route you want to take, but how you want to feel along...