The Guardian
Growing Up in Queens in the 70s and 80s
Corey Pegues grew up in Jamaica, Queens in the 1970s and 80s. As a young teenager, he and his friends split their time between the basketball court and the streets. At a young age, they began selling crack without understanding the...
The Guardian
After 50 Years Away, a Visit to Jamaica
As part of the Windrush generation, Paulette Wilson was sent to England from Jamaica in the 1960s and grew up with her grandparents. Now, more than 50 years later, returns to Jamaica for a visit. She shares her excitement and anxiety as...
Curated Video
Can You Tell If These AI Products Are Real?
More AI-based consumer products are being released every day, and some of them are pretty unbelievable. But can you tell the difference between a real AI product and a fake one?
Curated Video
Exploring Setting
Exploring Setting explores the concept of setting in a literary work by identifying the setting and explaining the effect(s) the setting has on the main character.
Curated Video
Mathematical Musings
Famed scientist and writer Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, muses on Mathematical Platonism, choosing the analogy of Daniel Hillis' Songs of Eden to speculate that mathematics might have played a similar role for science that...
Curated Video
Knowing Through Physics
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, shares with us his favourite puzzle of how thinking like a mathematician can be contrasted with thinking like a physicist, demonstrating that in certain circumstances, more...
Curated Video
Galileo's Gift
Nobel Laureate David Politzer describes Galileo’s vital lesson of obtaining knowledge by working with related similar but knowingly inappropriate models that can point towards a deeper understanding.
Curated Video
Lost in a Mall
UC Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus describes how her experience in the trial of George Franklin, who was accused of a crime based upon the outcome of so-called “repressed memory therapy” led her to her own research on implanting...
Curated Video
Planting False Memories
Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) describes how she developed the idea of deliberately planting false memories in subjects.
Curated Video
Origins of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes the background of social unrest in 1971 that set the stage for the development of his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment.
Curated Video
Making a Difference
Former Harvard and Stanford psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes his excitement at becoming Founding Dean of Minerva Schools.
Curated Video
Culture and Community
Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht describes her view that “the feeling of meaning is sufficient to the definition of meaning” and how we often need to consciously allow our culture and community to help provide meaning for us.
Curated Video
A Brief History of ADHD
Psychologist Stephen Hinshaw (UC Berkeley) traces our understanding of ADHD from the great influenza epidemic of the early 20th century to the present day.
Curated Video
Drawing from Life
This video will demonstrate how to draw from real life to achieve more realistic drawings.
Curated Video
What Is Narrative Writing?
“What Is Narrative Writing?” describes the genre of narrative writing.
Australian Children's Television Foundation
Where to Find the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat
Season 3, Hairy Nosed Wombat part 1 Kamil sends Kayne on a mission to find a northern hairy nosed wombat, one of the rarest mammals on earth. Join them as they go on a late night wombat stakeout with an animal expert. Bushwhacked! is a...
The Guardian
Comradery, Compassion, Discipline: Why Some Britons Joined the Kurdish Resistance
The parents of a few Britons killed while fighting for the Kurdish resistance agains ISIS talk about their children; who they were and what may have motivated them to join the resistance. A few parents were shocked, a few were not, and...
Zach Star
Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence
Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence
Zach Star
The intuition and implications of the complex derivative
The intuition and implications of the complex derivative
Neuro Transmissions
This is what COVID does to your brain.
We’ve learned a lot about COVID’s effects on the brain over the past two years. And frankly, it’s not pretty. Brain fog, “long COVID”, sudden death, all resulting from neurological damage done by this awful virus. Despite quarantines,...
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...
Neuro Transmissions
I gave fake personality tests, and people believed it.
You seem like the kind of person who would watch this video. ...or are you? Don't believe everything people say about you. With the recent popularity of astrology, disinformation, and pseudoscience, you may be at risk of falling victim...
Neuro Transmissions
Your therapist should play D&D with you. Here's why.
It might sound strange to hear about playing Dungeons & Dragons in therapy, but tabletop RPGs like DnD actually have some real healing power. By the end of this video, you'll have an even greater appreciation for this collaborative game....