Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...

If I was a Freshman Again, some advice

For decades, the American Dream of owning a house was denied to certain segments of the population... and we are still living with the effects today.

What does it mean to be an Intrapreneur? Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization.

Is it a movie myth or factual physics? Will a bullet hurl you into the air or throw you across a room?<br/>
Learn the science behind what happens when you're shot with a bullet and understand the physics of this widely held belief.

Join us as we explore the physics behind 'What goes up must come down!

Philosopher Scott Soames (USC), gives a brief description of contemporary attitudes towards metaphysics.

Amanda, Rahim's mother, and family friends reach out to community services, payday lenders, and any resources they can in an attempt to raise the money they will need to burry Rahim. To make matters worse, they still do not know how he...

Spanish Present Subjunctive with Recommendations & requests (R)

This video is a test! Trying out not being on the screen so I can finish this series before next summer! ;-)

Having made our way through Classical Greece, it's time to enter the subsequent Hellenistic and Roman periods. These were dominated by schools of thought that were influenced by the great classical thinkers, though they took their...

Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, relates how the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment was generally ignored for decades before John Bell pointed the way towards a key experiment to test it...

Quantum physicist Artur Ekert describes how his formative work in quantum cryptography was motivated by a desire to concretely probe philosophical ideas first formulated by Albert Einstein and later refined by John Bell.

Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) uses Alain Aspect's famous experiment of the Bell inequalities as an example of what an experiment should be.

UCL development psychologist Uta Frith describes the so-called “Sally-Anne” test or “false belief” test that she and her colleagues used to determine that autistic children generally have great difficulty in ascribing beliefs and desires...

Social psychologist Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how consciousness is not “a direct pipeline to reality” but involves the brain and the associated conscious mind mysteriously combining to somehow produce meaning...

Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) describes how Einstein's view of reality for quantum theory can be preserved in the many-worlds interpretation.

Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.

Cognitive scientist Uta Frith (UCL) describes the famous "mentalizing" experiments that exposed the psychological limits of autistic children.

As a former kindergarten teacher and school Director of Technology, Steve Dembo is a pioneer in the field of educational social networking. Currently serving as Discovery Education's Director of Social Media Strategy and Online...

Martin Ricardo Cisneros (@TheTechProfe) is a Modern Learning Advisor, speaker, GeekDad, TechJedi, SuperMariachi, and a Director of Technology, from Silicon Valley! At his current position, he provides strategic leadership in...

There’s an urban legend about the man from Taured who arrived in Tokyo airport with a stamped passport originating in a country that doesn’t exist in our reality, details in part 1. Here’s the truth: A man arrived in Tokyo Airport 1959...

After the shocking crime at the headquarters for the Association of Pickers, the catadores’ spirits are lifted by their amazing progress in the studio. But the hour of truth is approaching: how much will the portraits sell for? Vik...

Having something to dream about can really get you through tough times. Dreams give us hope. But what happens when reality gets in the way? Join us for an in-depth discussion of Dreams vs Reality in John Steinbeck’s masterpiece Of Mice...