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False Assumptions
Renowned violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the false assumptions that many had about what good musicians can hear.
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Tailor-made Sound
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes his work with colleagues on developing the next generation of electric violin.
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Scientific Bias
Scientific Bias evaluates the credibility of an author’s claims in a sample advertisement by identifying a potential source of bias.
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Ethics in Science
Ethics in Science assesses whether the actions of a scientist were ethical by examining scenarios and describing why each scenario was or was not ethical.
Religion for Breakfast
How I Became a Religious Studies Researcher
Inspired by Simon Clark's call for his subscribers to post "How I Became a Researcher" videos, I'm posting a short biographical sketch of my journey from a history Bachelors student to a religious studies PhD candidate. Hope you enjoy!
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How to Make an Inference from Data
In this video, the teacher guides the viewer through solving a standardized math test question that requires making an inference from data. The question involves estimating the number of people in a city who own a car based on a random...
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R Programming for Statistics and Data Science - Type I and Type II Errors
This video explains Type I and Type II errors. This clip is from the chapter "Hypothesis Testing" of the series "R Programming for Statistics and Data Science".This section explains hypothesis testing.
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Natural Experiments in Psychology
In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with the perfect opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that just couldn't be done in a laboratory. This film looks at some natural experiments in...
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Understanding Different Types of Survey Research
This video explains the different types of survey research and how to determine which type is being conducted. It covers descriptive research, which collects data at a single point in time; longitudinal studies, which examine the effects...
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Plastic waste traps hermit 560,000 crabs on remote islands
A new study led by the University of Tasmania has found that more than 560,000 hermit crabs have died from being trapped in plastic waste on the remote Cocos Keeling and Henderson Islands.
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Naturalistic Observation in Psychology
Some research questions in psychology involve seeing how people actually behave in real life situations. This is called naturalistic observation. Using psychological studies, this film illustrates different techniques of naturalistic...
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Field Experiments
This film uses a range of classic studies (Hofling, Piliavin, Fisher and Geiselman todefine and explain how and why psychologists use field experiments.
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Natural Experiments
How do natural experiments differ from Field or Laboratory experiments? Are there different types and what does this research method give to psychologists that other methods don't? This film examines these questions in the context of...
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Sampling
Sampling is crucial in psychology but it can be difficult for students new to psychology to understand. This film offers a helping hand. It begins with a series of visual images taking students through target population, sample,...
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Marie Forgeard - Does Creativity Matter
Marie Forgeard, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow at McLean Hospital’s Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program and Behavioral Health Partial Clinical Research Program. Her research focuses on understanding when and how creative thinking...
Healthcare Triage
Vaccines Don't Cause Autism: Healthcare Triage #12
There is almost no topic in health and health policy that immediately polarizes people more than the idea that vaccines cause autism. Even though the original big paper on this topic came out at the end of the last century, the anger...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lyn Ossome - Emancipation and Freedom
Lyn Ossome is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Kampala. She holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and was previously Postdoctoral Fellow at the...
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Fluorescent Foliage - Science Nation
The vascular system of a leaf provides its structure and delivers its nutrients. When you light up that vascular structure with some fluorescent dye and view it using time lapse photography, details begin to emerge that reveal nature's...
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Students exposed to polluted air on exam day receive lower grades
New research from the London School of Economics has found that students exposed to polluted air before taking their exams end up receiving lower scores.
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David Stoloff - Global Connections
Professor Stoloff studies emerging educational technologies in his teaching and scholarship, including applications of global collaborations, electronic portfolios and open educational resources in student-managed learning. He has taught...
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Microbial Life Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet
Researchers with the NSF/ARRA-funded WISSARD project report that hidden beneath a half-mile of ice in Antarctica is an unexplored part of our biosphere.
Healthcare Triage
Covid-19 and Long-term Recovery
Most of the world has been working on the assumption that when a person recovers from Covid-19, everything just goes back to normal. As the pandemic progresses though, we're learning about some patients who experience long-term...
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Marine biologist Eric Keen - ScienceLives
Marine biologist Eric Keen, who found time to produce an award-winning video while researching whales in the fjords of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, is a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC...
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Researchers fire lasers, discover ancient Amazonian villages laid out like clocks
The circular villages all had remarkably similar layouts, with elongated mounds circling a central plaza like marks on a clock.