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...

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose (Oxford) describes why he thinks Stephen Hawking was wrong to change his mind about information loss in black holes.

York University psychologist Ellen Bialystok describes the process of producing brain images using an fMRI scanner, revealing both detailed physiological structure as well as real-time functional information about how specific brain...

York University psychologist Ellen Bialystok describes her research that led her to conclude that bilingualism affects more than just our general awareness of the structure of language, but also improves our ability to multitask and...

Northeastern University social psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett describes how, contrary to what most naively believe, the brain is not a passive recipient of sensory information, but is instead actively predicting what exists.

Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study) describes the intriguing relationship between galaxies and the enormous black holes at their cores.

Renowned polymath Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) gives his take on the origin of life.

Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis explains his view that the scientific tradition that many biologists inherited from physics of trying to understand the brain by focusing on the neuron as the basic building block, isn’t actually the...

UNC Chapel Hill psychologist Barbara Fredrickson describes how she believes that the wisdom of the body is a sometimes overlooked feature in our rush towards neuroscience, and that her interest in studying positive emotions had mostly...

Pschychologist Diana Deutsch (UC San Diego) describes how she eventually managed to combine her love of music with cutting-edge psychological research.

Nobel Laureate David Politzer (Caltech) describes how physicists use perturbation theory to describe what happens at the interface of two different surfaces.

Triplets are explained, sextuplets are related to them, then how to play 2’s against 3’s. The “3 for the price of 2” is defined with examples given of triplets using different rhythmic units, as well as examples of triplets using fewer...

A video entitled “Parenthetical Punctuation” which presents ways to use marks of punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to indicate nonrestrictive elements.

Season 3, Dingoes part 3

Learn how park rangers use fencing and other techniques to keep dingos and people safe on K'gari (Fraser Island). Dingoes have attacked humans on the island before, so safety is an important part of...

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In this episode of Alexa's French language practice videos, Alexa looks at demonstrative adjectives: CE, CES, CET, CETTE

In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise identifying the tenses of ER verbs

For centuries, society has cheered on men who rack up the greatest number of “conquests” - conquests of women, that is. In some circles, sleeping with thousands of women is ostensibly a badge of accomplishment. Even several popes have...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for decades to come.

Civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden made it her mission to empower America’s working class. Her activism empowered domestic workers across the nation – and created noticeable change in the workplace for thousands of Black women.

At a time when American space exploration was dominated by men, mathematician Katherine Johnson broke through gender and racial barriers to help change our understanding of the cosmos forever.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands as a memorial to all those US service members whose remains were never identified. But not all the bodies buried there remain unidentified.

Alexa teaches you how to pronounce the "EAU" sound in French.

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