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Pet names in Spanish (Día 39)
In this video lesson we talk about some different pet names you can use with your special someone!
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Determining the Best Method
Quadratic equations can be solved using various methods: factoring, completing the square, the quadratic formula, or taking square roots. Sometimes one method is a better option than the others, because it’s a little easier to use.
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Logarithmic Properties
This video discusses logarithmic functions. It will show how to change the bases of logarithms and explain the properties of logarithms.
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National Landmarks
National Landmarks explores significance of national landmarks in representing the identity and principles of the United States by discussing the history and importance of the Statue of Liberty, the White House, Mount Rushmore, and the...
Tom Nicholas
Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
Tom Nicholas
Postcolonialism - WTF? An Intro to Postcolonial Theory
In this month's episode of What the Theory?, we're diving into postcolonialism with an intro to postcolonial theory in literature, film and culture. We'll be looking at the ideas of Edward Said (as laid out in his book Orientalism),...
Tom Nicholas
Hegemony - WTF? Introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony
In this introduction to Gramsci and his neomarxist theory of hegemony, in particular cultural hegemony, I explore this concept which has been hugely influential in contemporary social theory, political theory and cultural theory....
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Sedimented Meanings
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) describes the importance of trying to unpack the various layers of meanings that have accrued to words and concepts over the course of history.
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Suddenly Painful
Duke University neuroscientist Jennifer Groh candidly discusses our current understanding about so-called “phantom limb pain”, revealing that there are some significant features of contemporary models that are incomplete.
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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.
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Combining Like Terms
A video entitled “Combining Like Terms” which demonstrates how to simplify algebraic expressions by combining like terms.
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Congressional Whip
A Congressional Whip works with the party’s leadership in Congress to make sure everyone follows the agenda and votes together. They’re the muscle – the enforcer in a smart suit.
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Vice President
When you think of American tough guys, who springs to mind? Probably not the President. But two-term Commander-in-Chief Teddy Roosevelt was hard as nails.
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America's Manliest President | The Life & Times of Theodore Roosevelt
Footnotes: 0:16 Inspired by this image (not sure who the original illustrator is, if anyone knows please tell me!) 0:45 He called it the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History 0:58 And also maintaining a high level of fitness and growing...
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Sequences
A sequence is a set of values that makes a pattern. The differences between the arithmetic sequence, geometric sequence and Fibonacci will be discussed.
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Terms and Variables
Identify terms, constant terms, variables, coefficients, and like terms by using mathematics definitions.
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5.0 A better way to understand Differential Equations | Nonlinear Dynamics | Bendixson's Criterion
Bendixson's criterion is another method used to disprove the existence of closed orbits. A periodic solution is a type of closed orbit. This theorem only holds for simply connected regions in 2D. The statement is that if on a simply...
Zach Star
The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis
The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis
Jabzy
Was the Russian Tsar a Buddhist Goddess? | Russian Empire, Tibetan History, The Great Game
Was the Russian Tsar a Buddhist Goddess? | Russian Empire, Tibetan History, The Great Game
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Algebra 85 - Building Polynomial Functions
Because of the tremendous variety of shapes of their graphs, polynomial functions are important tools for modeling phenomena in a wide range of fields such as science, engineering, medicine and finance. But since polynomial functions are...
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Pre Algebra 23 - Scientific Notation - v.2
Scientific notation allows us to more easily express very large or very small numbers encountered in engineering and science. Using exponents, we can convert standard decimal numbers into scientific notation and vice versa.
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Algebra 94 - Rational Functions with Oblique or Curvilinear Asymptotes
In the previous lecture we saw that although a rational function may have any number of vertical asymptotes or no vertical asymptotes, rational functions will always have exactly one non-vertical asymptote. Unlike vertical asymptotes, a...
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Algebra 93 - Rational Functions and Nonvertical Asymptotes
Although a rational function may have any number of vertical asymptotes or no vertical asymptotes, rational functions will always have exactly one non-vertical asymptote. Since a function's value is undefined at a vertical asymptote, its...