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Modernity
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes the different experiences and associations that non-Westerners have with the notion of modernity.
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Learn Spanish! - How to use Direct objects (lo, la, los, las)
This video lesson covers the direct objects (lo, la, los, and las) that we use in Spanish instead of 'it' and 'them'. We'll have to worry about gender, plurality and placement for these though! Stay tuned to figure out how. Rate this...
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Fractions Song /Math Learning Video
Learn all about fractions with the math learning video fractions ' song. Brought to you by KLT.
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Important Parts of a Book
The video “Important Parts of a Book” identifies text features in a printed book.
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Advances in Technology and Body Repair
Advances in Technology and Body Repair describes how technological advances allow certain parts of the human body to be repaired or replaced with new devices.
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Top Brain, Bottom Brain
Psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes how he and his colleagues were motivated to apply our contemporary neuroscientific understanding detailing the different functions produced by the top of the brain and the bottom of the brain to a...
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Can We Teach AI To Talk? | #AI101
This week, we’re talking about Natural Language Processing! Stay tuned for the end of the video for a lot of bloopers :)
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Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
Can Images Classify Themselves? | Self-Organization and Neural Cellular Automata
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I Recall: Part 3
“I Recall: Part 3” discusses parts of a fable, reads “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” and answers questions about the fable.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
The student will cover dependent and independent clauses and their functions within a sentence by reviewing definitions and looking at examples.
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The Power of Suffixes
“The Power of Suffixes” describes suffixes and how they are used.
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Proofs Using CPCTC
Congruent triangles are two triangles that share the same shape and size, but their positioning may be different. If you know that two triangles are congruent, you can prove every corresponding angle and every corresponding side is...
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Many Ways to Sound /ā/
“Many Ways to Sound a” gives examples of words that make the long a sound using the vowel pairs ai and ay.
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Charges in Atoms, Atomic Models, and Quantum Numbers
This video explains how the different particles in an atom have charges, how the different particles affect the overall charges of an atom, and how atomic models are created.
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Evolving Pageantry of the British Coronation
The British coronation ceremony has evolved over time, from humble beginnings to its modern grandeur. This video highlights the changes in style, cost, and public perception of the coronation over the years and acknowledges the absence...
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Our Internal Internet
Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis describes why he believes that our brains are analogous to the internet, with main processing servers spread out in different regions.
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Forbidden Fruit
Theoretical physicist Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago, describes how a combination of an air-conditioned public library and a discouraging librarian contributed to making him the scientist he is today.
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Solar Limitations
Solar physicist Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, describes how we know that there is a basic limitation of efficiency of energy conversion of a solar cell that follows from our understanding of the panchromatic nature of the sun.
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An Exceptional Case
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes her work on studying those with so-called Williams syndrome, in an effort to rigorously examine the plasticity of the brain.
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Structural Similarities
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti describes how he developed the hypothesis that language and mathematics might be linked to a certain syntactical structure in our brains and how he went about experimentally testing the idea using fMRI...
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Exporting Repression
Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) describes how "memory repression therapy" began in the United States and was then somehow "exported" to the rest of the world.
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Mindscans
Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck describes some fascinating studies using brain-scanning technology to study mindsets and intelligence, demonstrating that we have far more control over our brains than we once thought.
Music Matters
What Can You Write Before an Augmented 6th Chord - Music Composition
Which are the most common approach chords? We consider the reasons why these chords work better than other options, examining voice leading, the smooth progression of parts, and the avoidance of parallels & false relations. This music...