SciShow
The Rare Disorder That Turns Everyone Else Into Demons
Prosopometamorphopsia is an extremely rare disorder of facial processing that makes other people's faces look demonic or seem to melt. But in the process of treating these people, we can also learn how our brain understands what a face...
MinuteEarth
Why These Bears “Waste” Food
Optimal foraging theory means that turning down food is sometimes more efficient than eating it - but even then, what’s “wasted” doesn’t necessarily go to waste.
Curated Video
Indonesia and Australia FMs discuss efforts to combat people smuggling
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr met with his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa on Monday in Jakarta, and discussed how the two countries could combat people smuggling.
Thousands of asylum seekers from various war-ravaged and...
SciShow
How the Manhattan Project Gave Us Today's Air Filters
HEPA filters are the basis of modern filtration - but they also represent a straight line from the Manhattan Project to your living room!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks...
SciShow
Why Does Music Give Us Chills?
When a musician rips into a totally sweet solo, it can give you goosebumps and send a chill down your spine, but how does that happen?
SciShow
Why Does Time Slow Down During Car Accidents?
The sensation of time slowing down during intense situations is a commonly reported phenomenon, but what's actually going on?
TED Talks
Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big...
TED Talks
Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going beyond previous augmented reality, their "auras" can do everything from making a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano
Explore the theories of human consciousness and the science of how your brain works to create a conscious experience. -- Patient P.S. suffered a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain, leaving her unaware of everything on her...
SciShow
How Auditory Illusions Trick Your Brain into Hearing Things
Your brain relies a lot on context to tell you what sounds are bouncing around in your ears, and without enough of that context it can get a little confused.
TED Talks
Anthony Veneziale: "Stumbling towards intimacy": An improvised TED Talk
In a hilarious, completely improvised talk, improv master Anthony Veneziale takes to the TED stage for a truly one-of-a-kind performance. Armed with an audience-suggested topic ("stumbling towards intimacy") and a deck of slides he's...
Curated Video
The Fascinating Complexity of the Human Brain
In this video, we learn about the incredible complexity of the human brain, which consists of approximately 170 billion cells, including 86 billion neurons. These neurons communicate through synchronized impulses, creating brain waves...
Curated Video
Exploring Deja Vu: Unraveling the Mystery of the Familiar
In this video, we delve into the intriguing phenomenon of deja vu - that eerie feeling of experiencing something already seen or lived before. Exploring various theories such as dual processing, divided attention, and the hologram...
Curated Video
What is the Blockchain?
Blockchain is a technology for recording transactions. And, since its first use in 2008 for cryptocurrency, it is emerging as one of the must-have technologies in many industry sectors. Project managers will often be called upon to...
Curated Video
Java Multithreading and Parallel Programming Masterclass - Why We Should Reuse Threads
This video explains why you should reuse threads.
Curated Video
Java Multithreading and Parallel Programming Masterclass - [Project] - Simulating a MapReduce Job with Threads - Part 1
This is the first of the two-part project-based video on simulating a MapReduce job with threads.
Curated Video
Java Multithreading and Parallel Programming Masterclass - Project - Parallel Text File Processing
This is a project-based video on parallel text file processing.
Curated Video
Receiver
A device that combines a detector and some kind of signal processing electronics to convert an electromagnetic signal into an electrical signal, or into a comprehensible sound or visual form. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific...
Curated Video
What is land used for?
Discover the various ways in which land is used all across the world. People and places -Human geography - Using the land Learning Points Land that is used for housing is known as residential land. Industrial land is used for...
Curated Video
Living Green - Episode 170 - National Park
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park in Africa covers an area about 35,000 square kilometres in total. Environmentalists have applauded the park, which combines South Africa's Kruger national park, Mozambique's Limpopo park and...
Curated Video
Concurrent and Parallel Programming in Python - Multiprocessing Queues
Now that we have understood multiprocessing, you will learn how to split our segments over multiple processes in the form of queues to speed up processing and take a load off the process execution.
Curated Video
JavaScript Mastery from Zero to Hero - Prepare for Coding Interviews - What Are Datatypes in Programming
In this video, you will learn about data types in programming, which are used to define the type of data that a variable can hold, such as numbers, strings, and Boolean values. You will also discover the importance of understanding data...
Curated Video
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) - Kinesis Data Analytics
You have created a way to get the data with Kinesis Data Streams or Kinesis Firehose, now you must analyze the data. One possible solution is Kinesis Data Analytics, covered in this video.