The video describes the basic concepts of game theory and uses the example of the prisoner's dilemma game to explain the Nash equilibrium. The video also discusses the use of the payoff matrix as a tool for analyzing outcomes within a...

On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black...

The Importance of Theory

God does not play dice with the universe' Einstein famously argued. Yet contemporary physics embeds just such dice playing at the core of its account. Is the universe really unknowable even to itself? Or as Einstein implied is this...

David E. Kirkland is a transdisciplinary scholar of language, literacy, and urban education, who explores through the construct of literacy the intersections among language, race, gender, and urban youth culture. His work has also...

Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem.

This video reviews the topics covered in the Evidence of Change series. In this series, we explore the theory of natural selection and the evidence that supports the theory of evolution. We discuss the components of natural selection,...

Well be looking at Bells Theorem and what it actually says about whether Quantum Mechanics is true.

Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management Theory is a motivational theory which looks at output and productivity purely from a Management perspective. It explains Taylor's perspective on efficiency and productivity. This video continues...

Explanation of Hierarchy of Effects Theory

This video discusses the concept of market competition and how it affects outcomes like prices, efficiency, and outputs. The video then introduces two important forms of market competition: perfect competition and monopoly. The speaker...

The EPR paradox tries to prove that quantum mechanics is wrong.

Professor Steven Durlauf discusses a transition from the conventional policy of “redistributing income” to “redistributing membership”, thus promoting economic integration across communities and intergenerational mobility. Integrating...

"The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection



Where did humans, and all the other living things on our planet come from? This problem puzzled humans for centuries, and there have been many different theories through...

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she...