If you think social media is powerful, keep an eye on immersive video games, says futurist Noah Raford. As more and more people are drawn into gaming and virtual worlds, the communities they forge are spawning real-world social...

What if leadership at work wasn't for a select few, but rather shared among many? Management consultant Gitte Frederiksen gives us the recipe for "distributed leadership" -- dynamic, multidimensional networks of leaders that tap into...

We know diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) boosts creativity and profits, but progress has been slow: today, nearly 90 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are white males. It's time for leaders to become "rock stars" of inclusion -- and that...

We know capitalism exacerbates injustice and inequality worldwide. So how can we fix it? Professor and social entrepreneur Manish Bhardwaj thinks we need to integrate "moral clarity" -- which he defines as "doing the right thing because...

Whose pleasure is prioritized during sex, and why? Psychosexologist Karen Gurney explains how a lack of equal pleasure in the bedroom actually reflects broader gender inequality in society -- and asks you to reconsider what dynamics are...

In this video Paul Andersen explains how energy is used in chemical processes and everyday life. Students should understand that energy is neither created or destroyed but is converted. Most of the energy is delivered to our planet...

How to think of 3x3 matrices as transforming 3d space

When you think about an eating disorder, you might imagine restricting or purging food. But the most common eating disorder has nothing to do with either of those, and chances are you’ve never heard of it.

Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TED Talk can be summarized in six words. In this talk, he shows how to do just that -- and less.

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on molecular-level structures.


TERMS
Molecular-level structures - locations of atoms in
a molecule
Function - an activity or purp
ose for a...

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on structure and function.


TERMS
Structure - parts in a mater
ial object
Function - an activity or purp
ose for a thing
Shape - extern
al form of...

An overview of what calculus is all about, with an emphasis on making it seem like something students could discover for themselves. The central example is that of rediscovering the formula for a circle's area, and how this is an...

Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.

When it comes to fighting COVID-19, scientists are throwing every bit of science we’ve got at it. A creative technique some researchers are looking into involves using gene therapy to fight this virus with… another virus!

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on complex structures.


TERMS
Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and conne
cted parts
System - a set of components...

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on scale and perspective.


TERMS
Phenomena - observable events in the natural world (require exp
lanations)
Time - an irreversible s
eries of...

An information puzzle with an interesting twist

Why do we sleep? We spend a third of our lives in slumber, but science has yet to determine exactly why we have do it. Here's a look at how sleep works, why we're not getting enough sleep, what happens if you DON'T sleep, and an idea...

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on matter and matter transport.


TERMS
Matter - physical
substances
System - a set of components (e.g. things) w
orking together
Transport - to...

in this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on INSERTTITLEHERE.


TERMS
Complex structures - structures that consist of many different and conne
cted parts
Microscopic structures - structures...

From the return of nomadic living to a climate-disrupted world, author and global strategist Parag Khanna has some predictions for humanity. Get a fascinating glimpse at the future as he tackles an urgent question: Where on Earth will...

Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself.

Reading and writing can be acts of courage that bring us closer to others and ourselves. Author Michelle Kuo shares how teaching reading skills to her students in the Mississippi Delta revealed the bridging power of the written word --...

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on thinking in scale.


TERMS
Phenomena - observable events in the natural world (require exp
lanations)
Time - an irreversible s
eries of...