Primer
Simulating Natural Selection
See how different attributes are naturally selected in different environments, and note some core principles of evolution along the way.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Allan McCullough - Using Tech to Protect
Allan is President of Canada’s non-profit Child Safety Research & Innovation Center and CEO of the video game developer Entertaining Knowledge Inc. He is also an expert in the field of child safety and street proofing of children. Allan...
Science360
Testing Ways to Protect Against Natural Hazards - NHERI
The National Science Foundation's NHERI Experimental Facilities allow researchers to test ground-breaking concepts to protect our infrastructure against natural hazards, and enable innovations that help prevent natural hazards from...
Mr. Beat
Why Do So Many People Have the Same Last Name?
Why are there so many of the same surnames? Why do some surnames go extinct? Why do we call surnames "last names?" Mr. Beat, who has a strange last name, answers these questions in this video. Oh, and Jabril helps out.
KERA
Financial Simulation of Poverty
A workshop in North Texas aims to give people who have money the experience of what it’s like for people who live in poverty. Whether it's cashing a check, sending money to family, or trying to borrow money, people living in poverty have...
Primer
Why do Things Exist? Setting the Stage for Evolution
Before thinking about living things, let's see what we can say about why raindrops and planets exist.
Primer
Why do Things Exist? Setting the Stage for Evolution
Before thinking about living things, let's see what we can say about why raindrops and planets exist.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economics
What is a good model in economics? "The Kids" asked a dozen economists in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, and we invite you to watch what they said. Good models are those that pass the test of time, says...
AllTime 10s
What If A Digital Afterlife Was Created? - Alternate Reality
Religious folk believe in a god or re-incarnation, which of course is a nice thought. But what if such a life was available to all through technological advancements, would you willingly sign up for it? And how would the rest of the...
Let's Tute
Introduction to Vectors and Vector Addition
This video explains the concept of force as a vector quantity with defined direction and magnitude. It demonstrates how forces in opposite directions cancel each other out, and how the parallelogram law of vector addition can be used to...
Curated Video
Creational Design Patterns in Modern C++ - Game Implementation - Part I
This video is the first part of the six-part video that demonstrates how to add the animation and vehicle classes. This clip is from the chapter "Prototype" of the series "Creational Design Patterns in Modern C++".This video provides an...
ACDC Leadership
The Handshake Market: Supply & Demand Activity
Here is a great activity that helps students understand markets and price signals. In this activity half the class are buyers and the other half are sellers. The product they are selling is handshakes. There are four rounds and each last...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Leighton Quon Talks About New Air Traffic System Demonstrations
A conversation with Leighton Quon, project manager in the Airspace Technology Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The Wall Street Journal
Tech Demo: Flight Simulator for Surgeons
A combination of virtual reality and haptic feedback aims to improve medical training.
NASA
New Simulation Creates "Pulsar in a Box"
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated "pulsar in a box" are gaining a more detailed understanding of the complex, high-energy environment around spinning neutron stars, also called pulsars. The model traces the paths...
IDG TECHtalk
Tips for conducting effective phishing simulations
Poorly executed phishing simulations can send the wrong message to employees. Here’s how to do it right.
The Viral Fever
Cosmic Journeys: The Complex Dynamics of Earth's Climate
This video explores the complex workings of Earth's climate and how it is changing due to factors such as greenhouse gases and ocean currents. Using virtual tools and satellite data, scientists are predicting the future evolution of the...
Science360
IT'S A TWISTER--OF DATA!
In episode 75, Charlie and Jordan talk about visualizations that may reduce the false alarm rate for tornado prediction. How? Amy McGovern at the University of Oklahoma is trying to make high resolution simulations of supercell storms to...
NASA
NASA | Supercomputer Shows How an Exoplanet Makes Waves
A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that greatly increases collisions among the...
Primer
Simulating Competition and Logistic Growth
When resources are limited, how do populations grow (or not)?
Programming Electronics Academy
Arduino Simulator Q & A
Want to learn more about the limitations of TinkerCAD as well as some helpful pro tips on how to use it? Keep watching to learn more!
Curated Video
Testing a Model Using a Simple Simulation
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of conducting a simulation to determine if a model is consistent with given results. Using the example of a basketball player's free throw percentage, the teacher demonstrates how to design...
NASA
Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they approach, all are stretched and deformed by the black hole’s gravity. Some are completely pulled apart into a long...
Vlogbrothers
Aliens
Is it aliens? Probably not. Why? Because we don't know almost everything, and finding an explanation that could explain almost anything doesn't recognize that there is a whole lot we don't know. We are so extremely biased toward thinking...