The Business Professor
Stanford Prison Study - Zimbardo Studies
The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.
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Separating Solids
Separating Solids demonstrates that mixtures of solids can be separated based on their observable properties, including particle size, shape, color, and magnetic attraction.
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Energy and Exercise
Professor Socrates and Miss P conduct an experiment to see the way that the body needs and uses energy.
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Should You Walk or Run in the Rain?
A question we all ask ourselves every time a black cloud appears and starts rain down on you. So once and for all we investigated this daily quandary to find out the answer!
Debunked
What Are The Limits Of Human Ability?
How FAST can we RUN? How many Gs can we withstand? What’s the limit of human ENDURANCE? How much can we LIFT?
Debunked
The Left Brain Right Brain Myth
Can a dominant side of your brain dictate your personality. LOGICAL vs CREATIVE? The Theory goes that if you are more creative and artistic then you are ‘right-brained’ and if you’re more methodical and better with numbers then you are...
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Can You Survive A Nuclear Blast In A Fridge?! #SURVIVAL #MYTHS
A nuclear blast is about to detonate! Where do you hide?! Indiana Jones opted for a lead lined fridge and survived, but just how safe would it really be?
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Playing on a Train
Mathematician Ian Stewart describes how a momentary diversion to pass the time on a train developed into a deep insight on the nature of symmetric networks, with potential applications for how the brain works.
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How to Use the Scientific Method
“How to Use the Scientific Method” will explain the steps for properly using the scientific method.
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Factors Affecting Dissolving Rates
Factors Affecting Dissolving Rates identifies the conditions that will speed up or slow down the dissolving process by adding salt and sugar to both cold water and warm water, with and without stirring.
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The Chemical Evolution of Earth
Describes the Miller-Urey experiment and how it described the beginning of life on Earth.
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Soluble or Insoluble?
Soluble or Insoluble classifies soluble and insoluble materials by conducting an experiment of adding various materials to warm water.
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Chemical Reaction in a Bag
Chemical Reaction in a Bag demonstrates that energy has the ability to cause motion by conducting an experiment that involves adding vinegar to baking soda in a zippered sandwich bag.
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Harnessing a Crisis
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.
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Lab – Factors that Affect Enzymes
Visual demonstration of the lab factors that affect enzymes
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Do You Really Produce Carbon Dioxide?
This is a lab video that proves that human beings exhale carbon dioxide.
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Static Electricity
Static Electricity demonstrates that an electrically-charged object can attract an uncharged object by conducting an experiment with a charged balloon and paper.
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Thinking Outside the Box
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his early interests in language and what he loves about cognitive science research.
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Fringe Benefits
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin describes how being receptive to wacky, unorthodox ideas - up to a point - brings various benefits to our understanding of the world.
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Rigidity and Fragility
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physics' two guiding principles demonstrate both rigidity and fragility,
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The Ghost of Theorist Future
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) offers us a prescription for how we might make progress in fundamental physics without experiment to guide us.
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Testing Reality
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, relates how the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment was generally ignored for decades before John Bell pointed the way towards a key experiment to test it...
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Fundamental Research or Glorified Engineering?
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) describes how quantum information science is a combination of theoretical and applied investigations.