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Conservative Radicalism vs. Radical Conservatism
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes two approaches to getting unstuck.
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Bad Assumptions
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, describes how the concept of variability is a key concept to understanding the brain that has been consistently overlooked as we developed invalid assumptions of brain processing based upon...
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A Good Experiment, Defined
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) uses Alain Aspect's famous experiment of the Bell inequalities as an example of what an experiment should be.
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The Sally-Anne Test
UCL development psychologist Uta Frith describes the so-called “Sally-Anne” test or “false belief” test that she and her colleagues used to determine that autistic children generally have great difficulty in ascribing beliefs and desires...
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Strongly Constrained
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Instutute for Advanced Study) describes how today's theorists have much less room to manoeuvre than is often supposed.
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Looking to the Past
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes his intriguing prescription for how we might make progress in fundamental physics without experiment to guide us.
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Mapping the Brain
Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) uses fMRI to give us a picture of which parts of the brain are involved in visual processing.
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Context and Variability
Cognitive scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) highlights how our current models of psychology are often based on false principles, using metaphors for the mind that simply don’t apply to the brain.
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Distracted by Language
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how we must make sure that we don't distract ourselves by the language that we use to describe the physical world, and must instead simply focus on precisely...
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The Stanford Prison Study
Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo describes how his infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Study changed from a volunteer experiment that the students couldn’t take seriously to an all too real situational dynamic in the exercise...
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Testing Language
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his research of testing what is happening in our minds when we speak.
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Perfect Pitch & Tone Languages
UC San Diego psychologist of music Diana Deutsch describes her motivation to rigorously explore a link between tone languages and perfect pitch in music, and the scepticism she encountered on all sides.
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Meaning vs. Grammar
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) sketches out an intriguing future experiment he'd like to conduct to probe the difference between meaning-level and grammar-level effects.
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False Intuitions
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes how the common view that speakers are primarily concerned about being understood by their listeners is, in fact, incorrect.
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Mentalizing with Dolls
Cognitive scientist Uta Frith (UCL) describes the famous "mentalizing" experiments that exposed the psychological limits of autistic children.
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Archimedes’ Principle
Archimedes’ Principle investigates important scientific laws related to buoyancy by analyzing Archimedes’ Principle.
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Lab Safety
“Lab Safety” will explain general rules that should be followed when performing an experiment.
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Using the Boclips "Sparks" Feature to Browse Videos by Curriculum Alignments
Learn more about "Sparks," one of the most popular video discovery features on the Boclips CourseSpark platform. Sparks help you browse video recommendations by popular and widely adopted curricula. In this video, you will learn about...
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Experiment Versus Scientific Investigation
Experiment Versus Scientific Investigation compares and contrasts an experiment and a scientific investigation.
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Sound on the Move
“Sound on the Move” explores how sound waves travel different distances depending on the type of material through which they travel.
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The Scientific Method for Kids
Review the steps of The Scientific Method by conducting an experiment. Put raisins in water. What happens? Then put raisins in Sprite. What happens?
The Backyard Scientist
Fully-Automatic Table Saw Cannon
I got a lot of feedback from my last video. Now the table saw is back with FULL AUTO more explosions, and i shoot randy. Table saw vs christmas ornaments, oobleck, fish tank, balloons, and soda.
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Can a Motor run on BEANS?
Can gallium destroy an engine? How long would it take? What destroys an engine faster, beans or gallium? Even now, in the age of technological enlightenment these are questions that remain unsolved by modern science.
Neuro Transmissions
I test my cat's love
If you have a cat, you've probably asked yourself, "does my cat love me?" Love is a messy term. It's not all that accurate to the way we feel...that attachment. Does a baby love their parent? I would say yes. So I decided to put Bill and...