Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economics Analogy to the Revolution in Physics - Martin Wolf
Economics is poised to go through a process similar to what physics did in the early 20th century when the Theory of Relativity superseded Newtonian physics, but did not negate it.
The Wall Street Journal
Growth and Investment
Trade disputes and other forces are cascading through the region. What effect will they have on growth?
Curated Video
Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow 9.1: Using BRNN for Image Classification
We will first provide some contextual information about RNNs. We will see how to implement a BRNN implementation example using the TensorFlow library. The example is using the MNIST database of handwriting. • Look at contextual...
AllTime 10s
10 Myths You Still Believe About WW2
You probably learned all about World War II at school, but there's a good chance you have a few misconceptions about how it all happened. Here's 10 Myths You Still Believe About World War II.
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Summing Up
This program explores the essential components and functions of the nervous system while also investigating the endocrine system. The following parts of the nervous system are illustrated through colorful graphics: brain, spinal cord,...
The Economist
Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy?
The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people, crashed stockmarkets around the world, driven 10m Americans to claim unemployment and caused businesses to haemorrhage money. With economies are in turmoil, how bad will the damage...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Brad Currie - Connected Learning, Connected World
Brad is the Dean of Students and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School District in Chester, NJ. He is passionate about Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), Educational Technology and Social Media in the school setting. Brad...
Science360
Next generation robotic legs for when the going gets rough
One of the major challenges in robotics is designing robots that can move over uneven, loose or unexpected terrain. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer engineer Luther Palmer and his team at the Biomorphic...
Financial Times
Mexico's migrant crackdown
The FT's Central America correspondent Jude Webber travels to the Mexico-Guatemala border to meet migrants desperate to make it to the US and the 'coyote' people smugglers profiting from their pain. Has Mexican president Andrés Manuel...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Reign of Error
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received more that 17 million hits in 30 months. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant...
Curated Video
Forming Past Tense Verbs: Adding Ed
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of how to form the past tense of verbs. It covers common mistakes and provides four rules to follow when adding "ed" to a verb to indicate past tense. The examples given help to...
Hip Hughes History
Why I Oppose EdReform
Common Core, rigor, accountability, testing, data driven instruction.... stop me if you are feeling queasy. As an experienced educator of 15 years I have seen my profession become something that I barely recognize and it makes me sad....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alhassan Susso - Inspiring Teens' Future
Alhassan teaches History in New York’s South Bronx. He was chosen the NY State Teacher of the Year. He himself has overcome many obstacles to succeed in life and in his profession: an immigrant from West Africa, he had a rare eye disease...
Oxford Online English
How to Use Will, Would and Might - English Modal Verbs Lesson
In this lesson you can learn about three verbs: will, would, might. These verbs can be really difficult to use correctly. In this lesson, you'll learn what these three verbs mean, and how to use will, would and might correctly in...
All Ears English
Choose Your Grammar Mistakes Wisely: Subjunctive Tense in English - All Ears English Podcast 1759
Choose Your Grammar Mistakes Wisely: Subjunctive Tense in English - All Ears English Podcast 1759
Science360
Modeling our future climate
Discover how data from the ice core record are used to help scientists predict the future of our climate
History Hit
The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan: Our thoughts on history
What do we normally do when we think about history? Is there a problem thinking this way? The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan, Part 1
Astrum
How would we build a colony on Mars?
Mars is a world similar in a lot of ways to our own. That doesn't mean there aren't a multitude of hurdles to overcome if we were ever to consider settling there.
Healthcare Triage
The Stuff We Worry About, and the Stuff That Actually Kills Us
What are we worried about in terms of health? What's really gonna kill us? How different is that from the past? All this and more on this week's Healthcare Triage News.
Soliloquy
How Jacinda Ardern turned 49% into 53%
In the recent New Zealand Election, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party came away with almost a majority of the vote, but from this, they will get an absolute majority in Parliament, so how did they manage this and turn 49% into...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marc Prensky - Global Future Education
Marc Prensky, coiner of the terms "Digital Native" and "Digital Immigrant" is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant. and innovator in the fields of education and learning.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power In a world composed of global value chains, headline global trade data can mask the truth about how much exports are actually benefiting a country,...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Solving the Mystery of Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 26, 2017.