Curated Video
In Praise of Barriers
Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that many cultural and social factors play a key role in leading people to commit suicide, highlighting the effectiveness of various social policies designed to combat it.
Curated Video
The Mind as a Functional System
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes how psychology and neuroscience might overlap through the mind.
Curated Video
Suicide and Depression
Poet and independent scholar Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that suicidal thoughts and acts are often not limited to the clinically depressed.
Mazz Media
Lab Safety: Radiation (Safety Procedures)
In this live-action program viewers will learn overexposure to radiation can cause serious biological and environmental damage and this means that mandatory safety procedures must be followed at all times. Students will come to...
Next Animation Studio
NASA finds possible clue for life on early Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover found organic compounds called thiophenes in soil samples that may have been produced by bacteria.
Science360
THESE BIOBOTS SHOW SOME REAL MUSCLE
WARNING: THIS VIDEO HAS SCENES WITH FLASHING LIGHTS. The tiny BioBots engineered at one NSF-funded Science and Technology Center (STC) move a bit like inchworms, but they represent giant strides in science and engineering. They can be...
Science360
Alzheimer’s patients: A surprise finding in executive function
Deborah Zaitchik says executive function measures for Alzheimer’s patients show staggering declines. Under a National Science Foundation-funded INSPIRE project, Harvard University psychologists Susan Carey and Deborah Zaitchik are...
Curated Video
Biological Methods of Extracting Metals: Pros and Cons
The video explains the concept of biological methods of extracting metals. It explains the conventional methods of extracting metals using chemical reactions or electrolysis and the limitations of these techniques when dealing with low...
AllTime 10s
10 Banned Weapons Too Brutal For War
We all know war is hell, but it'd be so much worse if these deadly weapons were still legal. From Ricin to Cluster Bombs, here are 10 Banned Weapons too Brutal for War.
Next Animation Studio
Singapore may have flattened the curve on coronavirus: report
Singapore’s lockdown may have reduced COVID-19’s spread to one new case per carrier, according to The Strait Times
Science360
Atmospheric scientist Ralph Cicerone - ScienceLives
If you read Ralph Cicerone’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology profile, it says as an undergraduate he was a bit unprepared when he arrived at the school in 1961. Apparently, the public high school in his small Western Pennsylvania...
National Parks Service
Yosemite Nature Notes 29: Soundscapes
"When you start to tune in to the soundscape, you realize there's this other dimension to what we're experiencing when we're out here." - Ranger Karyn.
TLDR News
What Does Transgender Mean? - TLDR News
We delve into what it means to be transgender, as well as the differences between biological sex, gender identity and gender expression.
NASA
NASA | Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings
There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in rocks,...
Next Animation Studio
Increased methane emissions linked to fossil fuel usage: Study
A new study published by the University of Rochester in Nature magazine has found that human activity has been contributing significantly to the rise of methane emissions via the use of fossil fuels.
Mazz Media
Biosphere
This live-action video program is about the word biosphere. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word biosphere through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
Deep Learning CNN Convolutional Neural Networks with Python - Pooling Tensors
This video talks about pooling Tensors. This clip is from the chapter "Deep Neural Network Architecture" of the series "Deep Learning CNN: Convolutional Neural Networks with Python".This section focuses on the deep neural network...
Institute of Art and Ideas
What is consciousness?
Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material...
msvgo
Microbes as Biofertilisers
It describes the role of microbes as biofertilisers and the advantages of use of microbes over chemical fertilisers.
Science360
LEVERAGING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT CANCER
Inventors are using small-scale biology and engineering to find ways to use the body's natural defenses to effectively treat cancer. National Science Foundation-funded small business GigaGen uses microfluidics, bioinformatics and genome...
Science360
Extremophile Hunter
With support from the National Science Foundation, Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible--from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets...
Mazz Media
Ecological Succession
This live-action video program is about the term ecological succession. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term ecological succession through use of video footage, photographs,...
Science360
Cell-ular Reception: Engineering Tissues to Rebuild Bodies
The pointy pencils of “The Fast Draw” provide a primer on the awesome science and engineering behind one of the most game-changing advances in the last decade. Made possible by advances in engineering, materials science and biology, the...
msvgo
Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants
It explains the need for intake of nitrogen in plants. It also describes methods of nitrogen nutrition such as biological nitrogen fixation, fertilisers and manures.