Dana R. Fisher calls herself an "apocalyptic optimist" based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out in the streets demanding the action...

Farming is the worst thing humanity has ever done to the planet, says journalist George Monbiot. What's more: the global food system could be heading toward collapse. Detailing the technological solutions we need to radically reshape...

Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but...

You just wanted to shuffle across the room in your pajamas and bunny slippers, but when you go to reach for the door knob... you get shocked! What gives!? What causes this strange effect?

In this video, I answer the question, What is Anti-fragile? – and how does the conception anti-fragility apply to Project Management?



It describes things that not only benefit from a chaotic environment, but need one to...

The factors affecting global oil prices, and what can happen if prices shift dramatically. Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. Oil price is determined by the current supply to world markets, the amount in reserves, and...

Watch the extraordinary outcome of a laboratory experiment in which participants are given electric shocks. How does anticipation of pain or the use of placebos affect the pain the participants feel? Biology - Being Human - Learning...

FT Food Revolution - Recent crises such as the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have thrown the vulnerability of supply chains, and with them, food supplies, into sharp focus. But as the FT’s Camilla Hodgson reports, a landmark...

Ever wonder why some people give up really easily and other people can keep going strong even when it looks they will fail anyway? That’s what this I explain in this video.
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One reason behind giving up quickly is...

In this video, Dr Greg Martin talks about Fragile States and Health.

In part 1 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...

Economics can be more effective if we try to integrate pure theory with real-world observation and insights from other disciplines, Lord Adair Turner says

A 29-YEAR-OLD man is living to his life to the full, despite having died NINE times. Jamie Poole was born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a heart condition in which a portion of the heart becomes thickened, resulting in the organ...

On this episode, Mark is getting shocked... by an Electric Eel! Yep, you read that correctly.. he's sticking his hand in a tank to experience the full force of the shock of an electric eel - so, how badly will it hurt, and will he be...