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Curated Video

Scientific Bias

3rd - 8th
Scientific Bias evaluates the credibility of an author’s claims in a sample advertisement by identifying a potential source of bias.
Instructional Video4:59
Big Think

How news feed algorithms supercharge confirmation bias | Eli Pariser

6th - 11th
The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms. - According to a Pew Research poll, 45% of U.S. adults get at least some of their news from Facebook, with half of that amount using Facebook as their only news outlet. - Algorithms on...
Instructional Video4:05
Big Think

A short history of knowledge, from feudalism to the Internet | Alice Dreger

6th - 11th
Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today. The enlightenment period was a big boon to the...
Instructional Video5:34
Curated Video

Adults Stumped By Homework For 7 Year Olds!

6th - 11th
This comes from the "math missionary" Greg Tang whose website GregTangMath.com contains many math education games and resources. I saw it in a tweet by best-selling author Celeste Ng, who said it was given to her 7 year old. The problem...
Instructional Video3:17
Curated Video

Can YOU Solve It? This Question Stumped 75% Of PhD Economists

6th - 11th
Introductory economics courses cover the concept of an opportunity cost. Can you figure out the opportunity cost for the problem in the video? This video presents a question that surprisingly more than 75% of PhD economists did not...
Instructional Video3:06
Big Think

Prejudices Are Harder to Shake Than You Think, with Heidi Grant Halvorson

6th - 11th
Can stereotypes be useful? Sometimes they can be, even though a lot of the time they're not. Psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of No One Understands You And What To Do About
Instructional Video4:55
World Science Festival

Watch "Science And Story" Highlights With Cory Doctorow, Joyce Carol Oates, And More

6th - 11th
In this highlight reel from the 2014 World Science Festival program “Science and Story: The Write Angle,” authors Steven Pinker, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Jo Marchant and Sean Carroll chat about computer-generated poems, our...
Podcast36:29
NASA

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 22, Reflections on Columbia Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Knowledge Officer Ed Rogers discusses the complex human elements involved in disasters such as the Space Shuttle Columbia accident.
Podcast22:58
NASA

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 4, APPEL Knowledge Services Overview Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Roger Forsgren, NASA Chief Knowledge Officer and APPEL Knowledge Services Director, discusses the integration of training and knowledge sharing activities.
Instructional Video7:40
Numberphile

How Random is a Coin Toss?

6th - 12th
It turns out that coin tosses might not be random after all. A math professor explains the results of his work in a video from the Numberphile Coins series. Flipping a coin results in the original state (heads or tails) 51 percent of the...

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