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Curated Video
The Basis of Social Facts
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) gives examples of social facts that depend on nothing particularly human at all.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The science of smog - Kim Preshoff
On July 26, 1943, Los Angeles was blanketed by a thick gas that stung people’s eyes and blocked out the Sun. Panicked residents believed their city had been attacked using chemical warfare. But the cloud wasn’t an act of war. It was...
Curated Video
Grounding and Anchoring
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) explains how his grounding and anchoring model of social ontology works.
Curated Video
Beyond Theories of Practice
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) discusses how many sociologists and anthropologists need to move more beyond anthropocentrism to make better models of the social world.
Curated Video
Building Better Models
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) describes how we can use philosophical understanding to help build better, more rigorous models in social science.
Psychology Unlocked
Minority Influence - Social Influence - Psychology A-Level Revision Tool
This video is the second installment of our Psychology A Level Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.
60 Second Histories
Building an Egyptian pyramid - part 2
A pyramid worker explains how the Egyptians moved the immense stone blocks.
Curated Video
Calle Ocho: Miami's Biggest Latin American Festival
What began as a small block party in 1978 has become Miami's biggest annual party, famous for its conga line. Let's travel to Little Havana to experience Latin American food, dance, and more on Calle Ocho!
Clarendon Learning
The Digestive System for Kids | A fun engaging overview of what happens when we eat!
The Digestive System for Kids | A fun engaging overview of what happens when we eat will teach you everything you need to know about your body's digestive system. Lots happens when you eat so come with us as we learn all about it! You...
Curated Video
Types of Mountains
Types of Mountains examines types of mountains and how each is formed by exploring fold, fault-block, dome, volcanic, and plateau mountains.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel has research interests in personality structure, process, and development, and in self-regulation (aka willpower).
His professional honors and awards include the following: National Academy of Sciences...
His professional honors and awards include the following: National Academy of Sciences...
Healthcare Triage
Early Childhood Interventions. What Are They?
In the next year and a half, we here at Healthcare triage are going to take some deep dives into issues of health policy, especially those that touch on social determinants of health and health equity. The episodes that do so will be a...
Curated Video
Bodies of Water 2
Bodies of Water differentiates between different bodies of water by exploring bays, canals, gulfs, lakes, oceans, rivers, seas, and straits.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The scientific origins of the Minotaur - Matt Kaplan
The myth of the Minotaur tells the story of an enraged beast forever wandering the corridors of a damp labyrinth, filled with a rage so intense that its deafening roar shakes the earth. But is this story just fiction, or an attempt of...
60 Second Histories
Pyramids of Giza
This short history video looks at the location of Giza and the Great Pyramid itself, built for King Khufu. It also explains why pyramids were built near to the river.
60 Second Histories
Victorian Workhouse - part 3
An account of how whole families often had to go into the workhouse and once there, they were separated and made to work for no pay
60 Second Histories
King Charles I - the execution
An eyewitness account of the excecution of King Charles I outside the Banqueting House in London on 30th January 1649
TED-Ed
The Fascinating History of Cemeteries
An irreverently illustrated video history of how human societies have honored their dead is both suitable and thought-provoking for high schoolers in the frame of mind to step back from the sadness of death. Scholars...
TED-Ed
Did Ancient Troy Really Exist?
Because the monsters Scylla, Charybdis, and Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey are fictional, scholars may assume the Iliad is also entirely fictional. A carefully researched video describes Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of the...
Crash Course
The Chemical Mind
"It's all about the neurons, baby!" Part 3 of the 13-video course on psychology focuses on how body chemistry influences thinking and behavior. The structure and functions of neurons, synapses, and hormones, and the special importance of...