The Learning Depot
How Authors Describe Characters: Direct vs Indirect Characterization
When taking a reading comprehension test, have you ever been stumped by a question asking about how the author or another character feels about a specific character? Or perhaps when reading a novel or story, you’re somewhat confused...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Weisz - Youth Mental Health Interventions
John Weisz was born and reared in Mississippi and received a BA from Mississippi College, in his home town of Clinton. He later served with his wife Jenny in the U.S. Peace Corps, in Kenya, where both worked as teachers. Then Weisz...
APMonitor
Detect Steel Plate Defects with ML
Steel plate defects are extracted from photos of several faulty steel plates with surface imperfections. Image analysis revealed 27 different features to describe the steel fault. A total of 6 unique types of faults are categorized, with...
Curated Video
The Benefit of Statistics
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the importance of using double-blind tests to remove subjective biases.
SciShow
What Makes Soft Things Soft?
You're minding your own business, looking at blankets, when suddenly you feel something heavenly. Now you are petting an inanimate object and thinking about naming it and bringing it home. Why do some fabrics feel so soft?! Skillshare is...
Curated Video
What is Design Thinking? Human-centered Problem-solving
With the continuing rise of Agile Project Management, a term Project Managers are hearing more often is Design Thinking. So, in this video, I will answer the question, 'What is Design Thinking?' Design Thinking is a technical...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Weisz - Teachers Make a Difference - Thomas Achenbach
John Weisz was born and reared in Mississippi and received a BA from Mississippi College, in his home town of Clinton. He later served with his wife Jenny in the U.S. Peace Corps, in Kenya, where both worked as teachers. Then Weisz...
Curated Video
Why Covid-19 is more AND less deadly than we knew
Making sense of the coronavirus death toll. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid...
Stated Clearly
Soft Tissue Found Inside a Dinosaur Bone!
In 2003, an exceptionally well preserved T. rex leg bone was unearthed in the Cretaceous rocks of Montana. Upon close examination, Dr. Mary Schweitzer found the bone to contain soft tissue inside - tiny blood vessels and proteins! Some...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'Looking Back, Looking Now'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'Heaven'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - Teachers Make a Difference - John Allen, Louis Rubin Jr and George Garrett
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'How Long The Long Winter'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sanditon: An Opinionated Woman
When Charlotte Heywood offers her forthright opinions of the Parker brothers, she is chastised by the dashing Sidney Parker, in this video excerpt from Sanditon Masterpiece, based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. The brief encounter...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Henoch Schonlein Purpura
Henoch-Schonlein (also known as anaphylactorial purpura) is a type of vasculitis that affects small blood vessels and characterized by elevated immunoglobulin A (lgA). Symptoms of this disease include skin legions, joint pain, blood in...