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...
Curated Video
Types of Characterization
“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization
MinuteEarth
Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
Null results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose results fail to support their hypotheses.
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...
Curated Video
Grandfather Paradox: Explained in Simple Words
The grandfather paradox is considered the biggest, most popular objection to the logical possibility of backwards time travel. It characterizes a hypothetical situation in which a time traveller goes to their past and ends up causing an...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - The Birth Of The Populist Party
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
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...
The Viral Fever
India - Pakistan The Story of Partition
One of the largest migrations in modern history, Partition was characterized by its brutal violence that continues to scar the Asian subcontinent to this day. This episodes documents the personal stories of people separated by Partition...
Brian McLogan
Using segment addition postulate to find the value of a segment
👉 Learn how to find the missing measure of a segment. A segment is a line that has two endpoints. A segment can be subdivided into several portions. The length of the segment is the sum of all the sub-divisions of the segment. Thus, when...
The Cynical Historian
300 | Based on a True Story
Here is another episode of 'Based on a True Story.' This time it is 300 and how it is based on the battle of Thermopylae. It is a great film with a great many historically innacurate plot points....
NASA
A 3D Look at the 2015 El Niño
El Niño is a recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Two back-to-back 3-D visualizations track the changes in ocean temperatures and currents, respectively, throughout...
The Cynical Historian
The Bronze Age Changes with Archeological Evidence
Check out the full collaboration playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4kqG-CL4ToARSQlWqu6jRzeEnbFAQCkB Up until the 19th century, the Bronze Age was merely a time of legends, where the Bible and Iliad told fantastic...
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft will play a significant...
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA’s WFIRST Spacecraft
On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the WFIRST spacecraft will play a...
Curated Video
How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy
The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? In his new book, American...
Alliterative
The Art of Propaganda: The Endnotes
Some extra information from "Bellini" (https://youtu.be/WVRP2EDTyCM) about Mannerism, art & the Counter-Reformation, and the etymology of Propaganda. Show notes: http://www.alliterative.net/bellini Image Credits:...
The Cynical Historian
The 1919 Red Scare - the craziest year in American history
Many people have heard of the first Red Scare, but we should look at the year of 1919 more thoroughly. It’s probably the craziest one in American history. Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York: Simon &...
Psych2Go
A Declassified Guide to Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms,...
IT'S HISTORY
Mass Production and the Road to World War 1 I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
At the end of the 19th century, the inventions of the Industrial Revolution create a whole set of new industrial branches. The second wave of the Industrial Revolution is characterized by the chemical industry in Germany and mass...
NASA
SPEXone: Dutch Instrument Arrives for PACE Mission
Aerosols are small solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that affect climate change directly through interactions with solar radiation. Aerosols affect climate indirectly by changing the micro- and macro-physical properties of...
Janus Academy
Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 3 - Simple Characters | How to Write Chinese Characters
Hi, everyone, I’m Audrey from Janus Academy, an established language school based in Singapore. We focus on teaching Chinese and Japanese, specialize in Chinese phonetics. Hope you find our videos interesting and educational. In this...
Bozeman Science
Specular Reflection
In this video Paul Andersen explains how light that is perfectly reflected creates specular reflection. The angle of the incident ray is equal to the angle of the reflected ray. Specular reflection is also known as mirror-like...
Smithsonian Institution
Why Right Brained Is Wrong…Brained
The brain is an especially complex organ. A PD lesson from the Good Thinking series discusses the importance of not isolating processes to the right or left side of the brain. The instruction uses specific examples to illustrate how...