TED Talks
John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders
John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for...
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Language and technology - Digital Nepal (5/8)
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The Science and Technology of Tomorrow (Part 2)
Buy the Books & Shop the Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/majorprep Part 1: https://youtu.be/xPXifzNHyYU No one knows what the future of science and technology will be, but experts are able to predict what they think will be here in...
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The Science and Technology of Tomorrow
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO2_6fExuWI No one knows what the future of science and technology will be, but experts are able to predict what they think will be here in the coming years and decades. Some of the topics...
TED Talks
TED: The math behind basketball's wildest moves | Rajiv Maheswaran
Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Uchenna Oguagha - African American Girls and Technology
Uchenna Oguagha is a senior at Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Magnet High School in Bridgeport, CT. The campus is divided into three different schools: 1. Information Technology, 2. Biotech & Zoology, and 3....
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Engineering and Science for Observing and Helping the World
Pamela Emch is an engineering fellow with Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. Her work is at the forefront of developing new technologies to answer some of our biggest questions about both Earth and space. Pam offers inspiration and...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Wave of the Future: In Their Own Words
Looking for a hands-on summer job in a research laboratory? If you are an undergraduate student majoring in physics, materials science, chemistry, applied mathematics, computer science or engineering, the National Institute of Standards...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Luis Vilson - This is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master's degree in...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is math discovered or invented? - Jeff Dekofsky
Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The math behind Michael Jordan's legendary hang time - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson
Michael Jordan's legendary slam dunk from the free throw line has been calculated at 0.92 seconds of pure hang time. But how many seconds could Jordan have gotten were he doing the same jump on Mars? Or Jupiter? Andy Peterson and Zack...
Ivydale Science & Technology Service
How to make a plastic straw and paper windwheel
This simple design can be made and assembled by Yr1/2 and just needs scissors and sticky tape to complete. Older pupils could perhaps design their own windwheels using a computer drawing/paint program. There are obvious tie-ins with...
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Curl - Grad, Div and Curl (3/3)
Introduction to this vector operation through the context of modelling water flow in a river. How curl helps in predicting storms. (Part 3 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4CDD2976B5FE747 Transcript link -...
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Environmental Science – Grad, Div and Curl (1/3)
Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness of a path' on a hillside? (Part 1 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4CDD2976B5FE747 Transcript link -...
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Environmental Science – Div - Grad, Div and Curl (2/3)
Introduction to the divergence div. Heat flow and temperature distribution inside a modern nuclear reactor. (Part 2 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4CDD2976B5FE747 Transcript link -...
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Polls and predictions - Opinion polls in a nutshell (#3/4)
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Patterns of Life – Charles Darwin and Game theory (#1/5)
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Patterns of Life – D’Arcy Thompson, Structuralism and the Shape of Life (#2/5)
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Patterns of Life – Alan Turing and Morphogenesis (#4/5)
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Patterns of Life – Edward Lorenz and Chaos Theory (#5/5)
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Patterns of Life – Warren Weaver and Complexity Theory (#3/5)
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Scientists Trapped Electrons In a Quantum Fractal (And It's Wild!)
Fractals aren’t just crazy cool mathematically infinite shapes. They might just have the capacity to revolutionize modern electronics as we know it. Thumbnail image courtesy of Sander Kempkes. There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in...
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Edouard Benedictus and the Accidental Safety Glass – The Serendipity of Science (3/3)
When a glass flask was knocked to the floor in Eduard Benedictus' laboratory he was surprised to discover that the glass had shattered but somehow the flask stayed together. It was all the result of his assistant failing to clean away...
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Integrated Circuits: Third Generation Technology - The Four Generations of Computers (3/4)
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