Curated Video
Restless Legs Syndrome and Sleep
There are two main movement disorders that are responsible for sleep problems: Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD). RLS afflicts between 9% and 15% of the general population. That’s not a small amount...
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Planets of the Solar System
Planets of the Solar System describes each planet’s movement, distance, size, and composition in relation to the sun.
PBS
How to Analyze a Single Stock
Maybe a particular stock has caught your eye... but how can you tell if it's a good buy?
Curated Video
The Shuttle Run
Dr. Algae reminds the student of The President’s Fitness Challenge and then introduces your student to an exercise called the “the shuttle run”.
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Energy and Exercise
Professor Socrates and Miss P conduct an experiment to see the way that the body needs and uses energy.
Music Matters
Can You Hear Four-Part Harmony and Write It Down? - Ear Training
Have you ever had the frustrating experience of hearing a musical idea you want to work with as a player or as a composer but have struggled with being able to write it down? This lesson is an exercise in hearing a passage of four part...
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The Structure of Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes Bill Stokoe’s early work on analyzing sign languages and searching for the relevant parameters to characterize meaning.
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Signing As Language
Sign language linguist Carol Padden relates the importance of Bill Stokoe’s pioneering work for developing a deeper understanding, not only of sign language, but of the linguistic structure of all languages.
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Doing Mathematics
Mathematician Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, describes his unexpected trajectory from abstract mathematical calculations in the back of an Austin Mini to developing a deeper understanding of how animals move, illustrating the...
Learn French With Alexa
French Verbs of Movement
Alexa teaches you the 16 French verbs of movement with a helpful acronym: DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP
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Factors Affecting Dissolving Rates
Factors Affecting Dissolving Rates identifies the conditions that will speed up or slow down the dissolving process by adding salt and sugar to both cold water and warm water, with and without stirring.
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Etymology
“Etymology” describes the way to research and determine the origins of words.
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Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Energy examines the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one form to another by exploring conservation of energy.
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Bill Stokoe's Legacy
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes her early experience with transformative sign language linguist Bill Stokoe.
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Dangerous Purity
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how societal purification movements to eliminate truth often have terrible consequences.
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What Happens When You Get 'Knocked Out'?
A 'knock out’ occurs when a person is hit with a series of punches, kicks, elbow or knee shots, until the knockout hit is delivered and finally lose consciousness. In simple word knock out can be described as a sensation of...
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Five Themes of Geography
Five Themes of Geography identifies the five themes of geography by examining location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
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Friction
Friction defines the term friction by providing examples and comparing and contrasting the three types: sliding, rolling, and fluid.
Tom Nicholas
Postmodernism - WTF? An introduction to Postmodernist Theory
What is postmodernism? This is certainly my most requested What the Theory? video yet. In it, I hope to provide an introduction to postmodernist theory and postmodernist philosophy. Along the way, we'll look at simulacra and...
Music Matters
Rossini's Writing for the Harmonium - Composer Insights
We investigate a less familiar corner of Rossini’s writing, namely the Preludio Religioso from his Petite Messe. Unusually, the movement is written for Harmonium. This composer insights lesson goes on to explore the initial fugal design...
Music Matters
How the String Quartet Evolved - Music Appreciation
The String Quartet is a Classical Period innovation, developed largely in the hands of Haydn. This music appreciation lesson presents an overview of how the String Quartet evolved and also explores the Baroque background that led to the...
Planet PE
Testing paper 1- GCSE PE Revision Live
IA very quick run through of some paper 1 information- testing my equipment