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Connaître (to know) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb CONNAÎTRE (TO KNOW) in the PAST TENSE.
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Vouloir (to want) — Conditional Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb VOULOIR (TO WANT) in the Conditional Tense.
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Theme and Motivation
“Theme and Motivation” will explain how character motivation impacts the theme of a story.
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Understanding Demand Analysis and Correlation in Stock Trading
In this lesson, we delve into the significance of demand analysis and correlation in stock trading. We explore how price fluctuations in different companies, such as Starbucks and McDonald's, can be influenced by varying client bases and...
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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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Why Bombs Make a Whistling Sound When They Fall Through the Air
You may have noticed in movies and tv shows that when a bomb falls through the sky, it makes a whistling sound. This has to do with the fighter planes and bomber planes of world war 2. During the second world war, German air force...
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Cause and Effect Text Structure
Cause and Effect Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the cause and effect structure of informational text.
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Redesigning the Violin, Part 2
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustical researcher Joseph Curtin continues his description of how the design of the violin might be improved upon, this time focussing on changes to the sound.
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Our Internal Internet
Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis describes why he believes that our brains are analogous to the internet, with main processing servers spread out in different regions.
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Sensationalistic Science
Celebrated physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) highlights poor practices in both science and science journalism.
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Circular Reasoning?
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, describes how his cosmological theory predicts circular patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that should be observable, but that understanding how precisely to interpret...
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The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
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The Problem with Speakers
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin discusses the unique directionality of sound emitted from a violin.
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A Sad Story
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) recounts his frustration of the "faster than light neutrinos" story that made media headlines in 2011.
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The Subtleties of Medication
UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw describes how the practice of taking medication for ADHD and other conditions is far more subtle and complicated than most of us appreciate.
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Testing Language
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his research of testing what is happening in our minds when we speak.
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Situational Denial
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how, more than 4 decades after his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, many people still deny the importance of situational effects.
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The Roots of Behaviour
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany gives her thoughts on why many people are adapting their dualistic views on mind and body, and the moral consequences of this change in perspective, due to the mounting progress of neuroscience.
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Natural and Unnatural Sleep
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker distinguishes between pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to inducing sleep.
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The Decline Effect
Jonathan Schooler, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara, describes the mysterious "Decline Effect" and speculates on its possible explanation.
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Watercolor Techniques 2
This is a procedural video that will introduce students to watercolor techniques.
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Analogies
“Analogies” discusses types of word relationships in analogies, including synonyms, antonyms, part of a whole, cause and effect, and item and category.
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Practise Your French Big Numbers
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise the big numbers.