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Benefits of Technology
Benefits of Technology discusses the many ways that technology increases the quality of human life with a focus on health, communication, exploration, and learning.
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Gas Chromatography
The video : “Gas Chromatography” explains the process of chromatography, with a focus on gas chromatography and how it can be used effectively in the field of forensics.
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Paint Application
This video will demonstrate different techniques on applying paint to a canvas.
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Contour Line Drawing
This video will demonstrate how to create a contour line drawing as well as a blind contour line drawing.
Tom Nicholas
Phenomenology - WTF? Phenomenology, Time and Nolan's Dunkirk Timeline | Phenomenology explained!
In this latest episode of What the Theory? I take a look at phenomenology, time and dasein (Heidegger's concept of consciousness) through the example of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, the narrative of which is incredibly playful with how...
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Open Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches open syllables and how to read them. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.
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Closed Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches closed syllables and how to read them. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.
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Magic E (CVCe) Syllables {Syllable Types}
This video teaches magic e or CVCe syllables and how to read them. It is assumed that kids already know open and closed syllables. See links to those videos below. Knowing syllable types help readers read multi-syllable words.
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Beyond Reflex
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti relates his experience studying minimally conscious patients in an effort to probe the limits of consciousness, describing how distinguishing between conscious acts and mere reflex is sometimes much harder...
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Rigidity and Fragility
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physics' two guiding principles demonstrate both rigidity and fragility,
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A Mysterious Relationship
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) examines the curious structural relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity.
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Retooling Our Brains
Duke neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis describes how the tools around us physically affect our brain biology and influence how we think.
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“Freezing in” the Wrong Picture
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how popular science writing often communicates already outdated ideas to the public.
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The Statistics of Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, discusses Frank Drake's famous attempt to evaluate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.
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Discovering Wise Ten-Year-Olds
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) discusses her formative encounters with children who were imbued with a growth mindset.
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Assessing Consciousness
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti reveals how, by using advanced brain-scanning techniques, he and his colleagues were able to deduce that roughly 20% of brain trauma patients who appeared unconscious at the bedside were, in fact, conscious.
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Applying Illusions
UC San Diego psychologist of music Diana Deutsch describes how the celebrated Octave Illusion she discovered has the potential to be directly applied to the world of clinical medicine by giving an accurate, non-invasive indicator of...
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A Bridge to Exceptional Memory
World-champion bridge player Fred Gitelman describes how avid bridge players spontaneously develop exceptional memory skills after several years of playing.
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The Anthropic Principle
Nobel Laureate in Physics Anthony Leggett (Illinois) describes the so-called Anthropic Principle that some invoke to answer the "fine tuning problem" of cosmology.
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The Hero of Abu Ghraib
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) details the whistleblowing actions of private Joe Darby in stopping the atrocities at the American prison of Abu Ghraib.
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Self-control
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, relates his theory that exercising self-control involves a depletion of a personal energy reserve, describing some experiments that support his hypothesis.
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The Physics of Black Holes
Nobel Laureate in Physics Roger Penrose (Oxford) briefly summarizes Stephen Hawking's work on the temperature of black holes and Hawking radiation.
Music Matters
Why Learn Figured Bass? - Music Theory
See why every musician should become familiar with figured bass. For harpsichordists and organists needing to realise figured bass in performance realising figured bass fluently with style is essential. For others it’s a useful way of...
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Using a Slow Moving Theme with Cantus Firmus - Music Composition
We explore how to write a free moving line over a sustained melody presented in long notes. The example here uses the first two phrases of “Happy Birthday to you” set as a cantus firmus in long notes in the left hand, while the right...