This video explores five fun facts about Selkies.

This video explores five fun facts about Mermaids.

This video explores five fun facts about Centaurs.

Historian David Armitage (Harvard) uses the example of international intervention to show how history can help us guide today's decisions.

Historian David Cannadine, University of Princeton, describes how he believes the time is ripe for historians to increasingly interact with geneticists and neuroscientists in an attempt to better address the fundamental question of what...

This video explores five fun facts about tigers.

This video explores five fun facts about Minotaur.

Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his initial confusion when trying to understand Machiavelli and other Renaissance philosophers when they spoke of what it means to be a free citizen.

Previously we outlined Aristotle's enormous contributions in establishing logic as a formal field of inquiry. So what happened after that? How did the minds that followed, many directly in his lineage, develop this field further? What is...

Psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes how he and his colleagues were motivated to apply our contemporary neuroscientific understanding detailing the different functions produced by the top of the brain and the bottom of the brain to a...

This week, we’re talking about Natural Language Processing! Stay tuned for the end of the video for a lot of bloopers :)

Can Language Models Lie? It's complicated, but we're teaching them to do better.

Google LaMDA AI is Not Sentient - Here's Why

Actually though, if Boston Dynamics wants to let me compete in a deadlift-off against their robots, I'm 100% in.

As new as it might seem, people have been thinking about AI since the Middle Ages! Join me on a rapid-fire journey through the history of artificial intelligence from 1919-2019.

Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes how the act of vision is much more complicated than we might naively assume, as 30% of our brains is dedicated to vision processing.

Emory University anthropologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal relates how many aspects of his intuitively optimistic view of human and animal nature became confirmed through his many concrete experimental tests.

Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes his long-standing interest in trying to penetrate the consciousness and feeling of animals, his optimism at the growing societal realisation of our animal nature, and the...

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes a current view in the linguistics community that our language systems evolve in response to our environments.

Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht describes her view that “the feeling of meaning is sufficient to the definition of meaning” and how we often need to consciously allow our culture and community to help provide meaning for us.

Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill) addresses a fundamental puzzle: What evolutionary role might positive emotions play?

This video will help students understand the critical role of comparative figurative language (metaphor, simile, and personification) in establishing theme in poetry.

This video is answering the question of are mermaids magical.

Let's learn about anthropogenic space weather!