Curated Video
Blondes Exhibition
PLEASE NOTE: Images must be credited as follows: 'By Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London'
1. Various Photographs
2. SOT Joanna Pitman, Author, 'On Blondes': "Really it was a theme set by Aphrodite as the blonde signifying a...
Curated Video
Us Weekly Entertainment Director on why we're so fascinated with the Jolie Pitt split
SHOTLIST:RESTRICTION SUMMARY:FILM CLIPS ARE CLEARED FOR MEDIA BROADCAST AND/OR INTERNET USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS STORY ONLY. NO RE-SALE. NO ARCHIVE. AP EntertainmentLos Angeles, 21 Jan. 20121. Various of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
Curated Video
FW de Klerk says Thatcher played role in promoting change in South Africa
1. Frederik Willem de Klerk, former president of South Africa, arriving for news conference
2. Mid of journalists
3. Pan from cameramen to De Klerk
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederik Willem de Klerk, former South African...
Curated Video
YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: MASS OPPOSITION RALLY
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Students in Belgrade staged a mock celebration of President Slobodan Milosevic's 58th birthday on Friday.
A cake representing Yugoslavia was cut into pieces and handed round to demonstrators to symbolise the break up...
Crash Course
Home Video: Crash Course Film History
As the New Hollywood gained steam in the late 70s and early 80s, another revenue stream opened its doors: home video. From Betamax to Laserdisc to Bluray to streaming services, home video revolutionized how we ingest movies. In this...
3Blue1Brown
Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep learning, chapter 2
An overview of gradient descent in the context of neural networks. This is a method used widely throughout machine learning for optimizing how a computer performs on certain tasks.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis
Computers can beat us in board games, transcribe speech, and instantly identify almost any object. But will future robots go further by learning to figure out what we're feeling? Kostas Karpouzis imagines a future where machines and the...
3Blue1Brown
But what *is* a Neural Network? | Chapter 1, deep learning
An overview of what a neural network is, introduced in the context of recognizing hand-written digits.
SciShow
This is NOT What Evolution Looks Like
Hank explains where that over-simplified image of evolution comes from and what it is actually supposed to mean.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs
Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actually are. But how do they work? Nathan S. Jacobs walks us through a few common optical illusions and explains what these tricks...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Iseult Gillespie: Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend
In 1925, Frida Kahlo was on her way home from school in Mexico City when the bus she was riding collided with a streetcar. She suffered near-fatal injuries and her disability became a major theme in her paintings. Over the course of her...
SciShow
These AIs Are About to Revolutionize Biology
Even though proteins are fundamental to life, it’s hard to predict what they look like. But two independent groups announced that they’d cracked it, and it’s all thanks to some seriously clever artificial intelligence.
3Blue1Brown
But what is a Neural Network? | Deep learning, chapter 1
An overview of what a neural network is, introduced in the context of recognizing hand-written digits.
SciShow
The Surprising Benefits of Watching Cute Cat Videos
If you are feeling stuck, you might get benefits to be better at the task by watching cute animal videos.
TED Talks
TED: The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging | Lei Li
Could we use the energy from light and sound to detect disease? TED Fellow Lei Li shares the exciting promise of photoacoustic imaging: an affordable, painless and accurate method of converting light into sound in order to create...
SciShow
Heat-Seekers: Harnessing the Infrared Senses of Animals
These animals can detect heat through some fascinating biological mechanisms, and they are proving to be boons to the scientific community.
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
SciShow
What Do Dogs See When They Watch TV?
Some dogs just seem to love watching TV. But are they really watching what we see?
TED Talks
Michelle Borkin: Can astronomers help doctors?
How do you measure a nebula? With a brain scan. In this talk, TED Fellow Michelle Borkin shows why collaboration between doctors and astronomers can lead to surprising discoveries.
Crash Course
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines: Crash Course Theater #16
This week we're continuing our discussion of William Shakespeare and looking at his comedies and romances. As well as something called problem plays. Some of his plays, they had problems. We'll also put on pants, escape to forest, and...
SciShow
This Worm-y Critter Is (Probably) Our Oldest Ancestor | SciShow News
Newly described wormlike fossils dating back over half a billion years might be our oldest ancestors, and researchers have mapped and visualized the physical structure of the microscopic communities growing on human tongues!
TED Talks
TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle
NASA's Dragonfly -- a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body -- is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist...
TED Talks
TED: How computers are learning to be creative | Blaise Aguera y Arcas
We're on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity -- and it's not human. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception and distributed learning. In this captivating...