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Thinking about math in terms of literacy - not levels
Algebra is a core subject for U.S. high school students. But should it be? Author Andrew Hacker believes we should reconsider how math is taught: only 5 percent of the American workforce actually uses math beyond arithmetic, though...
Curated Video
SAfrica trains local rangers to combat poaching
At the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) on the edge of the Greater Kruger National Park, a new government-funded job programme is training 119 "historically disadvantaged" young men and women to become field rangers and guides to...
Curated Video
WRAP Abbas, ministers, militants, Hezbollah, bomber''s family
Tel Aviv, Israel
1. Pan right across area of bombing, police cars
Ramallah, West Bank
8. Abbas convoy passing
9. Wide Abbas talking to press
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian leader
"There is a third party that wants to...
Curated Video
British PM visits township
1. Wide of British Prime Minister Tony Blair walking across road to bridge
2. Various of Blair looking at river bed
3. Armed guard
4. Various of Blair on bridge
5. Various of Blair planting tree
6. Blair standing by podium, being...
Curated Video
AFGHANISTAN: LAND MINES - REMNANTS OF WAR CONTINUE TO TAKE LIVES
Farsi/Nat
For years now, rival factions in Afghanistan have been fighting a civil war - a war which continues to claim lives.
Possibly the greatest number of deaths and injuries are caused by the war's most lethal legacy - the estimated...
Curated Video
President Barack Obama welcomed the Boston Red Sox at the White House to celebrate their World Series title. After slugger David Ortiz presented a Red Sox jersey to Obama, the pair took a selfie. (April 1)
President Barack Obama welcomed the World Series winning Red Sox to the White House on Tuesday.
Obama said the teams latest championship meant more the the city after the Boston Marathon bombings.
"Not just because they went from worst...
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Three-dimensional linear transformations: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 5 of 15
How to think of 3x3 matrices as transforming 3d space
Crash Course
Altered States - Crash Course Psychology
You may think you know all about hypnosis from the movies. Zoolander, The Manchurian Candidate, etc... but there's a whole lot more going on. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank tells us about some of the many altered states...
Crash Course
Meet Your Master: Getting to Know Your Brain - Crash Course Psychology
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, we get to meet the brain. Hank talks us through the Central Nervous System, the ancestral structures of the brain, the limbic system, and new structures of the brain. Plus, what does Phineas...
Crash Course
Rorschach & Freudians: Crash Course Psychology
Herman Rorschach (no, not the guy from Watchmen) came up with the eponymous tests, but what do they mean? Why are we so fascinated with them despite the division in the world of Psychology? Hank tackles these topics as we take a closer...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Chris Anderson (TED): Questions no one knows the answers to
TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?
Crash Course
The Mind/Brain: Crash Course History of Science
Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. But exactly what kind of stuff is the human brain? That one was—and is—tricky. The brain sciences—with experiments and therapies tied to biological theories of...
TED Talks
The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive | Niro Sivanathan
What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of...
TED Talks
TED: How China is changing the future of shopping | Angela Wang
China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million Chinese consumers -- the equivalent of the combined populations of the uS, uK and...
TED Talks
TED: Everyday objects, tragic histories | Ziyah Gafić
Ziyah Gafić photographs everyday objects—watches, shoes, glasses. But these images are deceptively simple; the items in them have been exhumed from the mass graves of the Bosnian War. Gafić, a TED Fellow and Sarajevo native, is...
SciShow
Nobel News Capturing Photons Cloning Frogs
Hank brings us the news about the new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, what they won for and what it all means.
TED Talks
TED: A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw
How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining tools from memory science and artificial intelligence to change how we report workplace...
Crash Course
Apocalypse Now: Crash Course Film Criticism
Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" is a different kind of war movie. It's a multi-genre film that maybe says more about human psychology than it does about war. In this episode of Crash Course Film Criticism, Michael Aranda takes us...
SciShow
The New Era of Negative Campaigns
Negative campaigns—or campaigns that work by painting opposing candidates in a negative light—have been used for decades. But today, thanks to information that can be gained from social media, these campaigns may be even more effective...
TED Talks
Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind
MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show Design and the Elastic Mind -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.
TED Talks
TED: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person | Dolly Chugh
What if your attachment to being a "good" person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person? In this accessible talk, social psychologist Dolly Chugh explains the puzzling psychology of ethical behavior -- like why it's...
TED Talks
TED: Your words may predict your future mental health | Mariano Sigman
Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how...
TED Talks
TED: An Olympic champion's unwavering advocacy for mothers in sports | Allyson Felix
Getting pregnant as a track and field athlete is often called the "kiss of death" -- a sign your athletic career will soon end. Olympic champion, entrepreneur and proud mother Allyson Felix thinks it shouldn't be that way. She tells the...
TED Talks
Chris Anderson (TED): Questions no one knows the answers to
TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?