Instructional Video10:50
TED Talks

The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive | Niro Sivanathan

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video13:38
TED Talks

TED: How China is changing the future of shopping | Angela Wang

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:28
TED Talks

TED: Everyday objects, tragic histories | Ziyah Gafić

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:49
SciShow

Nobel News Capturing Photons Cloning Frogs

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings us the news about the new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, what they won for and what it all means.
Instructional Video9:41
TED Talks

TED: A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video11:14
Crash Course

Apocalypse Now: Crash Course Film Criticism

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The New Era of Negative Campaigns

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video17:32
TED Talks

Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video11:48
TED Talks

TED: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person | Dolly Chugh

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video12:14
TED Talks

TED: Your words may predict your future mental health | Mariano Sigman

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video9:18
TED Talks

TED: An Olympic champion's unwavering advocacy for mothers in sports | Allyson Felix

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video12:07
TED Talks

Chris Anderson (TED): Questions no one knows the answers to

12th - Higher Ed
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?
Instructional Video5:38
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Ideasthesia: How do ideas feel? - Danko Nikoli_

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses provide data to our brain, which then translates those senses into the appropriate mental phenomena: light into visual images, air vibrations into auditory...
Instructional Video17:24
TED Talks

Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

12th - Higher Ed
We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says...
Instructional Video15:42
Instructional Video4:42
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.” -- Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into...
Instructional Video18:38
TED Talks

Liz Coleman: A call to reinvent liberal arts education

12th - Higher Ed
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that...
Instructional Video11:22
Crash Course

Getting Help - Psychotherapy: Crash Course Psychology

12th - Higher Ed
So, you know you'd like to get help with some problematic behavior (like fear of flying). What do you do? Who can you go to for help? Once you've gone, what can you expect? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank...
Instructional Video5:05
TED Talks

Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act

12th - Higher Ed
In some parts of the world, half of the women lack basic reading and writing skills. The reasons vary, but in many cases, literacy isn't valued by fathers, husbands, even mothers. Photographer and TED Fellow Laura Boushnak traveled to...
Instructional Video10:14
TED Talks

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

12th - Higher Ed
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show...
Instructional Video4:59
SciShow

Are Fandoms Good or Unhealthy Obsessions?

12th - Higher Ed
Internet fandoms can get... sort of intense, but is an unwavering devotion to your Hogwarts house an unhealthy fixation or a way to reach out to others and engage in the world around you?
Instructional Video3:17
SciShow

What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank answers a SciShow viewer's most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space. Would your head really explode?
Instructional Video9:39
Crash Course

What Is God Like?: Crash Course Philosophy

12th - Higher Ed
Today we are moving on from the existence of God to look at the philosophical debate surrounding the traditional divine attributes - omnipotence, omniscience, omnitemporality, and omnibenevolence. We are exploring the puzzles that these...
Instructional Video4:33
PBS

Are Olympic Competitors Geniuses?

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone is obsessed with the Olympics right now, watching these geniuses push the boundaries of their field. Wait, did we say GENIUSES? Yes! We normally associate the word "genius" with intellectual accomplishments, but athletes are...