TED Talks
TED: Why Indigenous forest guardianship is crucial to climate action | Nonette Royo
Indigenous communities have looked after their ancestral forests for millennia, cultivating immense amounts of knowledge on how to protect, nourish and heal these vital environments. Today, 470 million Indigenous people care for and...
Bozeman Science
Epigenetics
Paul Andersen explains the concepts of genetics. He starts with a brief discussion of the nature vs. nurture debate and shows how epigenetics blurs this distinction. He explains how differentiation of cell types results from the...
Curated Video
Dogs and Wolves: Nature or Nurture?
A unique experiment investigates what happens to wolf cub's wild nature if they are raised in a domestic environment. Will nature or nurture win out? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Wolves and dogs are 99.8% genetically...
Curated Video
The Genius Sperm Bank: Part 2
Meet the grown-up designer babies created by Robert Graham's Genius Sperm Bank in 1970s America. Were any geniuses? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Germinal choice was introduced by millionaire Robert Graham. Children born of...
Curated Video
Breeding silver foxes
In the 1960s, silver foxes were bred in Siberia as an experiment in behaviour. What did this experiment show? Life processes - Living processes - Reproduction Learning Points Acquired characteristics are a result of environment and...
Curated Video
Acquired characteristics
You might be born with some characteristics, but there are others that have to be acquired. Life processes - Living processes - Reproduction Learning Points Acquired characteristics are a result of environment and lifestyle. Inherited...
Curated Video
An Exceptional Case
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes her work on studying those with so-called Williams syndrome, in an effort to rigorously examine the plasticity of the brain.
Seven Dimensions
Unite Your Team
This video is designed to help motivate a group of people to work together effectively. Differences of opinion and different ways of working can undermine unity and team success. Working together builds enthusiasm, familiarity and trust....
Curated Video
Nature-Nurture
This film outlines the broad similarities and differences between ""nature"" and ""nurture"" approaches to understanding human behaviour. It frames the debate around overtly aggressive behaviour illustrated by two classic applications:...
Curated Video
The Triumph of the Entrepreneur and the Power of Helping Others
Cathy's Triumph part 4/4: The video features an interview with Cathy Hughes, a successful entrepreneur in the media industry. She shares her journey of how she started her career and how her company has grown over the years. She also...
Curated Video
The Nature-Nurture Debate: Exploring the Complex Interplay of Genetics and Environment
This video explores the complex interplay between nature and nurture in shaping traits such as intelligence and height. It discusses the concept of heritability and how it changes depending on environmental factors, and touches on the...
ShortCutsTv
The Birth of Epigenetics: the Agouti Mouse Study
Could you really be what your mother ate? A groundbreaking experiment by Jirtle & Waterland provided the first scientific evidence of the influence of maternal diet on offspring health. It was not only the first demonstrated of foetal...
FuseSchool
Nature vs Nurture
CREDITS Animation & Design: Waldi Apollis Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Bethan Parry Have you noticed that you're different to your relations, parents or carers, your next-door neighbour, the kid who lives across the street and...
ShortCutsTv
Nature-Nurture
Is human behaviour explained primarily by what we inherit or what we experience? This film explores this key issue by looking at the example of aggression.
Press Association
Starmer holds shadow cabinet meeting at St George's Park
Young people deserve a chance to show what they are capable of, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he pledged to promote talent on a visit to St George’s Park on Monday. The Labour leader praised The FA’s national football centre in the...
Press Association
Young people are not getting the opportunities they need under Tories, says Starmer.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer holds a shadow cabinet meeting at St George's Park and pledges to promote talent and "champion success". During his visit to the home of England’s football teams in Burton-on-Trent ahead of St George’s Day,...
Bloomberg
Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo on Closing the Poverty Gap
Aug.10 -- Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, professor of poverty alleviation and development economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of "Good Economics for Hard Times," discusses her studies about poverty in the...
Curated Video
PHILIPPINES: PROTESTS AGAINST PRESIDENT'S PLANS FOR SECOND TERM
English/Nat
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Manila on Sunday to protest against possible constitution changes that would allow President Fidel Ramos to serve a second term.
Barricades were set up on roads leading to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nature vs. Nurture Debate
This lesson will compare and contrast the long-debated nature versus nuture controversy as causes for behavior and personality. .