The Guardian
The Chagos Islanders taking back their birthplace from the British: 'They uprooted us'
More than 50 years after they were forcibly removed from their homes, former residents of Britain’s last colony in Africa are challenging the UK’s claim to the archipelago. After a five-day journey across the ocean, from which they...
The Guardian
RIP SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK's mental health crisis
One morning in June 2020, graffiti reading RIP SENI appeared emblazoned across a public artwork outside the Bethlem royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital in south London. The spray-painted letters drew attention to Olaseni Lewis, a...
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Why do we connect batteries?
Why do we connect batteries? find out here with series and parallel batteries as well as battery life calculations.
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Battery Life Calculator - How long will it power a circuit? mah
How long will a battery power a circuit? Learn how to estimate battery life in this video.
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What is Schizophrenia? - It's More Than Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is the most serious disorder we have in psychiatry. It is much more than hallucinations. It’s an illness where the person’s main problem is being psychotic. With psychosis, you are not able to tell what’s real and what’s...
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What is the difference between Psychosis and Psychopathy?
Psychosis vs psychopathy, the words sound similar, are they the same thing? I think this is a common question and people have a misconception that the two concepts are similar. But they are completely unrelated. Psychosis is a mental...
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What Is Psychosis like and How Do You Get It?
What is psychosis like for the people who experience it? In this video I discuss the symptoms of psychosis. Psychosis is the inability to determine reality from non-reality. It is a set of symptoms that can appear in many different...
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Toxic Positivity: The Reality of Suppressing Emotions
What is toxic positivity? It's the idea that you have to always be happy, no matter what. If you're not, then something must be wrong with you. This video dives into how this mindset actually causes more harm than good and why it's...
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SkillSprints: Virus Prevention
Viruses are not just annoying-- They're annoying. Learn to prevent and effectively deal with computer viruses in this video.
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Author’s Purpose Types
Author’s Purpose Types explores the three types of author’s purpose: to entertain, to persuade, and to inform.
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Is ADHD Real? – Difference in the ADHD Brain
Is ADHD real? ADHD is a real brain problem that can be helped. That's what I'm going to to talk about this video. ADD and ADHD are the same disorder, the official name is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. People tend to say "ADD"...
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Is Hearing Voices Ever Normal?
In general when we hear that someone is hearing voices, we believe that the person is experiencing a psychotic episode. Psychosis is a break from reality and not knowing what’s real and not real. Usually hearing voices, also called...
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A Reason to Get your Chocolate Fix -- A Proven Stress Reducer
Does chocolate cure stress? Recent research suggests this is so. The antioxidants in dark chocolate help reduce stress as well as help fight disease. Here are some recommendations as to how much chocolate one should eat to reduce stress.
Learn German with Herr Antrim
Subjunctive 2 with "hätten" & "wären" - 3 Minuten Deutsch #68 - Deutsch lernen
Learn about the German subjunctive mood (Konjunktiv 2) as it is used with "hätten" and "wären" in this short German grammar lesson.
The Business Professor
Emotional Labor
What is Emotional Labor? Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. More specifically, workers are expected to regulate their personas during interactions with...
Debunked
How Dangerous Is A Bullet Shot In The Air?
Join us as we explore the physics behind 'What goes up must come down!
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Scientific Credibility
Business school professor Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan, describes how most Americans do trust science and that, eventually, if scientists remain diligent about communicating their findings about climate change, most people will...
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The Relevance of Models
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how his invocation of the model of religious economy for Islam gives benefits to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
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Religion and Science
Renowned polymath Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) gives his views on religion, science and community.
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Democracy and Rights
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) highlights the trade-off we must make between a democratic process and fundamental rights.
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Creating the Social World
UC Berkeley political theorist Mark Bevir describes his belief that, rather than passively describing the world around us, social science actually plays a key role in creating our social world.
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Nonfiction
This video discusses the nonfiction genre as well as qualities, types of pieces, and characteristics of the genre.
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Building Better Models
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) describes how we can use philosophical understanding to help build better, more rigorous models in social science.
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Elite Capture and Societal Inequality
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes two concerns that were as important in ancient Athens are they are today: elite capture and political inequality.