Researchers Use Google Glass for Autistic Kids
AdultsDisabilityTechnologyMental Health...Stanford researchers are using Google Glass to help autistic children analyze faces in real time to interpret facial expressions. Google stopped producing the headset last year but the device has found new life among medical researchers.
How playing sports benefits your body and your brain
AdultsHealthMental HealthSports...The victory of the underdog. The last minute penalty shot that wins the tournament. The training montage. Many people love to glorify victory on the field, cheer for teams, and play sports. But should we be obsessed with sports?
Introducing Project Bloks
AdultsSoftware EngineeringStartupsTechnology...Project Bloks is a research project with the aim of creating an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids.
Why Anecdotes Trump Data
AdultsData SciencePsychologyEducationA story is worth a thousand data points.
The Specious Present
AdultsHumanNeurosciencePsychology...What is the specious present? And how do our brains perceive time?
The Speed of Life Veritasium
AdultsPsychologySocietyScience...Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down?
This Will Revolutionize Education
AdultsEducationTechnologyMany technologies have promised to revolutionize education, but so far none has. With that in mind, what could revolutionize education?
Effective Communication
AdultsEducationSocietySelf...Learning how to better communicate and interact with others can really help to improve your life -- from ensuring you enjoy parties more to turning you into a roaring success magnet. Bestselling author of How to Succeed with People Paul McGee takes us through a host of different situations and explains how to deal with other people and get the best out of them.
Learned Helplessness
AdultsEducationSelfPsychology...Learned helplessness can prevent people from achieving their goals, something I've experienced first hand.
Masterpiece for Osmo
AdultsArtSoftware EngineeringTechnology...Introducing Masterpiece, an Osmo app that will allow you to supercharge your drawing skills! Pick any image from the camera, curated gallery, or integrated web search and Masterpiece will transform it into easy-to-follow lines and help you draw it to perfection. You can then share a magical time-lapse video of your creation with your friends and family.
Just how small is an atom?
AdultsPhysicsScienceEducationJust how small are atoms? And what's inside them? The answers turn out to be astounding, even for those who think they know. This fast-paced animation uses spectacular metaphors (imagine a blueberry the size of a football stadium!) to give a visceral sense of the building blocks that make our world.
Comma story - Terisa Folaron
AdultsHistoryLanguageGrammar...It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade.
How To Fly A Spaceship
AdultsSpaceTechnologyTransportation...Learn How To Fly A Spaceship To The Space Station With A Retired Astronaut!