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.
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.
Learned Helplessness
AdultsEducationSelfPsychology...Learned helplessness can prevent people from achieving their goals, something I've experienced first hand.
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.
An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
AdultsBiotechnologyDisabilityTechnology...Students at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids.
Why Vaccines Work
AdultsHealthHistoryScience...As more and more parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children or are vaccinating them later, diseases like measles are making a comeback. Are vaccines safe? How do they work? This week we look at why are people afraid of something that has saved so many lives, and look at the history and science of vaccines.
How folding paper can get you to the moon - Adrian Paenza
AdultsMathSpaceScience...Can folding a piece of paper 45 times get you to the moon? By seeing what happens when folding just one piece of paper, we see the unbelievable potential of exponential growth. This lesson will leave you wanting to grab a piece of paper to see how many times you can fold it!
There's No Such Thing As Cold
AdultsPhysicsWeatherScience...You've felt cold before. Sometimes it's cold outside. But what if I told you that "cold" isn't real? There's no substance or quantity called "cold" in science. We can't measure the amount of "cold" in something. Instead it's about what's NOT there. In this week's video, learn the difference between heat and temperature, why a wind makes us feel colder, and what it's like to live as a mass of jiggling atoms. This is the physics of cold.
Are Video Games the future of Education?
AdultsEducationGamingTechnology...Imagine a school where playing video games is encouraged during classes and may even replace exams. A new educational programme uses SimCity to test children on vital problem-solving skills.
What is dyslexia?
AdultsLanguageScienceEducation...Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn't always the same. This difficulty in processing language exists along a spectrum -- one that doesn't necessarily fit with labels like "normal" and "defective." Kelli Sandman-Hurley urges us to think again about dyslexic brain function and to celebrate the neurodiversity of the human brain.
Myths and misconceptions about evolution
AdultsEnvironmentHistoryWorld...How does evolution really work? Actually, not how some of our common evolutionary metaphors would have us believe. For instance, it's species, not individual organisms, that adapt to produce evolution, and genes don't "want" to be passed on -- a gene can't want anything at all! Alex Gendler sets the record straight on the finer points of evolution.