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Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict

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Scientists are trying to figure out if they can predict big earthquakes by simulating small quakes in labs and studying big quakes under the ocean. Thanks to the University of Rhode Island for sponsoring this video.

Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

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Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

What we're learning from online education

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Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

4 Online Education Trends for 2014

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Learning on the go, learning at the speed of need, gamification and videos are the leaders in new educations trends of 2014.

Write a Letter to the Future

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Students write an email to their future selves and it is delivered in the future.

Significant Decision to Apply New Learning Trends in Education

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Article by Claudia Glab-Link

Redefining the Role of the Teacher: it's a Multifaceted Profession

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Judith Taack takes a closer look at what being an educator really means. In the article she explains how teaching should be considered a trade rather than a profession and she addresses how culture has changed and so should teaching.

Highlights from Google's First Online Education Conference

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Google's first ever online education conference started with the simple question, "How do we prepare the students of today to be the digital leaders of tomorrow?" A series of presenters offered their answers to that very question.

Does The Current Education Model Make The Grade?

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A panel of experts discuss issues with education and what the future may hold. Watch the debate and have your own discussions with colleagues.

What Does the Next- Generation School Library Look Like?

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What do libraries need to be doing to bring people back through their doors? With so many alternative ways to find information, libraries are now adapting and adding non-traditional elements to expand their offerings.

Robot Tutors

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Virtual teaching, is it here? With robots acting as tutors and class assistants the days of TA's and undergrads answering emails and questions from students may be coming to an end. Meet Watson, a robot that is able to answer emails and questions.

What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

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If you enjoy this lesson, we highly recommend reading "The World Without Us."

Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand?

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Are We Doomed? Boston Dynamics' Unsettling Robot Dog SpotMini Can Now Open The Door

The Plane of the Future

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What's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?

Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

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Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.

China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2

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South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.

Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1

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Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.

Stretchy Batteries Are Coming... Here's How They Work

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Researchers have developed a way to make a battery and its casing stretchy, enabling future advancements in wearable electronics.

Four inventions that might change the world

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Tiny lab-grown organs. A spongy cloth that absorbs oil spills. Sure, why not. These are some of the finalists for the European Inventor Award.

Moore's Law Is Ending... So, What's Next?

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Scientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.