William McKinley: Annex Like the Dickens (1897 - 1901)
William McKinley ushered in a new era for America, one of imperialism that would foreshadow things to come. He was also the third president to be assassinated. He manufactured a reason to go to war, he strengthened the government, hey this is sounding like some 20th century stuff! Let's se
From playlist American History
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Four-Term Phenomenon (1933 – 1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a colossal figure in American History. He led the nation through the Great Depression, as well as World War II. He is the only president to be elected four times, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest presidents of all time, along with Washington and Li
From playlist American History
Keynote Speaker - Victor Rios, PhD
A sociological perspective on policing in minority communities. Victor Rios, PhD, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara
From playlist Stanford Medicine
Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War Hero (1869 - 1877)
Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the general of the Union Army that brought an end to the Civil War, by getting General Robert E. Lee to surrender. But he also served as a two-term president, and he wasn't a bad one at that. He has been accused of considerable corruption, but he also did
From playlist American History
Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann's science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann's groundbreaking role as a
From playlist Bicentennial Voices
I needed to anonymize my phone. This how I did it. Support independent research and analysis by joining my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone I can’t trust anyone with my data. When I use a phone with a Google Account or Apple ID, these companies are by default going to b
From playlist The state of surveillance
Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity
In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory. Read about the second episode of the new season here:
From playlist In Theory
Massimo Ferri interviewed by Claudia Landi (April 21, 2021)
Massimo Ferri interviewed by Claudia Landi (April 21, 2021) For more on the interview series, along with the advertisement posters, please see https://sites.google.com/view/aatrn/interviews
From playlist AATRN Interviews
William Lane Craig Retrospective III: Divine Foreknowledge | Closer To Truth Chats
Analytic philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig discusses God’s Omniscience, God knowing everything, and reconciling God knowing the future with human free will. We look back on his 1987 book, The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom.
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Relationships between scientific ideas in a text | Reading | Khan Academy
Keep going! Check out the next lesson and practice what you’re learning: https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/cc-2nd-reading-vocab/xfb4fc0bf01437792:cc-2nd-the-moon/xfb4fc0bf01437792:close-reading-informational-text/v/interpreting-text-features-reading David illustrates how ideas connect to ea
From playlist ELA 2020 Videos
Chester A. Arthur: Turning Tables (1881 - 1885)
Chester Arthur took office upon the assassination of James Garfield. Garfield was liked, but Arthur was not, as people didn't trust his big shot New York stylings. But he surprised them all by doing a lot of good during his time in office, pushing issues of reform. Even still, it wasn't en
From playlist American History
Universality in sandpile models by Pradeep Kumar Mohanty
PROGRAM :UNIVERSALITY IN RANDOM STRUCTURES: INTERFACES, MATRICES, SANDPILES ORGANIZERS :Arvind Ayyer, Riddhipratim Basu and Manjunath Krishnapur DATE & TIME :14 January 2019 to 08 February 2019 VENUE :Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bangalore The primary focus of this program will be on the
From playlist Universality in random structures: Interfaces, Matrices, Sandpiles - 2019
JPL and the Space Age: The American Rocketeer
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is widely known for its trailblazing role in space exploration, and the “JPL and the Space Age” documentary series invites viewers to relive those early adventures through rare archival footage and interviews with many of JPL’s pioneering engineers and scie
From playlist JPL and the Space Age
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Tragic Figure (1963 – 1969)
Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a large, imposing man, who had been an influential Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. And as President, it is difficult to say whether he is remembered better for his incredible domestic acc
From playlist American History
Why venture capital can be a trap for entrepreneurs | Nathalie Molina Niño | Big Think
Why venture capital can be a trap for entrepreneurs Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venture capitalism is g
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OHM2013: Drugs bad? What does science say?
For more information visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_web To download the video visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_down Playlist OHM 2013: http://bit.ly/OHM13_pl Speaker: Amanda Fielding Drugs are bad for you so that's why they are banned in society and so we're stuck with a 'war on drugs'. But are dr
From playlist OHM 2013
Peter van Inwagen - Is God Perfect?
What does it mean for God to be perfect? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Perfectly free? Did God create the 'perfect world'? That'd be hard to believe. Must God, in order to be God, be the greatest conceivable Being? Is there a difference between what is concei
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Episode 053: False Memories AND a Trip to Mars? Sign Me Up! Total Recall (1990)
Join Alex as he discusses a timeless sci-fi classic from Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall (1990) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802)! Of course, this movie is all about how you might implant memories into a person, giving them the experience without the experience!
From playlist CinemaPsych Podcast
Portraits of Power - Franco - Caudillo of Spain Narrated by Henry Fonda The Spanish general and dictator Francisco Franco (actually Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo). He was born on 04/12/1892 in Ferrol, Galicia, and died on 20.11.1975 in Madrid. In
From playlist Portraits of Power - Those who shaped the Twentieth Century