Who Were Artists in Ancient Egypt and What Audiences Did They Address? - John Baines
John Baines Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford; Member, School of Historical Studies, 2009-10 October 21, 2009 Ancient Egyptian artworks were ...
Institute for Advanced Study
Is Alien ‘Life’ Weirder Than We Imagine: Who Is Out There?
If we want to discover alien life out there in the universe, we first need to figure out where to look—and what we're even looking for. Will it be biological like us?
World Science Festival
The Perilous State of the University: Jonathan Haidt & Jordan B Peterson
I recently traveled to New York University to talk with Dr. Jonathan Haidt about, among other things, disgust, purity, fear and belief; the perilous state of the ...
Jordan B Peterson
The Art of Memoir Writing
Everyone has a story to tell, but the craft of memoir writing does not come easily to all writers. Whether writing a book or a blog, a lot goes into perfecting this ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
The Search for Life Beyond Earth and Science of the SETI Institute - Bill Diamond (SETI Taks 2016)
The SETI Institute is a 32 year-old non-profit research institute whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the nature of life in the universe.
SETI Institute
How Bill Gates reads books
Bill Gates reads about 50 books a year, which breaks down to about one a week. Gates told us the four habits and hacks he does to get the most out of his ...
Quartz
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown tells the story of the building of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope – a revolutionary observatory, 100 times more powerful and the ...
Northrop Grumman
How Many Are Out There? Estimating Intelligent Life in Our Galaxy with Dr. Chris Conselice
Could there be 36 Alien Civilizations in our Galaxy? Chris Conselice and his co-author Tom Westby present a new cosmic perspective on the search for life and ...
Event Horizon
The God Cells | Medical Documentary | Reel Truth #Science
A documentary by Eric Merola For more awe inspiring documentaries, subscribe to our channel: ...
Reel Truth Science Documentaries
King Arthur's Britain - Part 3 of 3 (Roman Britain Documentary) | Timeline
In the last programme of the series Francis focuses his attention on the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Sheep-farming archaeologist, Francis Pryor, presents a brand ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Taming the swarm - Collective Artificial Intelligence | Radhika Nagpal | TEDxBermuda
Radhika is a professor at Harvard and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She studies collective behavior in ...
TEDx Talks
The Nuts and Bolts of Better Brains: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity
What if your brain at 77 were as plastic as it was at 7? What if you could learn Mandarin with the ease of a toddler or play Rachmaninoff without breaking a sweat ...
World Science Festival
SFI Community Event - The Complexity of Economics
Why is there such a gap between economic theory and the reality of our lived experience? Mainstream economics often presumes that people make rational ...
Santa Fe Institute
Pynchon’s Paranoid California with Michael Mark Cohen
Pynchon's Paranoid California Michael Mark Cohen, Professor of African American Studies Wed., March 1, 12-1:30 pm Thinking Through the Arts and Design at ...
Berkeley Arts + Design
Acquiring Genomes, Dr. Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts and Dorion Sagan
Ernst Mayr: “Much advance in evolution is due to the establishment of consortia between two organisms with entirely different genomes. Ecologists have barely ...
Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series
Black Feminist Theory, Cultural Work, and Disrespectability
How has respectability traveled beyond the field of black women's history to black women's studies and black feminist theory? How have historians mobilized ...
Brown University
William Labov
Justice as a Linguistic Matter Português: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h8bdDxnuA Libras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHOtv6f5wk The study of ...
Abralin
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein - Reason, Fiction and Faith
Philosophical novelist Rebecca Goldstein and cognitive theorist Steven Pinker in conversation on literature, science and religion.
The RSA
The Neuroscience of Intelligence: Dr. Richard Haier
There is almost nothing more important to understand about people than intelligence. It can be measured more accurately than anything else in the social ...
Jordan B Peterson
Realistic Strategies for Preventing Dementia; Frank Longo, MD, PhD
Dr. Frank Longo, MD, PhD, a world-renowned expert in neurodegenerative disorders, dispels some of the myths around cognitive decline and shares the latest ...
Stanford Medicine
Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), in collaboration with the Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series, welcomed Professor Steven Pinker ...
Harvard University
Story of Manhattan | Charles Hemstreet | *Non-fiction, History | Audiobook Full | English | 1/2
Audible Summer Promo: https://amzn.to/2B8RhYz It helps us get our channel up and running with ease: https://bit.ly/TubePricelessAudiobooks What jobs can I ...
Priceless Audiobooks
2017 Personality 06: Jean Piaget & Constructivism
In this lecture, I talk about the great developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, who was interested, above all, in the way that knowledge is generated and ...
Jordan B Peterson
Modernist Prose and Fiction
Prof.Merin Simi Raj Dept. Of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Madras.
History of English Language and Literature
Our Place in the Stars
The video referenced in the lecture may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8 Our Place in the Stars Amaya Moro-Martin of the ...
Hubble Space Telescope
Henry Giroux Between Orwell and Huxley in the Age of New Authoritarianism
Between Orwell and Huxley in the Age of the New Authoritarianism: a Challenge for Public Intellectuals A talk by Dr. Henry Giroux, Professor, Department of ...
McMaster Humanities
The 12th Century Renaissance (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the changes in the intellectual world of Western Europe in the 12th Century, and their origins. This was a time of Crusades, the ...
BBC Podcasts
The Canadians: Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye, literary critic, university professor, editor (born at Sherbrooke, Québec 14 July 1912; died at Toronto 23 January 1991). A professor of ...
Historica Canada
Neuroethics: Addressing the Good, Bad and the Ugly - Application of Neuroscience
The field of neuroscience is badly misused, which calls for a new field to monitor when research is misapplied and misappropriated. Brain sciences are being ...
American Psychological Association
Philip Kim - Materials in 2-dimension and beyond: platform for novel electronics and optoelectronics
Philip Kim is an experimental condensed matter physicist. The focus of Kim's group's research is the mesoscopic investigation of various physical phenomena in ...
Institute for Quantum Computing
2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight offers a number of approaches to the question of southern distinctiveness. The lecture offers a ...
YaleCourses
The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"
Historical video about artificial intelligence and how the AI winter came in the 1970s This is the full video of the Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence, ...
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24
Do we really have free will? Today Hank explores possible answers to that question, explaining theories like libertarian free will and it's counterpoint, hard ...
CrashCourse
Intertextuality,Kristeva and the study of Postmodern Texts
Postmodernism in Literature - IITM
Visual Language Is Language: The Importance of Reading the Pictures in Visual Culture
MFA Photography, Video and Related Media presents Michael Shaw, publisher of Reading the Pictures, discussing how the publication analyzes news and ...
School of Visual Arts
JAMES SMITH | How To Design A Life You Love | Modern Wisdom Podcast #205
James Smith is a PT and not a life coach. Following your default desires and social norms is a surefire route to misery, yet we're given very little guidance on ...
Modern Wisdom
The Vikings! - Crash Course World History 224
In which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash Course. So what's the deal ...
CrashCourse
Understanding Disaster, Part 2: Akira and the Postmodern Apocalypse
IMPORTANT: It has come to my attention that this is unavailable on mobile. My sincerest apologies, it's a copyright claim that's limiting me. PC should work fine.
Pause and Select
Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories | Mick West
Millions of people believe that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives as part of a vast government conspiracy. One of the core pieces of ...
Center for Inquiry
Alan Hollinghurst: Beautiful Lines and Strangers' Children
Alan Hollinghurst is one of the British novel's most admired stylists. In the course of his writing career, Hollinghurst has fashioned a unique literary voice at once ...
WheelerCentre
Are Brains Analogue or Digital? | Prof Freeman Dyson | Univeristy College Dublin
Abstract: We know that creatures like us have two separate systems for processing information, the genome and the brain. We know that the genome is digital, ...
UCD - University College Dublin
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
Award-winning author Charlotte Gordon discussed her biography of Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, entitled "Romantic Outlaws: The ...
Library of Congress