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    The Psychology of Your Future Self

    The Psychology of Your Future Self

    "Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.

    Subjects:
    Psychology
    Keywords:
    Self Personality
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    9 Myths about Psychology, Debunked

    9 Myths about Psychology, Debunked

    How much of what you think about psychology is actually wrong? In this whistle-stop tour of disproved ideas, Ben Ambridge shares nine popular ideas about psychology that have been proven wrong -- and uncovers a few surprising truths about how our brains really work.

    Subjects:
    Psychology
    Keywords:
    Psychology
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime

    How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime

    Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Child mental health Psychic trauma in children
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    Video
     
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    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Using a mobile app to check glucose levels, sending selfies to receive diagnoses and receiving text reminders to take pills. Is this what the future of healthcare will look like? Karalee Close believes it should, considering that medical mistakes are the fourth leading cause of death in the US. She argues that a closer marriage of technology, big data and healthcare can improve today's system -- especially when it comes to mitigating human error.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medical technology Public health -- Data processing
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    Video
     
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    An Athlete Uses Physics To Shatter World Records

    An Athlete Uses Physics To Shatter World Records

    When Dick Fosbury couldn't compete against the skilled high jumpers at his college, he tried jumping in a different way -- backwards. Fosbury improved his record immediately and continued to amaze the world with his new technique all the way to Olympic gold. Asaf Bar-Yosef explains the physics behind the success of the now dominant Fosbury Flop.

    Subjects:
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Soccer -- Kicking Physics
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    Video
     
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    The Discovery That Could Rewrite Physics

    The Discovery That Could Rewrite Physics

    On March 17, 2014, a group of physicists announced a thrilling discovery: the “smoking gun” data for the idea of an inflationary universe, a clue to the Big Bang. For non-physicists, what does it mean? TED asked Allan Adams to briefly explain the results, in this improvised talk illustrated by Randall Munroe of xkcd.

    Subjects:
    Physics and Cosmology and Astronomy
    Keywords:
    Inflationary universe Gravitational waves
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    Video
     
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    The Hidden Force in Global Economics: Sending Money Home

    The Hidden Force in Global Economics: Sending Money Home

    In 2013, international migrants sent $413 billion home to families and friends — three times more than the total of global foreign aid (about $135 billion). This money, known as remittances, makes a significant difference in the lives of those receiving it and plays a major role in the economies of many countries. Economist Dilip Ratha describes the promise of these “dollars wrapped with love” and analyzes how they are stifled by practical and regulatory obstacles.

    Subjects:
    Economics
    Keywords:
    Emigrant remittances
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    Video
     
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    The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

    The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

    Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.

    Subjects:
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Turbulence Starry night (Gogh Vincent van)
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    Video
     
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    Is Math Discovered or iInvented?

    Is Math Discovered or iInvented?

    Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient and hotly debated question.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Philosophy
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Math Is Forever

    Math Is Forever

    With humor and charm, mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers a question that's wracked the brains of bored students the world over: What is math for? He shows the beauty of math as the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish, with English subtitles.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics
    Resource Type:
    Video