This short film helps to dispel myths and misconceptions about social anxiety disorder and provides some tools to assist people who have been diagnosed with this illness.
From playlist Mental Health: An animated series
How Is the ADHD Brain Different?
If you’re online, you may notice that conversations around ADHD are everywhere. You may even be starting to wonder, as you flick from one app to the next, that you yourself may have ADHD. So in Part 1 of this series about ADHD, Julian explores what this disorder is, what’s happening in the
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Nowadays, we know more and more about what it means to be mentally unwell - but what exactly constitutes mental 'health’? In this film, we’ll explore what characterises an optimally functioning mind. If you are struggling with mental health there are lines where you can get professional s
From playlist SELF
The idea of ‘atonement’ sounds very old-fashioned and is deeply rooted in religious tradition. To atone means, in essence, to acknowledge one’s capacity for wrongness and one’s readiness for apology and desire for change. It’s a concept that every society needs at its center. For gifts and
From playlist RELATIONSHIPS
How to Deal with Depression. Causes and Things That Can Help!
Learn more about depression and concentrating: http://memorise.org/brain-articles/depression-inability-concentrate For getting help with depression go here: http://www.healthline.com/health/depression/help-for-depression#TreatmentFacts1 Get your free training training to remember what y
From playlist Anxiety, Depression and Brain Fog
How to Build Your Mental Strength
First, realize there’s a difference between acting tough and actually being mentally strong. Developing mental strength takes practice, and involves overcoming our natural anxieties so we can handle difficult situations. Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do”, s
From playlist Quick Study
Which Incapacitating Agent is the Most Effective?
This time, we're ranking incapacitating agents! The term incapacitating agent is defined by the United States Department of Defense as: "An agent that produces temporary physiological or mental effects, or both, which will render individuals incapable of concerted effort in the performance
From playlist Chemistry Tierlists
Japan's ancient secret to better cognitive memory - BBC REEL
The centuries-old abacus, once a common tool in many countries, has now been abandoned around the world. But in Japan, thousands of students are still taught proficiency on the abacus. Advocates argue that sliding the beads up and down with your fingers and then thinking with your brain c
From playlist Reel World
Sharp Elsi Mate model EL-429 Review / HowTo
The Sharp Elsimate calculator model EL-429, from 1978. It's an electronic calculator with attached soroban (abacus). This is episode 49 of my video series about calculating devices. End song inspired by "Hotter than a molotov" by The Coup. #soroban #calculator
From playlist Calculating Devices Review / HowTos
How Not to be a Slave to Your Brain: Mindfulness for Mental Health | Mark Epstein | Big Think
How Not to be a Slave to Your Brain: Mindfulness for Mental Health Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big Thin
From playlist Mindfulness for mental health | Big Think
NUMBERS: "0", God's Gesture | Five numbers that changed the world | Cool Math
NUMBERS - secrets of Math. Mathematics is shrouded behind a veil and does not easily reveal itself. Students resort to rote memorization of math formulas to solve problems in a boring exercise of the mind that is also repetitive. However, if you knew the history of mathematics, the way the
From playlist Civilization
ADHD might seem like a convenient excuse to be able to medicate your overactive child. But it turns out that ADHD is a real diagnosis with a different combination of symptoms for each person. There are still a lot of questions surrounding it. What causes it? How is it treated? And what doe
From playlist New Releases for January 2019
Calculator Sticks from the 1600s
Napier's bones, invented in the 1600s. They multiply a big number times a single digit. This is episode 8 of my video series about calculating devices. Chris Staecker webarea: http://cstaecker.fairfield.edu/~cstaecker Page about the bones: http://cstaecker.fairfield.edu/~cstaecker/bones
From playlist Calculating Devices Review / HowTos
Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1
Hello, world! Welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! So today, we’re going to take a look at computing’s origins, because even though our digital computers are relatively new, the need for computation is not. Since the start of civilization itself, humans have had an increasing need for
From playlist Computer Science
How To Calculate Square Roots - Numerals That Changed Math Forever
There's an incredible method to extract the square root of a perfect square in your head. MIT Entrace Exam Arithmetic 1876 WayBackMachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190404065722/https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/exam-entrance1876/arithmetic1876.html Square root method Burnin
From playlist Mental Math Tricks
Susan Goldin-Meadow, “Gesture as a Mechanism of Change”
Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities – “Habits of Mind” “Gesture as a Mechanism of Change” Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her focus is on the ways that the b
From playlist Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities
My Napier's Bones video got a million views, so I decided to reply to some of the comments! Thanks to all for the support over the years. Original Napier's Bones video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXkQWZ77b_4 Music at the beginning is from "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young Chris S
From playlist Calculating Devices Review / HowTos
MountainWest RubyConf 2015 - Conventions Between Applications
by Michael Ries Rails gives us great conventions for building an application, but what conventions should we use when we are building a whole system that encompasses multiple applications? How should we name things? What abstraction layers should we enforce? The MX team has been building a
From playlist MWRC 2015
The Fundamental Counting Principle | Real World College Math | Study Hall
Even though counting can feel natural to us, we have invented different ways to do it. Different counting systems were created in order to fit different needs in our daily lives, to make it more precise and handle large amounts of data. In this episode, we discuss the fundamental principle
From playlist Real World College Math: Course Foundations
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From playlist SELF