Number theorists

W. R. (Red) Alford

William Robert "Red" Alford (July 21, 1937 – May 29, 2003) was an American mathematician who worked in the fields of topology and number theory. (Wikipedia).

W. R. (Red) Alford
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'Lord of the Flies' Character Analysis: Piggy

In this video we analyse the character of Piggy from ‘Lord of the Flies’. Sources referenced: ‘William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery’ by Virginia Tiger (1974); ‘William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies’, by Professor John Carey, (2009); ‘William Golding : Lord of the F

From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

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Leadership in 'Lord of the Flies'

In this video we look at the different types of leadership found within William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’. References taken from: ’William Golding: Lord of the Flies’, Raychel Haugrud Reiff, 2009; ‘The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces’, William Golding, 2013. Buy my revision guid

From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

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Edward Hyde: Advanced Character Analysis

Today we take a detailed look at the character of Edward Hyde to launch the second edition of 'Mr Bruff's Guide to 'Jekyll and Hyde'', which you can buy here: https://amzn.to/2SYOFQA Sources referenced: Ambrosini, Richard and Dury, Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries (Universit

From playlist 'Jekyll and Hyde' Analysis

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'Lord of the Flies' Character Analysis: Simon

In this video we take a detailed look at the character of Simon in William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’. Sources referenced: ‘The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces’, William Golding, 2013; ‘The Tragic Protest’, David Anderson, 1969; ‘William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flie

From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

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House of Cards (1990) - Main Theme

'Francis Urquhart's March' by Jim Parker.

From playlist Ian Richardson's Recordings

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The Red Lake in Iraq | What On Earth? (Full Episode)

Six breathtaking images, six unfathomable mysteries: from a gigantic tsunami in the air that never hits land, to a secret underground base in China, to an image from space that may reveal the location of the Garden of Eden. Stream Full Episodes of What on Earth?: https://www.sciencechanne

From playlist Free Science Channel Episodes

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Character Analysis: Lady Macbeth

Does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as subverting feminine stereotypes of the Jacobean era or conforming to them? Sources used: ‘On The Character of Lady Macbeth, by Dr Emil Pfundheller, 1873 ‘The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare’, Joan Larsen Klein ‘Women in Literature:

From playlist William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' - Detailed Analysis

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Did the CIA Kill A Hollywood Writer? | The Writer With No Hands (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

Academic Matthew Alford explores fresh evidence in a Hollywood cold case. A university professor, Matthew Alford, suspects the CIA killed a Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore to protect a government secret. Alford believes it was an assassination, disguised as a car accident. So, he conta

From playlist Crime Documentaries

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Uniform rectifiability via perimeter minimization III - Tatiana Toro

Women and Mathematics: Terng Lecture Course Topic: Uniform rectifiability via perimeter minimization III Speaker: Tatiana Toro Affiliation: University of Washington Date: May 23, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Mathematics

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Nelson Rangell "The Red Pill"

Nelson Rangell Plays "The Red Pill" from His New CD "Red" www.nelsonrangell.com

From playlist Western Music

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Plea Bargaining (s6b)

Plea Bargaining (s6b) This class is about the two most important decisions made in any capital case – whether the prosecutor will seek the death penalty, and, if so, whether the prosecutor will agree to resolve the case with a plea bargain in which the prosecutor does not seek death in exc

From playlist Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, & Disadvantage with Stephen Bright

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Omar Leon Sanchez 9/12/14 Part 2

Title: Effective Bounds For Finite Differential-Algebraic Varieties (Part II)

From playlist Fall 2014

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Collisionless Dynamics and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Part 5 - Volker Springel

Collisionless Dynamics and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Part 5 Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics July 23, 2009

From playlist PiTP 2009

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Max Tegmark - Asking Ultimate Questions

Push boundaries. Discern the deep essence of existence. Search the foundations of reality. Imagine all that may exist in physical realms beyond current understanding. Seek to know now all that can be known. Overly ambitious? Sophomoric? We don't care. We do it anyway. Enjoy asking ultimate

From playlist Closer To Truth - Max Tegmark Interviews

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How significant was the gender of the monarch in Tudor England?

In this lecture, Dr Natalie Mears (Durham University) considers the question, ‘How significant was the gender of the monarch during the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth?’, focusing in particular on: (i) the historiography: the relative amount of attention historians have paid to each queen, an

From playlist History

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Uniform rectifiability via perimeter minimization IV - Tatiana Toro

Women and Mathematics: Terng Lecture Course Topic: Uniform rectifiability via perimeter minimization IV Speaker: Tatiana Toro Affiliation: University of Washington Date: May 24, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Mathematics

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Electrochemical Benzylic Collidination with Bill Motsch

In this Research Spotlight episode, Bill Motsch (Temple University, Wengryniuk lab) joins us to share his recently published work on benzylic C-H collidination under electrochemical conditions. Key reference: Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 6060. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02376 Addition

From playlist Research Spotlights

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Character Analysis: The Witches in 'Macbeth'

In today’s video, I look at the witches in ‘Macbeth’. Sources referred to: Samuel Johnson: ‘MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS on the TRAGEDY of MACBETH’ (1745) Dr Emma Smith’s Oxford University lecture, which can be listened to here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/macbeth Buy my revision guides i

From playlist William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' - Detailed Analysis

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