Video Brain Teaser #54
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
Video Brain Teaser #55
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
Video Brain Teaser #56
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
Video Brain Teaser #57
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
Video Brain Teaser #59
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items.
Video Brain Teaser #60
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
Schizophrenia Symptoms
A rather advanced description of schizophrenia from a medical doctor. Interviews with people who have schizophrenia discuss the illness. (2:15)
Exploring Wisconsin Our Home-Maps: Our Windows on the World Maps: Our Windows on the World - Everyone uses maps on a daily basis. Simple mental maps help people find their way through the routine of daily life, while more complex maps assist people as they navigate through an infinite variety of new environments and tasks. In this program, students will become acquainted with the great variety of maps and will come to understand what maps are, how they work,
Video Brain Teaser #13- Rearrange 2 Triangles to Make 8 Triangles
Videos that provide viewers with brain teasers/mental puzzles. These may consist of problems dealing with the arrangement of matchsticks, coins, and other items. May include pencil drawing games, optical illusions, hidden images and "Find the Twin" problems.
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Animated Storybook- "When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real." Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit will live forever in the annals of children's literature, coming alive through this unforgettable rendition. Told by Meryl Streep, Music by George Winston, Illustrated by David Jorgensen Awards: 1986 Grammy Award Nomination - Best Recording for Children Action For Children's Television (ACT) Award American Fil
The New Culture of the 1920s
In addition to the political and social transformations brought about by prohibition, fundamentalism and nativism, the 1920s also witnessed a cultural transformation. In this postwar decade, many citizens, especially in larger urban areas, were embracing new forms of entertainment, discovering new recreational activities, and adopting the culture of consumerism. Literature and music were taking adventurous new strides, and the women rights movement was making slow progress. In light of all these
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
This was a video for an 11th grade AP Literature and Composition class. It is images dealing with the theme of captivity as depicted in the novel, Invisible Man. The novel is about a young African American man moves to New York City and discovers he is
“invisible,” seen only as a racial stereotype and never as himself.
The Exquisite Corpse, a page-turning adventure book for children to read
Shows the pages of a 180 page book, without narration. Students can turn the pages as they read each episode. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game. Jon Scieszka, U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, has written the first episode,"A Very Unusual and Completely Amazing Story Pieced Together Out Of So Many Parts That It Is Not Possible To Describe Them All Here, So Go Ahead and Just Start Reading!" He has passed it on to a cast of celebrated writers whose works are very popula
Anne Frank's Writings at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Video about the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's display of Anne Frank's complete original writings in one place. In this interview Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, explores the extraordinary precocity of Anne Frank and what her creativity and her loss means for people today.
Plutarch-Isis and Osiris
This video explores the the literature of Plutarch. Plutarch was not concerned with history so much as the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of men.
15.099 Readings in Optimization (MIT)
In keeping with the tradition of the last twenty-some years, the Readings in Optimization seminar will focus on an advanced topic of interest to a portion of the MIT optimization community: randomized methods for deterministic optimization. In contrast to conventional optimization algorithms whose iterates are computed and analyzed deterministically, randomized methods rely on stochastic processes and random number/vector generation as part of the algorithm and/or its analysis. In the seminar, w
Filmmakers@Google: Vicki Abeles
Director Vicki Abeles turns the personal political, igniting a national conversation in her new documentary about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in our achievement obsessed public and private education system and culture. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried students aren't developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what's best fo
Digital Art@Google: James Tunick and Jack Toolin
James Tunick is an artist focused on the intersection of creativity and technology in public spaces, an entrepreneur, and software
developer. He lives and works in New York City. Tunick founded StudioIMC (www.StudioIMC.com), an Outernet technology company that represents an international team of programmers and digital artists.
His work has been featured at Ars Electronica Center and the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and he has curated StudioIMC art shows at the Paley Center for Media and Chels
Anita Silvey: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Anita Silvey appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: The author of "100 Best Books for Children" and "500 Great Books for Teens," Anita Silvey has devoted 35 years to promoting books that will turn young people -- and families -- into readers. To do this she has appeared on NPR, "The Today Show," "60 Minutes" and radio programs in the United States and Canada to talk about books for children and teenagers. As Publisher's Weekly has said, "It would be hard to find a
Jane Smiley: 2010 National Book Festival (Teens)
National bestselling author Jane Smiley appears at the 2010 National Book Festival, Teens & Children tent.
Speaker Biography: Jane Smiley is the author of several critically acclaimed and popular novels, including "The Age of God," "The Greenlanders," "Ordinary Love and Good Will," "A Thousand Acres" (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award), "Horse Heaven," "Good Faith" and the new young-adult novel "The Georges and the Jewels" (Knopf). She has also written for
