The climatic phenomenon known as El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific that impacts weather and climate around the globe. An El Niño occurs every four to twelve years, causes die-offs of plankton and fish, and affects Pacific jet-stream winds, altering storm
Warm water fuels the tropical storms that ultimately form hurricanes. In this video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, learn how El Niño events—climatic anomalies that occur periodically in the Pacific Ocean—alter the course of atmospheric circulation and lessen hurricane forma
Kissing bugs are from the groups of insects commonly called assassin bugs. These arthropods are well known as the insects responsible for the spread of Chagas disease, though they don't actually give the disease to people through their bites (which are typically made around a person's mouth). There
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"Playing is the highest form of research," Einstein is said to have said. Nowadays, gaming also happens in video games, and teachers use it in class or for homework. For this video, we teamed up with the folks at G2A – the world's largest gaming marketplace. We'll learn about the three dimensions of
Operant conditioning, also known as learning from success, is based on the assumption that we can reinforce or decrease a certain behavior by adding a consequence. For example, if a dog makes a pile on the carpet, we can either reinforce the behavior so that the dog does it again. Or we punish him
A schema is a generalization of past experiences that forms a fixed pattern of thought. Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone, Esther Chiang, Eva Marie Koblin, John Zhang, Julien Dumesnil, Mathis Nu - and all the others!! They keep us on
Freud's theory of psychosexual development states that we go through five critical phases in the course of our growing up. Our sex drive, which Freud called the libido, is concentrated in a different erogenous zone at each stage. The phases are called: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. If
In 1964, most people believed that the reason people become poor was a matter of biology and had little to do with the environment in which they grew up. Urie Bronfenbrenner, a young psychologist, helped us understand that a child's environment also plays a role. When he was invented to explain his
Today, medicine is seen as an authority and a sacred institution. But like any institution, it has a dark past. The story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis shows how medicine was terribly wrong and how the poor judgment of the doctors cost many women their lives. In 19th-century Vienna, the young doctor was r
In 1983, the American psychologist Howard Gardner published a book [Frames of Mind] with the theory that there are nine types of intelligence: Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone, Esther Chiang, Eva Marie Koblin, John Zhang, Julien Dum
We can only remember certain moments or movies because they have been stored in our memory under the influence of emotions. When we win or fail, cry or celebrate, we learn quickly, intensively and a lot. But when we are afraid, our brain limits our ability to think. And for good reason. Anxiety is
