What is the best voting system? Voting seems relatively straightforward, yet four of the most widely used voting systems can produce four completely different winners.

Asano Naganori, lord of Akō domain, fixed his gaze on Kira Yoshinaka, a senior master of ceremony. Asano extended his short sword, charged through the castle, and struck Kira. While the wound wasn’t fatal, its consequences would be. What...

The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like bacteria. But, in recent years, it’s been their connection to us that's turned out to be particularly full of...

Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...

The year is 1800 in the castle town of Kôchi, Japan. It's just after sunrise, and 16-year-old Mori Banshirô is already hard at work practicing drills with his long sword. He is an ambitious samurai in training, and today he must impress...

Taxonomy is a powerful tool, and one that modern biology wouldn't be able to function without. But trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in a pretty messy tree of...

To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...

Explores classification in biology as well as taxonomy hierarchy: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species with The Amoeba Sisters! This video also discusses the importance of scientific names and why...

The Internet connects billions of people and machines; it's the backbone of modern life. But tech pioneer Danny Hillis thinks the Internet just wasn't designed to grow this big -- and he fears that one big cyber-attack or glitch could...

What is the best voting system? Voting seems relatively straightforward, yet four of the most widely used voting systems can produce four completely different winners.

In this video Paul Andersen describes the defining characteristics of members in the domain archaebacteria. He starts with a brief description of the phylogeny of this group. He then describes the major characteristics on an archaea,...

The Internet is older than you might think!

Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy.

Paul Andersen discusses the defining characteristics of the members of Domain Eukarya. He starts with a brief description of the phylogeny of life on earth. He then discusses the major characteristics of eukaryotic cells. He explains...

New ReviewThe Cynefin Framework is a description of the nature of different situations. And each situation merits a different kind of leadership.

New ReviewIn this video we are going to focus on the impact that transformations have on the square root function. In addition to that we will look at how to find the transformations of that function

New ReviewCommon mistake students make graphing radical functions deal when there is two horizontal transformations.

New ReviewUnderstanding the basic characteristics of the identity function such as the domain, range, increasing, decreasing, extrema and if it is even or odd.

New ReviewIn this video I am going to highlight the top ten types of functions that students make mistakes with when finding the domain and range

New ReviewWhen we want to find the domain and range from a function it is helpful to know the domain and the range of the parent graph and the transformations

In this video, learn about VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) and how it simplifies VLAN management across switches.

In this video, we will understand more about the WhoIS query. It discusses ICANN's WhoIS, policies and exceptions, complaints, and a knowledge center.

In this video, observe a live demo of configuring SSH for secure remote management of Cisco devices.

In this video, learn about SSH, a secure method for remotely accessing Cisco devices over an encrypted channel.