This hack should help you get the upper hand in the dark. Of course it wouldn't hurt if you had a gun, split second decision capabilities and lightning fast reflexes. Just sayin' ...

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 75 views • 2:39

Protects Your Body 1:25 Senses the Outside World 1:42 Helps Excrete Waste 2:17 Stores Blood 2:43 Regulates Temperature 2:59 Makes Vitamin D 5:18 Indicates Signs of Poor Health 3:55 How Your Hair... continue reading

posted by RedSky 9 years 2 months ago • 11 views • 9:57

YT: In which John Green teaches you about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the nations of Europe, and are found wanting. This is... continue reading

posted by RedSky 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 207 views • 12:14

YouTube: Finally, after what seems like eons and eons, the end is nigh. We're talking not only about the end of Crash Course Big History, but also the end of everything. The end of humanity and the end... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 71 views • 13:31

You'll try not to of course - but you will, unwittingly. At least there is comfort in knowing one isn't alone.

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 132 views • 4:01

EconStories presents a special event on entrepreneurship and innovation. PayPal co-founder and technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel visits the UT Austin campus to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 13 views • 51:15

YouTube: In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank tackles some difficult topics dealing with prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 592 views • 9:54

YouTube: Why do people sometimes do bad things just because someone else told them to? And what does the term Groupthink mean? In today's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the ideas... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 167 views • 10:08

YouTube: What exactly are Personality Disorders? How can they be diagnosed? Can we prevent some of them? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us the down low on things like Ego-Dystonic... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 325 views • 10:58

YouTube: In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank walks us through the troubling world of Eating and Body Dysmorphic disorders. There's a lot going on here and, even though we still have a lot... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 10:12

Split mind.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 179 views • 11:44

YouTube: So, what do Batman and J.R.R. Tolkien have in common? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It used to be called "Shellshock" and it can be really really really destructive. In this episode of Crash... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months ago • 269 views • 10:51

"Genes matter." YouTube: Not sleeping for days on end. Long periods of euphoria. Racing thoughts. Grandiose ideas. Mania. Depression. All of these are symptoms of Bipolar Disorder. In this episode of... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 10:00

As a psychologist and avid meditator (vipassana) for the past 7 years, myself, I'm excited to begin teaching a university course this semester which examines states of consciousness that transcend the... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 744 views • 3:44

Ever call someone OCD because they like to have a clean apartment? Ever tell someone you have a phobia of spiders when, in fact, they just creep you out a little? In this episode of Crash Course psychology,... continue reading

posted by cricket 9 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 669 views • 11:32

This is another one of those videos that I expect many of you to hate. Gluten is surprisingly polarizing. Of course, most of the evidence that many of you will throw at me are anecdotes. And we all know... continue reading

posted by cricket 9 years 8 months ago • 797 views • 8:48

YouTube: In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and more complex agricultural social orders, or did... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 12:48

"... war is a pretty big deal in world history so we better spend some time talking about it, at least in the abstract."

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 256 views • 10:37

An understanding of how we develop as human beings based on early, sometimes cruel experiments involving primates.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 214 views • 11:38

Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading

posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months ago • 255 views • 43:41