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24 May Mark Rober

Posted at 09:24h in B1 - Intermediate, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Funny, Popular Culture, Science, Technology, Youtube CHANNEL recommendations

The Mark Rober YouTube channel primarily features videos that combine science, engineering, and creativity. Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, creates engaging and entertaining content that often involves building and testing various inventions and gadgets....

08 Feb Where Good Ideas Come From

Posted at 23:11h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Environment, Funny, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, TED

What is the ideal space for creativity? Steven Johnson shares his investigation and research of trying to find the `right` environment for our `lightbulb` moments to grow....

08 Feb The Magical Science of Storytelling

Posted at 23:07h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Funny, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, TED

An entertaining video that questions whether storytelling is the most powerful tool of all. The speaker discusses an experiment that shows how objects bought on eBay are more valuable if they have a story attached to them and how a similar thing happens with objects...

16 Nov A Funny Look At The Unintended Consequences of Technology

Posted at 09:16h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Funny, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Psychology, Technology, TED

"Future tech always comes with two things: promise and unintended consequences", he says and it's those consequences that this video explores, the unintended consequences of some of our recent tech, namely, social media. Social media, a few short years ago, was the tech of future...

15 Oct ANCHORING EFFECT: GUESSING HOW MANY JELLY BEANS ARE IN A JAR | WHY ARE WE ALL SO STUPID?

Posted at 07:21h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Business Insider, Economics, Funny, Non Guided, North America, Partial Lesson Plan, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Anchoring effect is our tendency to rely too much on the first piece of information. Knowing about the anchoring effect may help you better negotiate a pay raise ...

29 Sep What is an Ad Hominem attack?

Posted at 11:54h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Funny, Management, North America, Politics, Popular Culture, Psychology, Wired

Be careful of how you behave, NOT what you say! You could be exposed to an Ad Hominem attack where words aren't heard but your personality and status ARE key!...

29 Sep This is why we can`t have nice things

Posted at 10:54h in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Environment, Funny, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology, Veritasium

An investigation into objects such as light bulbs, printers and phones and how the same products made today are not necessarily better...

29 Sep Think you have a «Type A» personality? Sorry, that`s fake news!

Posted at 10:30h in Australia, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Braincraft, C1 - Advanced, Environment, Funny, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Have you ever been classed as Type A or Type B personality? How did you react? This video discusses the side effects of labelling and where they actually originate from....

30 May How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk

Posted at 20:05h in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Funny, Management, Psychology, TED

This TED speaker takes a comical look at how TED Talks are structured with this perfect parody. It’s a useful video for breaking down public speaking and presentations into their basic elements. The video has racked up 11 million views which reflects its comedy value...

26 May Is it time to eat bugs?

Posted at 10:56h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Environment, Funny, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology

This comedy sketch takes a lighter look at the growing industry of insects as a source of food....