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Award Winning Semiconductor and Technology Videos This explores manufacturing after the silicon wafers have been fabricated. This film reviews IC fabrication and continues by showing how IC wafers are tested, sorted, and packaged into individual microchips. These devices are then assembled onto the printed circuit boards used in...
Educational researcher Dr. Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” ( experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they’re motivated by curiosity and peer interest. In 1999, Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in a...
Kiran Bir Sethi ( you can read about her&her school here ) shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents. ...
(For more than two and a half millennia, the Panchatantra tales have regaled children and adults alike witha moral at the end of every story. Some believe that they are as old as the RigVeda. There is also another story about these fables. According to it, these are stories...
A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the...
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve...
The philosopher Bertrand Russell (read his wiki page here ) wrote his own personal set of ten commandments. They were published under the title “My Ten Commandments” in Everyman magazine in 1930. They ran as follows: – 1. Do not lie to yourself. 2. Do not lie to other people...
The rain gods had been smiling the whole night. The roads were muddy and the potholes were filled to the brim. It was the day for the market and Raju the farmer was riding his cart along the country road. He had to reach the market early so...
Do you know how an electric cell works? see a small animation here
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to...