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Why should you read Charles Dickens?
Iseult Gillespie The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain recognizable
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What is depression?
Helen M. Farrell Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world. In the United States, nearly 10% of adults struggle with depression. But since this is a mental illness, it is more difficult to deal with it than,
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How to save a language from extinction
Daniel Bögre Udell As many as 3,000 languages could disappear within the next 80 years, all but silencing entire cultures. In this quick talk, language activist Daniel Bögre Udell shows how people around the world are finding new ways to
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The power of the placebo effect
Emma Bryce The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon in which drugs and treatments that shouldn’t work — and are often fake — miraculously improve people’s well-being. What’s going on? Emma Bryce delves into the mystery of the placebo’s bizarre
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The Dark Side of Happiness
June Gruber Yale psychologist June Gruber asks whether, in a culture obsessed with pursuing happiness, it’s possible to have too much of a good thing.
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How language shapes the way we think
Lera Boroditsky There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an
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Uzbekistan State World Languages University. History and Present.
A brief look at the history of the Uzbekistan State World Languages University. The video was prepared by Kamol Rasulov and Akmal Yuldashev.
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LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING A PANDEMIC (on the example of UzSWLU)
This video was presented by the Faculty of Russian Philology of the Uzbekistan State World Languages University.
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STAY AT HOME WITH YOUR FAVORITE BOOK!
Video by the members of Student’s Union headed by Nozliya Normurodova, the head of the Chair of Intercultural Communication and Tourism of the Navai University of Uzbek Language and Literature in Tashkent.
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Try something new for 30 days
Matt Cutts Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
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