The video series examines the issues involved in research ideation and methodology. Researchers from several universities and master's and doctoral students present examples of work they have done and comment on their experiences.

Explains for students the history of the United States census explaining how and why it exists. Includes photographs and fact-boxes.

"The general principles of the scientific method, which are applicable across all of the sciences, are essential for perspective, productivity, and innovation. These principles include deductive and inductive logic, probability, parsimony, and hypothesis testing, as well as science's presuppositions, limitations, ethics, and bold claims of rationality and truth. The implicit contrast is with specialized techniques confined to a given discipline, such...