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PBS

How Muslim and Jewish faith groups are coming together during Israel-Hamas war

12th - Higher Ed
The conflict in the Middle East has been a fraught subject for decades, including in the U.S., and especially within American Jewish and Muslim communities. And for almost as long, interfaith groups have sought to bring those communities...
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Curated Video

Inauguration of President Richard M Nixon 1973, Part 11

Higher Ed
Swearing -in and Inauguration of President Richard M Nixon Washington DC January 1973 from Nixon Presidential Materials- National Archives
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Curated Video

USA: WOODWARD TRIAL: PRESSURE GROWS FOR JUDGE TO QUASH VERDICT

Higher Ed
English/Nat The judge in the murder trial of British au pair Louise Woodward is coming under increasing pressure to overturn the jury's guilty verdict. In a new twist to the story, a juror told an English newspaper that no one on the...
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Curated Video

US Secretary of State at dinner with Iraqi officials

Higher Ed
1. Two night shots of US army guarding building where meeting takes place 2. Saaed Hussein Al-Sadr, shia Muslim cleric, coming in through one door, pans to US Secretary of State Colin Powell coming in through the other door, men salute...
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Curated Video

When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren''t the usual team of doctors or nurses.

Higher Ed
HEADLINE: Kids help mom deliver baby brother CAPTION: When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn brother....
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Crash Course

Indiana Jones & Pascal's Wager: Crash Course Philosophy

12th - Higher Ed
Today we conclude our unit on Philosophy of Religion and Hank gets a little help from Indiana Jones to explain religious pragmatism and Pascal’s Wager, fideism, and Kierkegaard’s leap to faith.
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TED Talks

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)

12th - Higher Ed
Plenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too. But what is religion, exactly — is it good or bad, in and of itself? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah offers a generous, surprising view.
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TED Talks

Alaa Murabit: What my religion really says about women

12th - Higher Ed
Strong faith is a core part of Alaa Murabit's identity -- but when she moved from Canada to Libya as a young woman, she was surprised how the tenets of Islam were used to severely limit women's rights, independence and ability to lead....
Instructional Video19:36
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Katelyn Salem vs. Hank Green

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome back to SciShow Quiz Show! Katelyn Salem of Kate Tectonics competes against Googleable internet sensation, Hank Green.
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TED Talks

George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders

12th - Higher Ed
Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders if it's just a preview of what's to come. “Our democracies," he says, "are trapped by systems that are too big to fail, or...
Instructional Video4:58
TED Talks

David Brooks: Should you live for your r_sum_ ... or your eulogy?

12th - Higher Ed
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a r_sum_, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy....
Instructional Video12:44
TED Talks

TED: How a "Hi Level" mindset helps you realize your potential | Cordae

12th - Higher Ed
What does it take to build a legacy? Hip-hop artist Cordae tells how he went from mixtape-dropping high school kid to Grammy-nominated music star whose "Hi Level" mindset helps him achieve his dreams.
Instructional Video15:49
TED Talks

Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion

12th - Higher Ed
The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories,...
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TED Talks

Karen Armstrong: My wish: The Charter for Compassion

12th - Higher Ed
People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious...
Instructional Video18:58
TED Talks

Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into...
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TED Talks

Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption

12th - Higher Ed
Paula Stone Williams knew from a young age that she was transgender. But as she became a parent and prominent evangelical pastor, she feared that coming out would mean losing everything. In this moving, deeply personal talk, Paula and...
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TED Talks

TED: Is civility a sham? | Teresa Bejan

12th - Higher Ed
What exactly is civility, and what does it require? In a talk packed with historical insights, political theorist Teresa Bejan explains how civility has been used as both the foundation of tolerant societies and as a way for political...
Instructional Video18:31
TED Talks

James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table

12th - Higher Ed
Join Rev. James Forbes at the dinner table of his Southern childhood, where his mother and father taught him what compassion really means day to day -- sharing with those who need love.
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TED Talks

TED: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent - Jeffrey Brown

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. An architect of the "Boston miracle," Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his...
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TED Talks

TED: What it's like to be Muslim in America | Dalia Mogahed

12th - Higher Ed
When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: A woman of faith? A scholar, a mom, a sister? Or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this personal, powerful talk, Mogahed asks us, in this polarizing time,...
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TED Talks

TED: Confessions of a depressed comic | Kevin Breel

12th - Higher Ed
Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that -- to save his own life -- he needed to say four simple words.
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TED Talks

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

12th - Higher Ed
For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding transformed the world within a few centuries. Why? Physicist David Deutsch proposes...
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SciShow

The First Results on the Interstellar Asteroid!

12th - Higher Ed
Our asteroid news edition this week clears up some misleading headlines regarding 3200 Phaethon, and our interstellar visitor has both a new name and a shape we haven’t seen before.
Instructional Video15:32
Crash Course

The Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
You may have noticed that the internet is terrible at religious discourse. Well, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early 16th century, the Roman Catholic church dominated Christianity in Europe, and the institution was starting to...