Crash Course
How World War I Started: Crash Course World History 209
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 are kind of important to understanding the Great...
Crash Course
Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius...
Crash Course
Post-World War II Recovery: Crash Course European History
At the end of World War II, the nations of Europe were a shambles. Today we'll learn about how the various countries and blocs approached the problem of rebuilding their infrastructure and helping their residents recover. You'll learn...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: 3 easy steps to build a real utopia | Joseph Lacey
A group of strangers have gathered to design a just society. To ensure none of them rig the system, they’ve been placed under a veil of ignorance. Under this veil, they’re blind to information about age, sex, profession, wealth,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War | Brian Crim
In May of 1945 the Third Reich was in chaos. Adolf Hitler was dead and German surrender was imminent. But while World War II was almost over, a new war was brewing. And the US was eager to recruit the smartest minds in Germany before the...
SciShow
Something's Been Making Weird Pits in the Seafloor
For years, scientists couldn't solve the mystery of strange pits on the floor of the North Sea. Initially they blamed methane seeps, but it seems like the pits were actually made on porpoise.
SciShow
Goodbye, SOFIA, the Telescope That Actually Flew
In 1997, NASA bought a Boeing 747SP for what might be both a super cool and super absurd purpose. Turn it into SOFIA, a flying telescope.
SciShow
What Really Happened the First Time We Split a Heavy Atom in Half
When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission.
SciShow
Victorian Pseudosciences: Solving Murders with Eyeballs
In the 1800s, Wilhelm Kühne created an image of a window from the eyes of a rabbit. Was this technology applicable to humans? Hosted by: Michael Aranda
SciShow
Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Are solar panels worth it? | Shannon Odell
Today in many countries solar is the cheapest form of energy to produce. Millions of homes are equipped with rooftop solar, with most units paying for themselves in their first seven to 12 years and then generating further savings. So,...
Crash Course
Realism Gets Even More Real: Crash Course Theater #32
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, theater was evolving rapidly in Europe. Impresarios like Georg II, Duke of the Duchy of Saxe Meinengen (in what is now Germany), were pushing theater troupes to new heights of realism. New...
Crash Course
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater: Crash Course Theater #44
Are you ready to learn something about the world? Then you're ready for Bertolt Brecht, and his ideas about Epic Theater. Brecht wanted to lean into the idea of theater as a tool to upset and educate the world about stuff like the...
TED Talks
TED: The fairy tales of the fossil fuel industry -- and a better climate story | Luisa Neubauer
The fossil fuel industry is a factory of fairy tales, says activist and School Strike for Climate organizer Luisa Neubauer. Tracing the industry's five-decade trickle of lies about climate science, she busts the myth that economic growth...
Curated Video
The Gutenburg Bible to a VW Beetle: How Brits see Germany
LEAD IN:Germans are getting the opportunity to see centuries of their own history, but it's being served up from a British point of view."The British View: Germany - Memories of a Nation," is based on an exhibit which opened in London...
Curated Video
WRAP HK, Beijing, London, Frankfurt markets rally after falls, s'bite
London, UK - 18 March 2008
1. Wide of skyscrapers in London's financial district
2. Wide of BGC Partners trading floor
3. Various of dealers on trading floor
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard Wheeldon, BGC Partners:
"I think the Fed will cut...
Curated Video
WRAP London, Frankfurt, Paris open lower ADDS Brown on economy
AP Television
London, UK
1. Various of workers arriving for work in the financial district
London Stock Exchange
2. Close up of monitors showing opening of London Stock exchange
AP Television
London, UK
3. Wide of street, Bank of...
Curated Video
USA: ANNUAL EAST COAST DOLL AND TEDDY BEAR EXHIBITION OPENS
English/Nat
Thousands of the world's most fascinating teddy bears and dolls have gone on display in Washington, D-C.
Centre of attraction at this year's Doll and Teddy Bear Expo is a bear formerly owned by the late Jacqueline...
Curated Video
14 arrested in alleged plot to free terror suspect
AP Television
Brussels, Belgium - 21 December 2007
1. Wide shot officials arriving at press conference
2. Press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Dutch): Jaak Raes, Director General of the Interior Ministry's Crisis Centre:
"We always said that...
Curated Video
Germany - Strikes
For the second day running, engineering and automotive workers
staged warning strikes across western Germany on Tuesday (1/2) in
support of wage demands and against plans to cut holidays and
holiday pay.
buses arriving from all over...
Curated Video
Protest over slaying of pregnant muslim woman in German court
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
Curated Video
Germany - Threat of flooding
Residents in some riverside German villages along the Oder have
refused to evacuate their homes despite the threat of flooding.
Rescue workers have been plugging cracks in dykes along the
river, but flood barriers remained critically...
Curated Video
Steinmeier on Syria and France's economic policies
Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the "prospects of success" of the Geneva talks on ending the Syrian conflict could not be guaranteed without the participation of the Syrian opposition.
The Western-backed Syrian National...