TED Talks
TED: The truth about human population decline | Jennifer D. Sciubba
With birth rates falling, the worldwide human population is getting older and smaller. According to traditional thinking, this spells a future of labor shortages, bankrupt social security systems and overall economic collapse. Before you...
PBS
The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in the very strange, but very real, powers of natural selection.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The merciless mercenaries of the Italian Renaissance | Stephanie Honchell Smith
During the 14th and 15th centuries, mercenaries known as condottieri dominated Italian warfare, profiting from— and encouraging— the region's intense political rivalries. As rulers competed for power and prestige, their disputes often...
SciShow
Science on Trial in Italy
Hank has some thoughts on the news that several Italian scientists who were convicted of 29 counts manslaughter for making an "inadequate risk-assessment" before an earthquake.
SciShow
Can We Predict Earthquakes?
Hank talks about why it is so difficult for scientists to predict earthquakes in the short term.
SciShow
Beware the Bug Spit: How Spittlebugs Accidentally Doom Plants
Ever wondered what makes those balls of white foam you sometimes find clinging to plants? Spittlebugs create these bubbly cocoons after feeding on a plant’s fluids; but unfortunately, their eating habits help transmit a deadly bacteria...
SciShow
The Truth About Leonardo Da Vinci
A true "Renaissance Man", inventor, artist & scholar Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most diversely talented individuals of all time. His "unquenchable curiosity" led him to make discoveries and inventions that were beyond his time, not...
Crash Course
Futurism and Constructivism: Crash Course Theater #39
It's time to go Back...to the Future. By which I mean, we're going back into the past to talk about Futurism. Which seems like it would be cool, but it was started by this terrible guy Martinetti, who also wrote the Italian Fascist...
Curated Video
Putin meets Berlusconi, comments on Iraq
1. Wide shot of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's plane taxiing at Moscow's Vnukova International airport
2. Exterior wide shots of Moscow's Vnukova International Airport
3. Wide shot of Berlusconi's plane taxiing at Moscow's Vnukova...
Curated Video
England and Italian fans get into party spirit ahead of their World Cup match
England and Italy fans were getting into the party spirit in Manaus on Saturday, joining together to sing and make their predictions ahead of the World Cup match between the two nations at the Arena da Amazonia stadium.
England fans hung...
Curated Video
US hands over Herat to Italian ISAF forces, Karzai with Abizaid
Agency Pool
Herat
1. US and Italian soldiers carrying flags - US, Afghan, Italian - in ceremony to hand over Herat PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) from US troops to Italian ISAF troops at PRT headquarters
2. Wide shot ceremony
3....
Curated Video
ITALY: SISTER HELEN PREJEAN PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
The nun who wrote the book 'Dead Man Walking' has, on Friday, reiterated her condemnation of the death penalty following the killing of Betty Lou, a 62-year-old grandmother in the U-S last week.
At a press conference in...
Curated Video
Ziyi Zhang Film
In her new film 'The Banquet' Zhang Ziyi plays Empress Wan, a woman who is trapped in an unfulfilled marriage.
AP Entertainment
Venice , 3rd September 2006
1. Wide shot Zhang Ziyi
2. Cutaway security guard
3. Close up Zhang Ziyi
4....
Curated Video
VOICED Bodies of 18 Italians flown home for burial
November 15, 2003
00:02 Soldiers standing by coffins
00:04 Wide of soldiers beside coffins
00:07 Priest giving blessing
00:12 Soldiers standing at attention beside the coffins
00:16 Priest giving his blessing
FILE - November 12, 2003...
Curated Video
WRAP Questions may arise over Pope''s Angelus absence
Vatican City
1. Pan across St Peter''s Square
2. Mid shot of Apostolic Palace
3. Closer shot of window of pope''s residence in Apostolic Palace (middle window is the one that the pope normally appears at)
4. Mid shot of the window
Rome,...
Curated Video
Wedding fair for same sex couples, despite national ban on gay marriage
The Celli fashion house displayed its "Raibow" collection of wedding clothes for gay couples on Thursday night at the Rome Wedding Fair.
The show took place as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi surprised everybody by...
Curated Video
ITALY: KURDS CONTINUE PROTEST AGAINST OCALAN'S ARREST
English/Nat
Italy's prime minister says Rome will not grant political asylum to a jailed Kurdish rebel leader - - unless it is convinced he has really renounced terrorism.
Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema made the comments in a speech to...
Curated Video
Partial public transport strike halts buses and subways in capital
1. Mid of bus going to depot, sign on front of bus reading (Italian) "Out of service"
2. Wide of passengers waiting for bus outside Rome's Termini station
3. Bus arriving and crowd surrounding bus
4. Mid of passengers rushing to one...
Curated Video
Inauguration of Europe's longest tunnel
1. Pan right to exteriors of tunnel with cars going in
2. Cars moving inside tunnel
3. Panel with time and date displayed inside tunnel
4. Ground shot of inside of tunnel
5. Pan along tunnel map
6. Cars driving inside tunnel
7....
Curated Video
Nearly 4 years into his papacy, Pope criticised for being 'out of touch'
Tarquinia, Italy - March 25, 2009
1. Wide church of San Francesco in Tarquinia
2. Mid nuns entering church
3. Wide of procession entering church
4. Close of Archbishop Raymond Burke
5. Archbishop and priests
6. Close up priest kissing...
Curated Video
Ferry passengers transported to southern Italy for hospital treatment
Nine passengers rescued from the ferry that caught fire off the coast of Corfu on Sunday were flown to the southern Italian city of Lecce, a Greek Merchant Marine spokesman said on Sunday.
The rescued passengers were then transported to...
Curated Video
Venice gets ready for festival opening.
1. GVs of Venice Island
2. GVs Venice roof tops
3. MS Grand Canal
4. MS motor boat
5. Pan down from roof of Casino
6. Palazzo del Cinema
7. CU flags
8. MS flags being raised
9. GVs posters
10. MS Excelsior Hotel
11. Pan across to...
Curated Video
WRAP 4:3 Leaders arrive at the OSCE Summit; family photo ADDS speeches
1. Wide of conference centre, various flags blowing in wind ++MUTE++
2. Close of flags ++MUTE++
3. Various of President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, greeting Japanese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Yutaka...