SciShow
The Rocky Mountains Are in the Wrong Place
Mountain ranges usually don't form in the middle of continents. Except for the Rocky Mountains. We'll go into the baffling Laramide Orogeny and a few possible reasons why the Rockies might be in the wrong place.
PBS
Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
Paleontologists have spent the better part of two decades debating whether Coelophysis ate its own kind. It turns out, the evidence that scientists have had to study in order to answer that question includes some of the strangest and...
SciShow
Are We Making More Bermuda Triangles?
One reason the Bermuda Triangle has scared people for generations is the seaweed. And thanks to eutrophication and other human causes, that Sargassum seaweed is starting to travel the world. Here's how we're accidentally making more of...
SciShow
How Did North America End Up With a Marsupial?
Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how they got so far away from their Australian relatives is a bit of a mystery.
PBS
The science of using your expectations to relieve pain
Traditional healing is used around the world, from acupuncture to laying of hands to yoga. How do these alternative remedies work to heal the body and the brain? As part of our series ScienceScope and in cooperation with the Pulitzer...
PBS
How faculty mentors can help first-generation students succeed
A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA...
PBS
On the U.S.-Mexico border, crowds of migrants and a 'broken' system
May saw the highest number of crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border since 2007. Due to the surge and a new Trump administration policy that keeps asylum seekers in Mexico until their claims are processed, communities on both sides of the...
Associated Press
Mexicans mark 80th anniversary of the caped crusader
It's no joker. People in Mexico City gathered Saturday to celebrate 'Batman Day' and to mark the 80th anniversary of the appearance of crimefighter Bruce Wayne and his masked identity.
Curated Video
Border town prepares for influx of expatriate voters
1. Wide of arch with sign reading "Welcome to Tijuana"
2. Wide view of campaign banners
3. Woman placing voting material in box IFE (Federal Electoral Institute) building
4. Mid view of man carrying voting material in IFE (Federal...
Curated Video
MEXICO: CRACKDOWN ON ZAPATISTA REBELS
1. Maria Gloria Benavides paraded before reporters (Feb 10)
2. Cache of seized weapons (Feb 10)
3. SOT: Zedillo (Feb 9)
4. Boy selling newspaper (Feb 9)
5. Pro-Zapatista demonstrations (Feb 9)
6. Commandante Marcos (file)
7. Pictures of...
Curated Video
APEC leaders arrive for final talks, group photo, Bush jogging
1. Los Cabos Golf resort
2. US President George W. Bush jogging
3. Los Cabos
4. Mexican President Vicente Fox waiting for leaders
5. Arrival of Australian Prime Minister, John Howard
6. Arrival of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
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Curated Video
Presidential candidate at rally
1. Wide of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rally
2. Mid view of Lopez Obrador on stage
3. Close up of Lopez Obrador on stage
4. Mid view of Democratic Revolution Party supporters with banners and flags
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Andres Manuel...
Curated Video
USA : WASHINGTON : IMF AND WORLD BANK MEETINGS CONCLUDE
English/Nat
The 50th annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are wrapping up in Washington.
This year, the organizations' delegates find themselves at once looking back with pride -- and forward with some...
Curated Video
Violence as police try to evict squatters
1. Mid shot of police officers throwing rocks at squatters to wide shot of police firing gun
2. Wide shot of hundreds of anti-riot police walking and on horseback approaching squatters
3. Squatters firing makeshift rockets at police
4....
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: GOVERNMENT AND LEFTIST REBELS AGREE TO CEASE FIRE
Natural Sound
Central America's longest war is finally over.
Leftist rebels and government negotiators have agreed to a permanent cease-fire. The move ends a civil war that had lasted 36 years and taken 140-thousand lives.
The rebels...
Curated Video
Half a ton of cocaine found in second largest seizure
1. Pull out of box with books to packages of cocaine on the floor
2. Various of cocaine packages
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Alberto Gomez, Director of Colombia's Anti-narcotics Police:
"This is the result of the combined efforts of...
Curated Video
GRAPHIC Thousands pack Zocalo Square for a mass nude photo shoot
1. Participants waiting to sign-up for photo shoot
2. Participants holding up white pieces of paper
3. Police at gate watching participants enter photo shoot area
4. Participants entering gate
5.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Male participant,...
Curated Video
Hundreds of chefs gather in attempt to set world record
1. Wide pan from "Angel of the Independence" monument to chefs gathered for record
2. Various of chefs gathering
3. Pan left as group gather for photo
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ernestina Sodi, organiser:
"The expectation that we might break...
Curated Video
Japanese PM Abe and Mexican President Pena Nieto agree to strengthen bilateral ties, joint briefing
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Friday to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries by signing several agreements ranging from the energy sector to tourism and education.
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Jesse Jackson arrives to meet Fox and quash tensions
1. Various of Mexico City international airport
2. Reverend Jesse Jackson and Ann Marie Tallman entering presser
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reverend Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader:
"We accepted the invitation because we're concerned...
Curated Video
Catholic faithful celebrate beatification of John Paul II
Mexico City, Mexico - 1 May 2011
1. Wide of worshippers looking at screen during beatification of Pope John Paul II, applauding
2. Close up of worshipper's face
3. Close up of another worshipper's eyes
4. Mid of large screen
5. Wide of...
Curated Video
Mexicanos exhiben sus disenos elaborados hechos con el rabano
Elaborados disenos como este formaron parte de las pequenas esculturas hechas de rabanos en el colorido festival conocido como "Noche de Rabanos."
El lunes por la noche residentes locales y turistas salieron al centro de Oaxaca, Mexico...
Curated Video
MEXICO: McCaffrey TO COORDINATE ANTI-DRUGS TRAFFICKING
English/Nat
U-S drug czar Barry McCaffrey arrived in Mexico on Tuesday to see Mexico's efforts in fighting drug trafficking.
McCaffrey says that the focus of his visit is to co-ordinate cooperation between the two countries.
During his...
Curated Video
Obrador arrives with pig, sheep and chickens, he claims used as bribes for votes
Mexico's leftist presidential candidate has shown off sheep and some chickens to the media to a news conference, presenting them as evidence that bribes were given to voters by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in exchange for...