TED Talks
TED: How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner
No one truly understands AI, not even experts, says Helen Toner, an AI policy researcher and former board member of OpenAI. But that doesn't mean we can't govern it. She shows how we can make smart policies to regulate this technology...
PBS
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)
Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century to solve. These features turned out to be a result one of the most powerful and bizarre episodes in geologic...
SciShow
How Washington Became a Ship Graveyard: A SciShow Field Trip #3
Olympic National Park is temporarily closed as Washington, the US, and the world work to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We filmed this series in early January and are currently at home practicing social distancing. We hope...
SciShow
How the White House Killed Two Presidents
Working in the White House in the 1840s may have been more hazardous than we thought.
SciShow
How 18th-Century Medicine Killed George Washington
What killed George Washington? Turns out it was probably related to the bloodletting and other 18th-century medicine his doctors applied.
SciShow
6 Construction Failures, and What We Learned From Them
Things can go wrong in scientific experiments sometimes, but when it comes to engineering, getting things wrong can be disastrous.
TED Talks
TED: How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph
Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+...
PBS
Dream 'Remembered (August 28, 2003)
A panel of historians and activists reflect on the historic 1963 March on Washington and the enduring significance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Curated Video
Republicans continue their call for spending cuts and fiscal reform. In the GOP's weekly address, House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) accused President Barack Obama of proposing to extend Washington's "spending binge."
HEADLINE: Weekly GOP address: Time for spending reform
CAPTION: Republicans continue their call for spending cuts and fiscal reform. In the GOP's weekly address, House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) accused...
Associated Press
Guaid urges free, fair elections in Venezuela
Venezuela's opposition leader said Wednesday that he wants the European Union to broaden sanctions against members of the Venezuelan government as a way to push toward free presidential elections in the country.
Curated Video
US Sen Kerry, other Congress members visit Syria
1. John Kerry, United States Senator from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, arriving with delegation of US officials to meeting with Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa
2. Mid of al-Sharaa
3. Mid of...
Curated Video
William Daley is resigning as President Barack Obama's chief of staff just one year into the one of the most pivotal jobs in U.S. Politics
HEADLINE: Obama: Daley an 'outstanding' chief of staff
CAPTION: William Daley is resigning as President Barack Obama's chief of staff just one year into the one of the most pivotal jobs in U.S. Politics. Daley is to be replaced by Jacob...
Curated Video
Iraqis voice mixed reactions to Obama meeting national security advisors
1. Various of traffic in downtown central Baghdad
2. Various of people reading newspapers
3. Newspapers on display at newsstand
4. Close up of newspaper headline, reading: (Arabic) ''Obama starts his first day in the White House with...
Curated Video
WRAP Hu visits Microsoft, dinner at Gates'' house, adds Hu''s comments at dinner
1. Wide of Chinese President Hu Jintao walking into Microsoft building with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates
2. Wide of Hu Jintao and Bill Gates shaking hands
3. Zoom in to mid shot of Hu Jintao and Bill Gates shaking hand
4. Wide pan...
Curated Video
Emergency crews continue grim task of recovering remains
Emergency crews on Wednesday continued the grim task of recovering remains following last week's mudslide in Washington state.
Members of the medical examiner's office in Snohomish county devastated by a mudslide are working around the...
Curated Video
WRAP Wolfowitz face World Bank board to explain himself, Bush reax ADDS attourney
1. Wide exterior of the World Bank headquarters
2. Various of people outside the World Bank headquarters
3. Robert Bennett, attorney to World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, walking along street
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Bennett,...
Crash Course
Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington: Crash Course Black American History 32
The March on Washington of 1963 is an enduring and widely-known event of the Civil Rights movement. But the March has its roots in an earlier planned March on Washington that didn't happen. In 1941, labor leader A. Philip Randolph began...
TED Talks
Jane Fonda: Why I protest for climate justice
At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Fonda speaks about getting arrested multiple times during Fire Drill Fridays,...
TED Talks
TED: American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how | Bob Inglis
Former Republican member of the u.S. Congress Bob Inglis shares an optimistic message about how conservatives can lead on climate change and other pressing problems -- and how free enterprise (and working together across ideologies) hold...
SciShow
The Ancient Island That Transformed Washington: A SciShow Field Trip #2
Even though there are no volcanoes on the Olympic Peninsula, you can find lots of volcanic rocks on the beaches. This bizarre circumstance might have to do with how the ancient island transformed Washington state.
TED Talks
TED: 4 ways to make a city more walkable | Jeff Speck
Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his "general theory of walkability" -- four planning principles to transform sprawling cities of six-lane highways and 600-foot blocks into...
SciShow
How Washington Became a Ship Graveyard: A SciShow Field Trip #3
Olympic National Park is temporarily closed as Washington, the US, and the world work to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We filmed this series in early January and are currently at home practicing social distancing. We hope...
SciShow
The Riddle of Washington’s Mt. Olympus: A SciShow Field Trip #1
Stefan and Alexis are headed to Olympic National Park in Washington state to bring you some of the coolest geology stories there. This week, they explore why Mount Olympus should be taller than Mount Everest.