Curated Video
Digging Deeper
Historian Nile Green, UCLA, describes why the notion of a “Clash of Civilizations” between the West and the Islamic world is inappropriate, while describing how the model of “religious economy” can help us improve both understanding and...
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Nile River Valley Civilization
Nile River Valley Civilization examines how the Nile River Valley Civilization was able to flourish by analyzing the benefits of its location.
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Reversing Assumptions
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) relates a formative insight that she received as a student from the eminent Byzantist Alexander Kazhdan about how to properly look at what makes a "great civilization."
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Can AI Save Us From Climate Change?
Climate change is happening. Can AI help us prepare for the consequences? In this video, we’re discussing ways that AI can be and is currently being used to help us better understand the phenomenon of climate change and the ways that our...
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The Statistics of Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, discusses Frank Drake's famous attempt to evaluate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.
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Frank Drake's Agenda
SETI Institute astronomer Jill Tarter describes the thinking behind the famous Drake Equation, characterizing key aspects of our ignorance of the existence of alien civilizations
60 Second Histories
Building an Egyptian pyramid - part 1
This short history video gives an insight into how the Egyptian pyramids were built and the people who built them.
60 Second Histories
Women in the Olympic Games
This short video explains the role of Women in the Olympic Games and mentions their own Heraia games.
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The Rosetta Stone
This short history video explains what the Rosetta Stone is; its discovery and why it was important in helping scholars discover the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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What happened to the Ancient Maya?
An explorer discusses some of the reasons why the Maya civilization may have disappeared
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Which Roman gods are which?
This brief video explores some of the gods worshiped by the Romans, like Jupiter, king of the gods and Mars the god of war and explains that people made sacrifices to the gods
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Builders and engineers in the Roman Empire
A Roman legionary describes the amazing construction projects undertaken by Roman builders such as the Coliseum and the Cloaca Maxima and includes the concrete they made and the fabulous arches
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Living in a Roman town
This short video explores what the streets of Rome looked like, what kind of buildings there were such as the forum and basilica and why there were so many takeaways.
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Pyramid town
An Egyptian worker describes the town that grew up beside the Pyramids of Giza. He explains where the workers and their families lived and also what they ate.
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A Roman legionary's equipment
This short video describes the personal belongings, equipment, food and water the legionaries had to carry when they conquered new lands
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Egyptian gods - part 2
An Egyptian priestess continues the story of the Egyptian gods, referring to Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephthys
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Maya mathematics
This short video takes a brief look at the Ancient Maya numbering system which was based on 20 rather than 10 like ours is now.
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Pyramid workers
An Egyptian pyramid worker describes where the workers came from, where they lived and also explains how they worked in crews under a foreman.
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An Ancient Greek Marketplace
An Ancient Greek farmer explains all the things to see and do on a busy trip to market.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Johnny E. Williams - Teachers Make a Difference
Johnny E. Williams is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003) and Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). The former book examines the...
60 Second Histories
A Roman slave woman
This video shows what life can be like for a slave woman, it shows a Celt who had been captured in England and taken to Rome to serve as a slave
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Roman baths
A Roman legionary describes a Roman bathhouse and the various rooms and facilities available such as the palaestra or gym and the caldarium and frigidarium.
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5 Scientific Signs Aliens COULD Exist
Phobias can be debilitating, but some of them are simply bizarre. Here are the strangest things that some poor people are actually terrified of.
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Herophilus and Erasistratus
In this short video, Galen talks about the discoveries of Herophilus and Erasistratus