Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Collapse of American Prestige: Part 5 of INET's Interview with Charles Ferguson
The effects of the financial crisis have been global and severe, and are generating a global distrust of America, says Charles Ferguson, the director of the new documentary film "Inside Job"
Curated Video
How to Get a Band 8 in IELTS Listening
Today you’ll learn how to get a band 8 in IELTS Listening on your next exam. First of all, huge congratulations to 3 Keys IELTS student Manjeet, who just got an overall 8 on his IELTS Exam! How did he manage that? Well, he had the most...
Schooling Online
Flying Through Film: Al Pacino, Looking For Richard - Part 2 Summary
Continue the journey with Al Pacino as he figures out the tricky parts of Shakespeare’s Richard III. How important is iambic pentameter? What motivates the characters? As the plot heats up, Pacino concentrates on winning audiences over....
PBS
Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later (feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes)
Before women were asking “Am I a Carrie or a Samantha?”, they were asking “Am I a Jo or an Amy?” Before there was Edward vs Jacob, there was Laurie vs Professor Bhaer. And over the more than 150 years since Little Women was originally...
Schooling Online
Flying Through Film: Al Pacino, Looking For Richard - Part 1 Summary
This documentary is Al Pacino’s love-letter to William Shakespeare. By exploring and performing Richard III, Shakespeare’s most complex play, Pacino invites us to love the Bard too. But is this play too complex for modern audiences? And...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Solutions to Academic Corruption: Part 2 of INET's Interview with Charles Ferguson
How can we address corruption in academia? Charles Ferguson, the director of the new documentary film "Inside Job" says that we need limits to financial conflicts of interest in academia, as well as a disciplinary system
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Challenging Top Economists as Corrupt: Part 3 of INET's Interview with Charles Ferguson
After asking academics and economists the tough questions, the director of the film "Inside Job" says that he was surprised by the way they responded
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Can AI Free Humans from ‘Routine’ Work?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace routine jobs, says Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. But done right, that process could allow us to “pursue dreams, spend time with our loved ones and find out why we exist as humans” Dr. Lee talks with...
The Guardian
Lasting Marks - the 16 men put on trial for sadomasochism in Thatcher's Britain
The story of 16 men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press – but not by those in the dock. Told through court documents and newspaper reports...
Kult America
Tea's of Arabia
I'm a huge fan of tea and I'm a huge fan of travel so when I visited the middle east (Qatar) for the first time ever I thought it could be fun to try the assortment of tea on the street and hopefully meet some locals in the process. My...
TLDR News
The Truth About UK Immigration 2018 - Data Dive
There has been a lot of misinformation surrounding immigration statistics and Brexit. So we dive into the official statistics published by the Office of National Statistics. How many people are immigrating to the UK and is this actually...
Economics Explained
Why Amazon is Begging For Regulations: The Twisted Economics of Amazon
In two short decades, Amazon has grown from a modest online bookstore to an international conglomerate. A conglomerate that seems hellbent on moving into every growing industry out there. Amazon will only be the second company this...
TLDR News
Why BBC Offices are being Raided in India
Following controversy over a BBC documentary about Indian President Modi, there's been growing tensions between the BBC and the Indian state. This week things seem to have escalated - with reports the Indian government has raided the BBC...
The Guardian
White Fright
In 2015, the community of Islamberg discovered that a Tennessee minister was plotting the deadliest attack on US soil since 9/11 against their village. Why have Americans heard nothing about him, and why has the safety of this community...
The Guardian
Cops and Robbers
Growing up in the Jamaica district of Queens in the 70s and 80s, Corey Pegues played cops and robbers like all the other kids on the block but he never expected to become both.
The Guardian
FGM - film that changed the law in Kurdistan
Two filmmakers spent almost a decade reporting the greatest taboo subject in Kurdish society: female genital mutilation. Nabaz Ahmed and Shara Amin persuaded people to talk about the effects of FGM and the film they made helped get the...
The Guardian
Our House
Brian was down on his luck and sleeping rough in Liverpool. Lawrence was a successful hotelier and property developer. David was a self-proclaimed hippy in a dead-end job. Together they formed an unlikely alliance and created a homeless...
The Guardian
Chalk girl
Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental infamous hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle...
The Guardian
Space to Be: the fight to keep this Belfast women’s centre open
In the heart of the Village, a loyalist area in Belfast, the Windsor Women’s Centre has fought a 30-year battle to keep its doors open. The centre, an oasis for vulnerable women, is deeply rooted in the community. As it faces financial...
The Guardian
Pitching up
How Ireland’s ancient sports are helping to integrate children in the country's most ethnically diverse town.
The Guardian
Fish story
Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, film-maker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort...
The Guardian
Qandeel
The life, death and impact of Pakistan’s working-class icon Qandeel Baloch, killed in 2016 after becoming a social media celebrity. This film tells Qandeel’s story through her own videos and media appearances. A young, fearless woman who...
The Guardian
Conectifai
The latest Guardian documentary finds out what happened when Cuba’s phone company installed wifi routers in 18 public parks
The Guardian
The Climate and the Cross
An internal battle is simmering among US Christians over whether climate change is a call to protect the Earth, the work of God to be welcomed, or does not exist at all.