TED Talks
TED: What happens when we deny people abortions? | Diana Greene Foster
How does getting an abortion — or not — influence a woman's life? Demographer Diana Greene Foster puts forward the results of The Turnaway Study, her landmark work following nearly 1,000 women through abortion or childbirth, presenting...
PBS
Political experts examine America’s divisions heading into 2024 election
All this year, Judy Woodruff has been exploring the deep divisions we see playing out every day in the country. She’s distilled much of that reporting into a special airing Tuesday night on PBS. For that, she recently sat down with a...
PBS
States Push For Harsher School Discipline Practices To Address Student Misbehavior
School administrators and teachers are concerned about ongoing problems with student conduct that are disruptive and difficult to deal with. Several states are beginning to propose big changes about how to handle it. We hear from...
PBS
Memphis midwives work to address racial disparities in care
More women in America die from pregnancy-related complications than in any other developed country in the world, and black women are most affected. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports on one clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, where...
Curated Video
NJ Transit Service in Hoboken Suspended
NJ Transit service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, all but assuring a painful commute for many. Gov. Chris Christie said engineers were examining the station's structural integrity and it was too soon to say when it might reopen to...
Curated Video
TIBET: CALL TO BOYCOTT TOURISM
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Tibet is China's poorest province, still heavily dependent on the central government in Beijing for most of its revenue.
Tourism has been a crucial source of cash for the remote, mountainous region.
But some human...
Curated Video
Update on Rice presser, comments on Iraq and China
1. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walking up to lectern for press conference
2. Cameras
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:
"Well on the second matter, I have had discussions with Israeli leaders not...
Curated Video
China - Visit US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown opened a landmark trade mission
to China on Sunday (28/8), saying human rights were a vital U.S.
interest but that his top priority was business.
0.00 u.s. commerce secretary ron brown coming down...
TED Talks
TED: 7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe
More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The way we build new cities will be at the heart of so much that matters, from climate change...
TED Talks
Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)
In this factual talk, geneticist Wendy Chung shares what we know about autism spectrum disorder — for example, that autism has multiple, perhaps interlocking, causes. Looking beyond the worry and concern that can surround a diagnosis,...
TED Talks
How vulnerability makes you a better leader | Tracy Young
As the founder of a startup, Tracy Young often worried that employees and investors valued male CEOs more -- and that being a woman compromised her position as a leader. In this brave, personal talk, she gives an honest look at the...
TED Talks
TED: Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power | Erika Cheung
In 2014, Erika Cheung made a discovery that would ultimately help bring down her employer, Theranos, as well as its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, who claimed to have invented technology that would transform medicine. The decision to become...
TED-Ed
Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? | Alex Gendler
In 1996, a British Airways plane flew from New York to London in a record-breaking two hours and fifty-three minutes. Today, however, passengers flying the same route can expect to spend no less than six hours in the air — twice as long....
TED-Ed
Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment | Susan M. Reverby
Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate,...
SciShow
What We Don't Know about E-Cigs
You might have one of them, e-cigarette. Some people switch to it from average tobacco to quit smoking. But is it really a better and safer option for you?
Curated Video
What is Psychological Safety? ...and Why Does it Matter?
In this video, I answer the question, 'What is Psychological Safety?' I'll also discuss why it's important in Project Management. In 1965, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis defined psychological safety as: ‘an atmosphere where one can take...
Curated Video
Landmarks - Tigris River
TIGRIS RIVER IN BIBLICAL TIMES THE TIGRIS RIVER WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE FOUR RIVERS TO HAVE FLOWED FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THE FAST FLOWING RIVER ALONG WITH IT SLOWER SISTER RIVER, THE EUPHRATES, FLOWS FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF...
Curated Video
Landmarks - Grand Canyon
IN ONE PANORAMIC SWEEP YOU CAN SEE NEARLY HALF OF THE EARTH'S 4.6 BILLION-YEAR HISTORY. EROSION HAS EXPOSED ROCK STRATA RANGING FROM THE 1.7-BILLION-YEAR OLD VISHNU SCHIST OF THE INNER GORGE, TO THE PALE KAIBAB LIMESTONE DEPOSITED 250...
Wonderscape
The Impact of the Louisiana Purchase
This video explores the significant effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States. It discusses how the acquisition doubled the country's size, opened up new trade routes along the Mississippi River, and enabled westward...
Curated Video
Building Microservices API in Go - Introduction to Hexagonal Architecture
In this video, we will explore the principles and concepts of hexagonal architecture, including ports and adapters, and how it can be used to design flexible and maintainable applications in Go. This clip is from the chapter "Application...
Curated Video
Fundamentals of Secure Software - WAF (Web Application Firewall)
This video Introduces you to WAF (Web Application Firewall).
Healthcare Triage
Ways We Can Mitigate Climate Change
We’ve spent a bunch of time this year examining the many, many health effects of climate change. And while we are no experts on climate change and what the best solutions are to address it, we are clearly interested in addressing it for...
Healthcare Triage
How to Talk About Misinformation
In the first part of this three-episode series we touched on the fact that misinformation has been around for a long time, and that it may seem like a recent problem because the internet has forever changed the way we share information....
Curated Video
Deep Learning - Artificial Neural Networks with Tensorflow - How to Choose Hyperparameters
In this video, we will understand how to choose hyperparameters. This clip is from the chapter "Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks" of the series "Deep Learning - Artificial Neural Networks with TensorFlow".In this section, we will...