Instructional Video16:39
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Leanne Ussher: Learning from the Past to Design the Future (2/4)

Higher Ed
Alan Murray, Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderates the panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011: What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future? Part 2 of 4 with Leanne Ussher, Assistant...
Instructional Video8:52
Curated Video

Foreign Direct Investment: Benefits and Consequences for Developing Countries

12th - Higher Ed
The video is a lecture on market-orientated strategies, with a focus on foreign direct investment (FDI). The lecturer explains what FDI is, how it can benefit both the investing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the developing...
Instructional Video7:21
TLDR News

Should We Spend Less on Foreign Aid? - TLDR Opinionated

12th - Higher Ed
The UK spends about 0.7% of its income on foreign aid, which isn't a trivial amount of money. So in this video, we discuss wether or not the UK should reduce that amount, choosing to spend more domestically. We also examine what our...
Instructional Video9:00
Institute for New Economic Thinking

How to Rewrite the Rules of Globalization

Higher Ed
How did globalization create such discontent in developed and developing countries alike? Nobel laureate and INET grantee Joseph Stiglitz explains in this 150th episode of our “New Economic Thinking“ video series.



Stiglitz...
Instructional Video2:53
SWPictures

Scientists Work to Develop Climate-Resilient Crops to Combat Global Food Insecurity

12th - Higher Ed
The video discusses how climate change is affecting food security in developing countries, leading to protests and riots. Scientists at Aberystwyth University are researching new crops that can withstand the changing climate and are...
Instructional Video12:44
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Why Corporate-Led Globalization is Unsustainable

Higher Ed
Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more<br<br/>/>

Economist Gabriel Zucman discusses how globalization shapes the way taxes, corporate profits, and income are shi<br/>fted around the world.
Instructional Video3:29
Institute for New Economic Thinking

Free Trade Does Not Make Countries Richer

Higher Ed
In part 2 of INET's interview with Ha-Joon Chang, he says that history shows that developing countries need protectionist trade policies to nurture young businesses -- including the United States until World War II
Instructional Video4:00
FuseSchool

Protein in the diet

6th - Higher Ed
What we put in to our bodies is important to keep it working! We need to eat a balanced diet, to make sure our body gets everything it needs to carry out its activities. Our diet should include; fatty acids or lipids, carbohydrates,...
Instructional Video2:46
Global Health with Greg Martin

mHealth and Health Systems

Higher Ed
The second mHealth video shows the different examples of how cell phones are used in health systems around the world.
Instructional Video26:49
Global Health with Greg Martin

Health Systems (pt 1) - an interview with Dr. Jonathan D. Quick

Higher Ed
In this episode we interview Dr. Jonathan D. Quick, CEO of Management Sciences for Health and talk about Health Systems.
Instructional Video4:46
Science360

Electrical Engineer - Yael Maguire

12th - Higher Ed
Electrical Engineer Yael Maguire spends his time designing and building Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. These tags help businesses keep track of inventory and also increases efficiency in various industries.
Instructional Video12:21
AllTime 10s

10 Things You Didnt Know The World Is Running Out Of

12th - Higher Ed
Are we about to run out of chocolate, wine or even sperm? Humanity is certainly going through its resources at an alarming rate, so what important items are on the brink of extinction?
Instructional Video4:14
PBS

Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?

12th - Higher Ed
Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed the climate. But since the...
Instructional Video4:45
Science360

Electrical Engineer - Careers in Science and Engineering

12th - Higher Ed
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...
Instructional Video5:02
TED-Ed

Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future

9th - 12th Standards
Here is a very interesting visual for analyzing a country's shift from a pre-industrial society to one with an industrial or post-industrial economy. The video explains how a population pyramid is used to track a country's...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Cell Phone Microscope

9th - 10th
Researchers describe an portable fluorescent microscope they've built using a cell phone and inexpensive parts.