Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that...

What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view.

The Enneagram, like many personality tests, isn't well backed-up by scientific research, but its popularity in spite of that can give us a window into how the human mind works.

In the vast sweep of history, even an empire can be forgotten. In this wide-ranging talk, Gus Casely-Hayford shares origin stories of Africa that are too often unwritten, lost, unshared. Travel to Great Zimbabwe, the ancient city whose...

French humor can be farcical, coarse, or extremely literate. Indeed, it can be situational, bitingly sarcastic, and heavy on the intellectual wit. The French tend to be self-deprecating—although, like most people, they'd rather not be...

Howcast - Learn about the personality traits of people born under the Aquarius zodiac sign from astrology expert Lawrence Greco in this Howcast video.

Pupil outcome: I can identify similarities and differences between ‘Sonnet 29’, ‘Love's Philosophy’ and ‘Letters from Yorkshire’. Key learning points: - Shelley, Barrett-Browning and Dooley use natural imagery in their poems to depict an...

James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution” – but he was so much more than that. As author of the Virginia Plan and the Bill of Rights, his political genius proved vital in the founding of our nation.

After leaving Dublin at age 22, James Joyce's life became a continuous journey of physical and intellectual exploration, which is reflected in his masterwork "Ulysses," inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The novel, which Joyce spent seven...

In which John discusses the causes of the French Revolution and its initial events, including the French debt crisis under King Louis XVI, the convocation of the estates general, the rise of the third estate, the formation of the...

What is Intellectual Property?

The average American will send and receive around 3,000 text messages every month. But Founding Father Alexander Hamilton relied on his his trusty portable writing desk to draft countless letters and write some of the most important...

Leslie T. Fenwick, PhD, is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar who served as Dean of the Howard University School of Education for nearly a decade. A former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard...

Zeina is Managing Director at The Carlyle Group advising on Corporate Private Equity and European buyout opportunities. Prior to joining Carlyle, Zeina was an Associate at European Digital Capital, a technology venture capital fund....

This video explains the concept of intellectual property.
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This video explains the concept of intellectual property.
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This clip is from the chapter "Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP Domain 1 - Security and Risk Management" of the series "CISSP® Certification...

In this series of videos "60 Seconds with ..." I've asked each person to tell me (in a minute or less) about that one special teacher who made a difference in their life.

This video provides a brief history of gyms and highlights their increasing popularity in modern society. It explores the origins of gyms in ancient Greece and their evolution into modern fitness centers. The video also discusses the...

Jamila Lyiscott, an assistant professor of social justice education at the University of Massachusetts, explores the intersection of language, race, and power to understand educational inequity. She challenges the policing of language in...

James C. Kaufman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology in 2001. Kaufman is an international leader in the field of...