History Hit
The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion: The silk roads and religious movements
What were the major religions that moved along the silk roads? What items moved from west to east? The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion, Part 1
EL Consulting
Performance Review and Career Planning for an Employee
In this video, a manager conducts a performance review with an employee named Polly. They discuss the organization's future plans and how Polly's skills can fit in with those changes. They also address Polly's retirement plans and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Stephen Kinsella -- Irish Crisis Demands New Economic Thinking
Most "state of the art" macro models trivialize financial flows and largely neglect the interaction between finance and industry. That is why they failed at predicting and illuminating the collapse of the Irish economy. Stephen Kinsella...
Music Matters
Using Scalic Bass Lines - Inside the Mind of Bach
Bach loves to use scalic bass lines within his chorales as a solid foundation for building the harmonic structure. Often the bass lines interact with the other parts within the texture to create a conversational type of movement. Let's...
Science360
Fluorescent Foliage - Science Nation
The vascular system of a leaf provides its structure and delivers its nutrients. When you light up that vascular structure with some fluorescent dye and view it using time lapse photography, details begin to emerge that reveal nature's...
The Backyard Scientist
Pouring Molten salt into Water - Explosion!
Pouring Molten salt into Water - Explosion!
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Mazzucato and Wray: Making Finance Work for Innovation
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dan White - Filament Games
Dan White is founding partner and executive producer at Filament Games, an educational game design and development studio in Madison, WI. Founded in 2005, Filament's 20 title portfolio includes a diversity of STEM, literacy, and civics...
Oxford Comma
Ending Explained! Joyce's "Araby"
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of all time, but that doesn't make his work easy to understand. This video covers the major events of his most famous short story: "Araby," and pays particular attention to those confusing last...
Professor Dave Explains
Passerini Reaction
What are isonitriles good for? The Passerini reaction! This is a very neat multi-component reaction that is good for generating chemical libraries. When was it invented? What's the mechanism? What are we doing with it today? Let's find out!
Catalyst University
Purine Catabolism: Conversion of Hypoxanthine to Uric Acid
Purine Catabolism: Conversion of Hypoxanthine to Uric Acid
NASA
Gravity Assist: Life on the Rocks, with Heather Graham
To study the history of life on Earth and look for it beyond our planet, scientists in the field of astrobiology look for signs called “biosignatures.” NASA Goddard researcher Heather Graham discusses some of the oldest evidence of life...
Physics Girl
How the Hippies Saved Physics | EXPERT ANSWERS PHYSICS GIRL QUESTIONS
Professor David Kaiser discusses his new book "How the Hippies Saved Physics," what it takes to become an MIT professor, and his upcoming talk at the Cambridge Science Festival. 0:00 Intro QUESTIONS (paraphrased) 1:37 A little about the...
Music Matters
Decoding David Bowie's Harmonic Language - Composer Insights
Is There Life On Mars? A harmonic analysis of one of Bowie's best. We delve into the mind of the composer and explore what makes David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” such an original and iconic song. The main focus is on the harmonic content of...
Curated Video
Covid-19: what will happen to the global economy?
The covid-19 pandemic has caused economic chaos and uncertainty. Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, our deputy editor, answer your questions about the global economy
All Ears English
All Ears English Podcast 1485: How to Be a Well-rounded English Learner
All Ears English Podcast 1485: How to Be a Well-rounded English Learner
The Wall Street Journal
Enterprise Technology Innovation During Market Volatility
Salesforce Venture's Alex Kayyal and Fusion Fund's Shane Wall discuss the outlook for innovation in enterprise technology amid market volatility and uncertainty.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Open a Presentation with a Statistic (Part 5 of 5)
How do should you open a presentation with a statistic to grab an audience's attention? It is one solid way to begin. The very first thing you say to kick off a presentation is called the opening or “attention grabber.” The trouble is,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Scott Condie - Modeling Asset Markets when Knowledge is Ambiguous
When you flip a coin, you expect heads and tails to show up with a 50% chance each. But what if all you knew was that heads and tails each have a chance of at least 25%? That's how Scott Condie captures Knightian uncertainty in asset...
The Telegraph
Suzanne Moore on left wing puritanism
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has become the metropolitan elite it was always accused of being. In this week’s Off Script podcast Suzanne Moore joins Steven Edginton to discuss “trans ideology”, Labour’s prospects and freedom of speech.
Boulder Creek International
C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Landscapes and Heritage that Shaped His Imagination
C.S. Lewis part 11 of 11: The video explores the influence of Northern Ireland's landscapes and heritage on the life and work of CS Lewis, one of the world's most famous children's authors. From his birthplace in Belfast to the quaint...
Hip Hughes History
ISIS: A New Caliphate in the Middle East?
ISIS is now calling themselves the Islamic State and is claiming a new Caliphate with its new leader, Caliph Ibrahim. In this short primer we take a look at the history of the word Caliphate and evaluate the worthiness of the recently...
The Wall Street Journal
Bracing For Impact: AI At Work
Microsoft president Brad Smith discusses whether companies have a responsibility to retrain employees for new work with WSJ Management Bureau Chief Lynn Cook.
Seven Dimensions
5 Essentials for Powerful Presentations
Presentations can be dull for audiences. People feel nervous when presenting. Peter Quarry and Eve Ash cover five essential areas for powerful presentations. These include memorable ways to commence, managing anxiety, being succinct and...