Institute for New Economic Thinking
Peter Victor: What’s the Difference Between Growth and Prosperity?
For the most part, economic policy makers continue to make the case that achieving growth should be the over-arching objective of the global economy. In this context, environmentalism often is seen as a cost, a trade-off that inhibits...
TLDR News
What Does the UK Actually Manufacture? - Data Dive
It's common to think that the UK doesn't actually manufacture anything these days, and assume that the UK has left manufacturing in the past. However, the stats show that's not true. Manufacturing is growing in the UK and there are some...
Curated Video
Scaling Chutzpah – Tapping Within To Grow A Really Big Business: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Starting and Growing a Social Entrepreneurially Driven Organization
Our teachers are; Brooke Stern Okoth – Founder and CEO of Soul Uganda which provides learning and life saving care to thousands of Ugandans – Dr. Neal Goldberg – Founder of Lev Leytzan = The Heart of a Clown – Provider of compassionate...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Sustainable Debt Markets
Describes green bonds, banking and real estate as it pertains to sustainable finance
Food Farmer Earth
Beyond Nutritionism: Michael Pollan's Critique of Food Culture
Michael Pollan delves into the ideology of nutritionism, criticizing the reduction of food to its nutrient components and the resulting paradox of a nation filled with nutritional knowledge yet plagued by diet-related diseases. He...
Barcroft Media
The Bodybuilder With Butterfly Skin | BORN DIFFERENT
A SEVERE skin condition hasn’t stopped one man from becoming a bodybuilder and motivational speaker, despite doctors initially saying he wouldn’t live past the age of five. Dean Clifford, now 38, has become the oldest living survivor in...
Curated Video
Calculating Exponential Growth and Decay
In this video, the teacher explains how to create and solve simple exponential functions by examining exponential growth and decay problems. Using the example of bacteria growing on a toothbrush, the teacher demonstrates how to calculate...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Nelson - Romania's Abandoned Children
Dr. Nelson’s research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development. His specific interests are concerned with the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jeff Sachs - Money Talks: The Distortion of Money in Democracy 2/5
In Part 2 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about money in American politics. Sachs sees a "system of legalized corruption" that has distorted political outcomes....
Science360
Helping the body regrow nerves
Combat, cancer and accidents - all can cause devastating nerve injuries. Sometimes, the body heals on its own. ""Your peripheral nerves, the ones in the arms and the face, have an inherent ability to regenerate, but only under ideal...
Curated Video
Forms of Business Growth: Organic and External Growth Explained
This video discusses the two main forms of growth for a business, organic growth and external growth. The narrator explains that organic growth happens when a business grows on its own terms, such as increasing production or opening more...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lori Bindig - Teachers Make a Difference - Jack Banks
Lori Bindig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and Director of the M.A. in Communication at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She earned her doctorate in Communication at the...
Guinness World Records
The Story of the Teenage Rapunzel: Breaking Hair Length Records
Nilanshi has the longest hair on a teenager - at 5ft 7 in. She describes how she looks after her hair, with the help of her mum, and how she has academic and sporting ambitions. Use to prompt discussion on why our hair means something to...
Barcroft Media
The Bodybuilder With Butterfly Skin
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, DECEMBER 2017: A SEVERE skin condition hasn't stopped one man from becoming a bodybuilder and motivational speaker, despite doctors initially saying he wouldn't live past the age of five. Dean Clifford, now 38, has...
Curated Video
UX Design for Web Developers (Video 24)
User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a company website face is finding the right balance that fulfills the objectives of the company as...
Curated Video
Entrepreneurship for Veterans: Starting and Growing a Successful Business
This video is an in-depth educational and motivational program aimed at helping veterans start and grow their own businesses. It features interviews with successful veteran entrepreneurs who offer insights and advice on topics ranging...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Gabriel McCormick - Humanizing Education #BLC15
The industrial factory model of education was designed to support a social and employment structure that no longer exists; yet we retain the trappings of this antiquated and inequitable system in our public schools. I want to solve this...
Curated Video
UX Design for Web Developers (Video 35)
User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a company website face is finding the right balance that fulfills the objectives of the company as...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur 1/4
In part 1 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
Curated Video
Marketing Strategies for Growing Your Business
This video is a guide to different marketing strategies that businesses can use to promote their products or services. It covers basic marketing concepts such as developing target market profiles, using various advertising channels...
Step Back History
The Massacre That United the Far-Right
In 1979, the murder of five communist protestors sealed an alliance between America's two largest factions of the far-right, the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. This event says a lot about the state's reply to right-wing violence and the...
All Ears English
Cook Up Your Listening Skills for Fast Conversations: AEE 1665
Cook Up Your Listening Skills for Fast Conversations: AEE 1665
KERA
Dallas Holocaust Museum and Senator's Family
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum recently opened with the help of former Texas Senator, Florence Shapiro. Shaprio is a first-generation American whose family faced tragedy throughout the Holocaust. As she grew up, Shapiro...