Hip Hughes History
The Dust Bowl Explained: US History Review
What caused the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. What was the Dust Bowl and what were the effects of the Dust Bowl. Yup, it's a Social Studies lecture designed to win you points and keep you awake. As much as the Dust Bowl allows...
Weatherthings
Great Miami Hurricane of 1926
The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 was the second strongest hurricane to strike Miami at that time. It was a Category 4, landing on September 18, 1926, after battering the Bahamas. The tremendous impact in Miami and South Florida was not...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was a powerful, devastating and deadly storm, especially for Florida, in 2022. With wind over 150mph, rain over 20” in some areas, and storm surge over 12 feet, Ian impacted millions of people, while taking over 150 lives....
Weatherthings
Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Hurricane Andrew was one of the few hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5. At the time, in 1992, it was the most expensive natural disaster in the nation's history. After devastating Homestead, Florida, and surrounding...
Weatherthings
Gulf Coast Hurricane of July, 1916
A Category 3 hurricane made landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama State line on July 5, 1916, with record wind and storm surge impact in Mobile, Alabama, and then inland flooding throughout several states. Newspapers reported, “The...
Weatherthings
Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900
The Hurricane of 1900 striking Galveston, Texas, is known as the deadliest weather disaster in the United States. An estimated 8,000 people were killed by a hurricane that arrived with little notice, leaving over 10,000 people homeless,...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Harvey - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Harvey rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017, before making landfall in Texas, as one the strongest hurricanes there in over 50 years. The high wind quickly faded after landfall, but the rain continued as the storm...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Dorian - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Dorian was the most powerful storm known ever to hit the Bahamas. Dorian remained over the northern Bahamas for more than two days as a category five storm. It tied for the second most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic as it...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Sally
Hurricane Sally made landfall, only moving at 3mph, leading to tremendous rainfall, and an extremely long period of hurricane-force winds for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida, in 2020. The impact was far worse than most people...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Irma - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Intense Hurricane Irma made 7 different landfalls in 2017 and became one of the most expensive hurricanes in the last hundred years, moving from the Caribbean to the Bahamas to the United States. Dozens of people were killed by the storm...
Curated Video
How Prostitution Built The Wild West
Putting the "wild" into Wild West, prostitution was big business in frontier communities – and gave the so-called "soiled doves" who controlled the industry wealth and influence as America grew.
Curated Video
The Tulsa Race Massacre Explained
It was one of the deadliest terror attacks in US history. So why wasn’t the Tulsa Race Massacre properly taught in US schools until 2019?
Espresso Media
Homeless People and the Water Crisis in Cape Town
The video discusses the water crisis in Cape Town and how it affects the homeless population. It talks about how the city has closed public toilets and removed taps from public centers, leaving homeless people to rely on solidarity...
Easy Languages
Easy German: Speaking Swiss German in Zürich
Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta
Louisiana was struck by two hurricanes within six weeks in 2020. Hurricane Laura was a powerful Category 4. Hurricane Delta was a Category 2. The two hurricanes made landfall in almost the same location. Combined, they took dozens of...
KERA
Some Homeless People Break Laws Just Trying to Get By
Being homeless means continually wondering what you will eat and where you will sleep at night. In some cases this means homeless people break laws by sleeping in public spaces because there isn’t room at a shelter. In Texas, community...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Maria - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
In 2018, Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It was a Category 5 storm that may have killed 3,000 people. This 90 billion-dollar extremely powerful storm was a catastrophe in property damage, destruction, and deaths due to...
Weatherthings
Kilauea 2018: Hawaii's Most Active Volcano
Kilauea is an active volcano in Hawaii that erupts every 10 to 20 years. In 2018, Kilauea eruptions on a rift zone destroyed more than 700 hundred homes, forced evacuations, and sent lava downhill to cover 14 square miles of land in...
The Wall Street Journal
A City That Works
London Breed, San Francisco's first female African-American mayor, shares the role that mentorship and internships played in her career and how business leaders can help their home communities level up.
True Calling
Beekeeping for the homeless
True Calling Grant Filmmaker: Lindsay Fitzgerald HIVES is about short film about a Vancouver-based community worker, Sarah Common, who uses beekeeping to reconnect people to their communities, the land, and themselves. As a sideways...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Julie Batten - Homelessness and Writing: Glass House Shelter Project
Julie Batten is the founder of the Glass House Shelter Project, a grassroots organization that brings college reading & writing courses into homeless shelters. She teaches writing courses at Brandeis University, Salem State University...
The Guardian
Gay, black and HIV positive: America's hidden epidemic
If you are a black, gay man in America, your risk of contracting HIV is one in two. Leah Green travels to Atlanta, Georgia, which has the largest gay and black community in the country. She finds out how stigma, education and structural...
Curated Video
Bash Shell Scripting - Alias Command
This video explains the Alias command. This clip is from the chapter "Customizing Shell Environment" of the series "Mastering Bash Shell Scripting: Automate your daily tasks [Updated for 2021]".This section helps you with customizing the...
Healthcare Triage
Condoms Prevent STD, Too Many Kids are Homeless, and Environmental Factors and Homicide
Three quick hits today. All from JAMA Pediatrics. This is Healthcare Triage News.