Intelligence Squared
Rory Stewart - The perils of foreign involvement in Afghanistan
Rory Stewart will be speaking alongside David Aaronovitch at the IQ2 event. Rory Stewart - IQ2 highlights
Mediacorp
How a Smart Wristband Helps Prevent Face Touching
Matthew Toles developed a gadget that would buzz every time he touched his face to try to break this bad habit. When the coronavirus pandemic went global, so did demand for this new technology. Learn how he developed it and how it...
Rachel's English
Happy Easter! AA vowel followed by nasal consonants - American English pronunciation
How to pronounce AA + N, M or NG. Also, learn about the idiom 'to ham it up', and study some English conversation over Easter dinner.
IDG TECHtalk
Astonishingly Easy Mapping with R and mapview
One short line of code give you a full-featured interactive choropleth map – complete with rollover text and popup data – thanks to the mapview package. See how simple it is to explore geospatial data in R.
Curated Video
Advanced Swift 2 Application Development (Video 19)
The number of smartphone users is increasing every single day, and as more and more of them are looking for new and interesting ways to improve their lives through mobile applications, the need for a language that will deploy on all...
IDG TECHtalk
Latest news from the Slack Frontiers 2019 show | TECH(talk)
At its Frontiers event this week, Slack rolled out tweaks to its popular collaboration platform – all of them aimed at helping users get their jobs done easier. Most notably, the company is looking to connect Slack with email.
Curated Video
English Listening Practice (IELTS) | Spelling Names
Understanding names in a foreign language is hard! But names are part of a language, so you need to get used to them, especially if you plan to sit an exam like the IELTS. This video is useful for anyone who wants to practise listening...
NASA
NASA's 3D View Shows Hurricane Matthew's Intensity
Scientists use satellite data to peer into the massive storm – learning how and why it changed throughout its course. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Clare Skelly
Curated Video
The Complete Java Developer Course: From Beginner to Master - ArrayLists
This video explains one of the data structures that resizes itself and can be found in the java.util package—ArrayLists. This clip is from the chapter "Arrays and ArrayLists" of the series "The Complete Java Developer Course: From...
Curated Video
Comparing Fractions to the Benchmark Fraction 3/4
In this video, students will learn how to compare fractions to the benchmark fraction 3/4 using visual models. They will understand that the numerator represents the shaded part of the whole and the denominator represents the total...
Religion for Breakfast
Gospel of Thomas: Why Is It Not In the Bible?
The Gospel of Thomas. It is a famous text, but what do we really know about it? And why didn't it make it into the New Testament canon?
IDG TECHtalk
What Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack means for the future of collaboration
Salesforce is set to acquire Slack in a $27.7 billion deal. It’s hard to ignore the fact that Salesforce is acquiring a popular enterprise chat tool in a time in which reliance on collaboration tools is extraordinarily high. This deal...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Matthew: The Meteorology
Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in 2016 as the most powerful hurricane in that country in half a century. Hundreds were killed, and hundreds were injured. Millions were impacted in Haiti. Hurricane Matthew went on to Cuba and then the...
Curated Video
Dominican entrepreneur invests savings into Coco Bus
New ReviewA viral video gaining more than 35,000 views has brought a new wave of support for Coco Bus, a Dominican Bronx food bus.
Curated Video
Sask. man dives into challenge of swimming in 70 lakes to celebrate 70th birthday
New ReviewGerald Siemens splashed into a great way to see the province. He decided to jump into one lake for every year he's been alive.
Curated Video
How to protect yourself from false health information spreading online
New ReviewThe Canadian Medical Association is calling on governments, doctors and educators to do more to counter false medical information. Matthew Johnson, the director of education at media literacy group MediaSmarts, spoke to CBC’s Dan Burritt.
Curated Video
Grieving kids meet with New York Islanders player to share a special moment
A total of 20 kids got to meet Matthew Schaefer, the Islanders' No. 1 pick.
Curated Video
SPACs Stage a Comeback: What Investors Need to Know
Matthew Frankel, contributing analyst at The Motley Fool, discusses the recent SPAC resurgence, investor interest, and what the data says about their future.
Curated Video
Ex-army reservist with alleged neo-Nazi ties arrested in U.S. for weapons cache
Patrik Mathews, a former Canadian army reservist alleged to have ties to the neo-Nazi group The Base, was arrested by the FBI with a functioning, homemade assault rifle and large cache of ammunition.
Curated Video
'Clowns' and 'monkeys': New Boeing messages show 737 MAX concerns
Redacted versions of internal communications raised questions about Boeing's efforts to evade scrutiny from regulators
Curated Video
UK election 2019: How has it played out on social media?
With just hours until the polls open ahead of the UK's snap general election, the political parties, leaders and candidates are adding the final touches to their online campaign. The latest poll data from YouGov shows the Conservatives...
Curated Video
Silver Cross Mother remembers son who died in Afghanistan
2019 Silver Cross Mother Reine Samson Dawe speaks to Rosemary Barton about raising four sons in the military and the death of her youngest son Capt. Matthew Dawe while serving in Afghanistan.
Curated Video
Ransom demanded for patients' records in Ontario data breach
The group claiming responsibility for the breach recently contacted CBC News saying they, "requested compensation in exchange for telling [the provider] how to fix their security issues and for us to not leak data online."