Crash Course
Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History
Well, they're not really "magic." Maybe "illusion" is a better way to say it. As we begin this journey of the history of cinema, we need to understand how movies trick our brains into even understanding that a movie is a movie. In this...
TED Talks
My wish: A global day of film - Jehane Noujaim
The first step to world peace is for people to meet each other. We can't all travel the world at the same time, but we can meet each other in other ways. In this talk, Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world...
TED Talks
TED: Powerful photos that honor the lives of overlooked women | Smita Sharma
In some parts of the world, girls are as likely to be married off or trafficked as they are to be educated. Photojournalist and TED Fellow Smita Sharma thoughtfully depicts overlooked girls and young women, while making sure not to...
TED Talks
David Griffin: How photography connects us
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
TED Talks
TED: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history | Chance Coughenour
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures -- your pictures -- to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour...
TED Talks
Photographing the hidden story - Ryan Lobo
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting...
TED Talks
TED: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of earth | Zaria Forman
Zaria Forman's large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility. Join her as she discusses the meditative process of...
TED Talks
TED: A mother and son united by love and art | Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
An art school professor once told Deborah Willis that she, as a woman, was taking a place from a good man -- but the storied photographer says she instead made a space for a good man, her son Hank Willis Thomas. In this moving talk, the...
SciShow
Dark Energy Camera
Hank brings us news of the most sensitive digital camera in the universe, poised to help astronomers explain the mystery of why the universe is speeding up instead of slowing down as Einstein's theory of General Relativity would predict.
TED Talks
Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others
Why do some people struggle more than others to keep off the pounds? Social psychologist Emily Balcetis shows research that addresses one of the many factors: our vision. In an informative talk, she shows how when it comes to fitness,...
TED Talks
Miru Kim: My underground art explorations
At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden spaces into sharp focus.
TED Talks
TED: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you | Catherine Crump
A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader. These cameras are innocuously placed all across small-town America to catch known...
SciShow
A Telescope Bigger Than the Solar System
It turns out if you’d like to take a deeper look into the universe, the universe itself might actually help you do that!
TED Talks
TED: Impossible photography | Erik Johansson
Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping...
TED Talks
TED: The passing of time, caught in a single photo | Stephen Wilkes
Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-dimensional still photograph. Journey with him to iconic locations like the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy
The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later...
SciShow
Why Death Photography Is So Helpful for Grief
Please Note: This episode contains post-mortem photographs: those of people taken after their death. If you would prefer not to see those images, please feel welcome to look away from the screen at 0:17 to 0:27 and listen along. Grief is...
Curated Video
Advancements in Underwater Photography: Capturing Clearer Images
This video discusses the challenges of underwater photography and introduces a new system that aims to capture clearer and more objective images underwater. By using a special submergible camera and mathematical algorithms based on the...
Curated Video
Landmarks - China's Great Wall
CHINA S GREAT WALL CHINA S GREAT WALL IS ONE OF THE FEW MAN MADE OBJECTS THAT CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE. IT STRETCHES ACROSS MORE THAN 6,400 KM OF WINDING LANDSCAPE, AND DURING ITS 2,000-YEAR HISTORY, THE WALL HAS SURVIVED THREATS FROM...
Curated Video
Discovery of DNA
The story of a race between two teams of scientists in the 1950s - Francis Crick and James Watson, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins - desperate to be the first to unlock the molecular structure of DNA. Biology - Cells And DNA -...
Wonderscape
Alexander Graham Bell’s Other Inventions and Contributions
This video highlights Alexander Graham Bell's achievements beyond the telephone, including his efforts to develop a bullet detection device to help save President James Garfield and his role in transforming National Geographic into a...
Great Big Story
Loren Worthington, Capturing the spirit of adaptive sports through photography
Meet Loren Worthington, a photographer transforming his paralysis into a lens on adaptive sports.
Curated Video
The Day Henry Met... a Camera
Today Henry meets a camera. Camera is down in the dumps because he thinks his photographs are boring and he wants to photograph something no one else has. In the end Henry and Camera find the Loch Ness Monster who just loves having her...
Curated Video
Sources: Primary and Secondary
Sources: Primary and Secondary explains the differences between primary and secondary sources, citing at least examples of each type of source.