Crash Course
Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1: Crash Course Literature 205
In which John Green teaches you about Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Sure, you know Frankenstein the cultural phenomenon, but how much do you know about the novel that started it all? You'll learn about the Romantic movement in...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie
Before the creation of humanity, the Greek gods won a great battle against a race of giants called the Titans. Most Titans were destroyed or driven to the eternal hell of Tartarus. But the Titan Prometheus, whose name means foresight,...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie
In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a challenge to a few literary guests he had gathered in his house on Lake Geneva: Who could write the most chilling ghost story? This question sparked an idea in eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley who, over the...
Curated Video
Mythology: Pandora
Mr. Griot provides information about the characteristics of mythological stories as he shares the myth "Pandora."
Curated Video
Why Prometheus Risked Everything For Humans
Greek Gods are notorious for petty squabbling, brutal punishments, and meddling in people’s love lives. But in the myth of Prometheus, an immortal makes the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of humankind. A wily Titan who stole fire from...
Curated Video
Turkey, Ancient City Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias was the metropolis of the region and Roman province of Caria. White and blue grey Carian marble was extensively quarried from adjacent slopes in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, for building facades and sculptures. Marble...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Cycliophora: Ring-Bearing Symbions
Creatures in the cycliophora phylum have a particularly strange structure and lifestyle. All of these animals live their lives attached symbiotically to the mouthparts of cold-water lobsters. Let's look at their anatomy and reproductive...
Curated Video
Turkey, Aphrodisias Sebasteion
The Sebasteion, or Augusteum, was jointly dedicated, according to a 1st-century inscription on its propylon, "To Aphrodite, the Divine Augusti and the People". A relief found in the ruins of the south portico represented a...
Curated Video
Hands-On Auto DevOps with GitLab CI - Application Monitoring with Prometheus
Prometheus is a popular monitoring application that integrates well with Kubernetes. GitLab can install it into our Kubernetes cluster automatically. • Configure our application’s service for scraping by Prometheus • Deploy our...
Curated Video
Hands-On Auto DevOps with GitLab CI - Application Metrics Collection
To monitor our application, we need it to continually produce metrics that can be collected by a monitoring application. • Add a Prometheus client library to our Node.js application • Configure a metrics endpoint that reports current...
Oxford Comma
Ancient Greek Tragedy: An Introduction and How I Fell in Love with Teaching It
Throughout my traditional education I hated ancient tragedies. But years down the road, I was told I had to teach Antigone... This video explains how I went from hating to loving Greek tragedies, and how, by putting the works into some...
Professor Dave Explains
Alien: Covenant - How Did David Create the Neomorphs?
By now we've hopefully all seen Alien: Covenant. If you haven't, go see it right away! It's awesome, and this has spoilers. After you've seen it, you'll probably have a few questions, just as I did. The main thing that left me wondering,...
Packt
Kafka Monitoring and Operations
This video explains the Kafka monitoring setup and operations. This clip is from the chapter "Kafka in the Enterprise for Admins" of the series "Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners".In this section, you will work on...
PBS
How Greek Mythology Inspires Us (feat. Lindsay Ellis) | PBS Digital Studios
Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New Yorkers note the passing of President Franklin D Roosevelt
Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center in New York under flags at half mast / VS New Yorkers arrive and depart St. Patrick's Cathedral / note: exact day not known
Getty Images
HA Skaters ice skating at rink in Rockefeller Plaza / New York City, New York, United States
HA Skaters ice skating at rink in Rockefeller Plaza / New York City, New York, United States
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Powerful Dettifoss waterfall, Iceland
Powerful Dettifoss, the biggest waterfall in Iceland @ 24 FPS
History of Our World
Podcast History of Our World: 3 Legacy of Prometheus
History of the World podcast in which host, Rob Monaco, presents and discusses the story of what scientists know and hypothesize about prehistorical Homo Erectus, Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens during the paleolithic era. [28:09]