MinuteEarth
How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)
We’ve changed - and standardized - the way diseases get named because the old way was often stigmatizing and confusing.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to increase your happiness | TED-Ed
Many people would say the connection between happiness and gratefulness is very simple: when you are happy, you are grateful. But think again. Is it really the happy people that are grateful? Quite a number of people have everything that...
TED Talks
TED: How comedy helps us deal with hard truths | Roy Wood Jr.
There's a saying that comedy is tragedy plus time. Perhaps that's why some of our biggest problems feel easiest to manage with a dose of humor. Comedian, journalist and actor Roy Wood Jr. has spent his career finding the silly in the...
PBS
Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?
In June, the consortium of Europe’s top particle physicists published their vision for the next several years of particle physics experiments in the EU. A big part of that is the Future Circular Collider, which, if it happens, will...
PBS
Is Time Travel Impossible?
Time travel stories are cool because both the past and future are somehow more interesting that the present and because everyone wants a redo. But so far it appears we’re doomed to live consumed by regret in the eternal, boring present....
TED Talks
TED: Our creative relationship with AI is just beginning | K Allado-McDowell
K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a...
SciShow
Why Are Champagne Bubbles So Tidy?
Have you ever noticed that the bubbles in your glass of Champagne are just.... fancier than other sparkling drinks? They form those lovely little columns of bubbles in a way that nothing else does - and it turns out there's some neat...
SciShow
What Happens When You Faint?
Why do we faint? Because sometimes, your nervous system just doesn’t know what to do with itself.
SciShow
5 Amazing Record-Breaking Caves
Caves are fascinating, but these ones are some of the most fascinating, both in and out of this world. Hosted by: Stefan Chin
SciShow
Why Can't We Design A Bear-Proof Trash Can?
Why is it so hard for us to keep the bears out of our trash? Well, it turns out that trash cans are basically like giant food puzzles for the bears, and they are determined to win... But, we can use their wily trash-nabbing instincts...
SciShow Kids
Making a Fountain of Soda! | Summer Experiments | SciShow Kids
Anthony and Squeaks are experimenting to learn about soda bubbles and how they can use them to make a great soda fountain!
PBS
How Texas gun owners feel about background checks, red flag laws
In the aftermath of recent mass shootings, calls for expanding gun safety regulations have increased. Although some of these ideas are popular among Americans overall, how do gun owners specifically feel about them? William Brangham...
PBS
At Greek Refugee Camp, There Are Few Defenses Against Covid-19 Threat
Human rights activists and medical nonprofits are calling on the Greek government to evacuate overcrowded refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea, where an outbreak of COVID-19 would likely cause humanitarian catastrophe. Concerns are...
Curated Video
Organic farming provides fesh food in Cuba ++First run 13th August 2016++
LEAD IN: Cuba's former President Fidel Castro celebrates his 90th birthday today (August 13, 2016).Things have changed on the island nation since Castro's brother Raul replaced him as president in February 2008.Cuba's urban organic farms...
Curated Video
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in New York on Saturday, ending a diplomatic tussle that lasted for weeks and tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng flew to the U.S. with his family
HEADLINE: Blind Chinese activist arrives in New York
CAPTION: A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in New York on Saturday, ending a diplomatic tussle that lasted for weeks and tested...
Curated Video
Nearly 4 years into his papacy, Pope criticised for being 'out of touch'
Tarquinia, Italy - March 25, 2009
1. Wide church of San Francesco in Tarquinia
2. Mid nuns entering church
3. Wide of procession entering church
4. Close of Archbishop Raymond Burke
5. Archbishop and priests
6. Close up priest kissing...
Curated Video
WRAP Businesses and airport reopening, recovery, cleanup
1. Man dragging fallen tree limbs out of New Orleans streets
2. More of men cleaning up fallen trees
3. Workers in yellow hard hats chopping up trees
4. Workers carrying away large pieces of trees
5. Wide pan of the Louis Armstrong New...
Curated Video
WRAP Airport, cleanup of oil spill, destruction, voxpops, bridge being repaired
1. Wide of Middle East Airlines plane landing on Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport
2. Various of plane moving across tarmac
3. Pilots greeting from cockpit's window
4. Lebanese soldiers
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed...
Curated Video
Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press. AP Gold Writer Doug Ferguson says he expects to see Woods in Augusta. (March 12)
HEADLINE: AP Analysis: When will Tiger return?
CAPTION: Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press. AP Gold Writer Doug Ferguson says he expects...
Curated Video
BULGARIA: SOFIA: LEAD UP TO ELECTION
Bulgarian/English
On Saturday Bulgaria will decide whether to reinstate the ousted Socialist Party or hand power to the Union of Democratic Forces.
But which ever party wins the election, the new government will face huge pressure to ...
Curated Video
Troops receive Xmas goodies
Headquarters for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, southeast of Iskandariyah (about 60 km south of Baghdad)
1. Wide shot soldier opening up box
2. Christmas decoration on tree
3. Mid shot soldier reading mail
4. Cutaway socks for...
Curated Video
UN inspectors raid house of Iraqi scientist, Iraqi briefing
1. Various shots following UN vehicles to an Iraqi scientist's house in the middle class Baghdad suburb of Razaliya
2. Various shots of inspectors that have arrived at the scene
3. Various shots of UN inspectors looking at the house
4....
Crash Course
Altered States - Crash Course Psychology
You may think you know all about hypnosis from the movies. Zoolander, The Manchurian Candidate, etc... but there's a whole lot more going on. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank tells us about some of the many altered states...
Crash Course
Modern Life: Crash Course European History
So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers...