TED Talks
TED: How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia
How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research more accessible to everyone? Education equalizer and violist Matthew Garcia thinks one way to remove barriers is to create free, virtual...
PBS
Theater in rural Appalachian Virginia brings regional themes to the stage
Barter Theatre, which opened during the Great Depression and is thriving 90 years later, is known for bringing regional themes to its rural Appalachian stage. Jeffrey Brown visited Abingdon, Virginia, to show the changing face of the...
PBS
What orchestras can teach executives about conducting business
Corporate executives are getting a lesson in leadership and communication
from the conductor’s podium thanks to the Music Paradigm, a program that
trains business leaders in the fine art of teamwork. Paul Solman goes
behind the scenes...
PBS
Decades on, millions of unexploded U.S. bombs left in Laos
The United States dropped 270 million bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973. On Tuesday, President Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the country, promising to provide the Laotian people to remove the unexploded bombs that...
Curated Video
Google Gets Aggressive With New Phones, Gadgets
Google launched an aggressive challenge to consumer electronics giants like Apple and Samsung on Tuesday, introducing a new line of smartphones called Pixel and other gadgets designed to showcase a digital helper the company calls...
Curated Video
Google gets aggressive with new phones, devices
Google launched an aggressive challenge to consumer electronics giants like Apple and Samsung on Tuesday, introducing a new line of smartphones called Pixel and other gadgets designed to showcase a digital helper the company calls...
Curated Video
Google shows off new smartphone and slew of new gadgets
LEAD IN: Google have launched an aggressive challenge to consumer electronics giants like Apple and Samsung.The company is introducing a new line of smartphones called Pixel and other gadgets designed to showcase a digital helper called...
Curated Video
BOSNIA: US COMMERCE SECRETARY RON BROWN IN PLANE CRASH
Natural Sound
A US Air Force plane carrying U-S Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and eleven others has crashed in the Adriatic close to Dubrovnik.
Brown was flying to Dubrovnik from Tuzla where he was on a visit to mark the beginning of ...
Curated Video
Kerry on ASEAN, sustainability, S China Sea
US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke of the high regard his nation held for the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) bloc as he addressed a news conference at the summit in Vientiane, Laos on Tuesday.Kerry also stated the...
Curated Video
Phelps trades gold for games at 'Call Of Duty' celebration
MICHAEL PHELPS GOES FROM GOLD TO GAMES AT 'CALL OF DUTY' CELEBRATIONMichael Phelps is going from Olympic gold to video games -- with a trip to a "Call of Duty" fan event in Inglewood, California. The 23-time gold medalist was among the...
Curated Video
Interview with UK FM Miliband after meeting with President Assad
1. Mid of British foreign secretary David Miliband listening to reporter's question
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary:
"I'm here on behalf of the United Kingdom, not on behalf of anybody else. The peace...
Curated Video
Gritty Manchester band release second album
APTN Material
London, 20th August 2003
1. Elbow photo op
2. Pan of Elbow photo op
3. C/A press
4. Wide Elbow signing autographs
5. CU Elbow signing autographs
6. MS Guy Garvey signing autograph
7. Side shot Elbow signing autographs
V2...
Curated Video
USA: WASHINGTON NATIONAL ZOO GIANT PANDAS
Washington, DC - USA Jan. 10, 2001
1. Pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian in their new home at the National Zoo
2. Shots of people watching the pandas
3. Pandas eating and walking about
4. Wide shot of presser
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Li...
Curated Video
Iraq - TV broadcast of Uday Hussein
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday, was shown on Iraqi television on Wednesday (30/4) driving a sports car in the neighbourhood where he was shot during an assassination attempt in December 1996. The television station did...
Curated Video
Indiana waiting for $314.3 million lottery winner to come forward
1. Wide shot of the Speedway petrol station where the winning Powerball lottery ticket was purchased
2. Medium shot of petrol station sign reading in English, " Powerball We Sold It 314 M (million)"
3. Tight shot of petrol station...
Curated Video
France Chirac/Arab Delegation Meeting
SHOWS: GV EXT Hotel de Matignon; TMS as Al HamadParis (Kuwait amb) arrives PAN as enters building; TMS as Saleh Alachwal (North Yemen amb) arrives PAN as into building; TMS Emir Farouk Abillama (Libyan ...
Crash Course Kids
Hunting for Properties
Remember pre-school? If not, IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER! But when you were stacking blocks and figuring out which block went into which shaped hole, you were learning about properties. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about...
Crash Course
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism: Crash Course Theater #20
Everyone knows, you need a bunch of rules to make good theater. That's what the French thought in the 17th century, anyway. The French Neoclassical revival had a BUNCH of French playwrights following a bunch of rules. Unsurprisingly,...
SciShow
Heads-Up Depression Isn’t the Only Postpartum Disorder
Having a kid does some weird things to the brain, and that can lead to or aggravate all kinds of psychiatric conditions.
Crash Course
Sega and More Mature Video Games: Crash Course Games
So we ended the last episode nearing the close of the 1980s and Nintendo had become the dominant player in the home console market, but Sega, originally a slot machine game company during World War 2, was looking to get its own console...
Crash Course
Gender, Guilt, and Fate - Macbeth, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 410
This week on Crash Course Literature, John Green is continuing to talk about Shakespeare's dark, bloody, Scottish play, Macbeth. This time around, we're looking at the play's characters operate, how the play deals with gender, and the...
TED Talks
What is deep tech? A look at how it could shape the future | Antoine Gourévitch
How do companies like SpaceX make sudden breakthroughs on decades-old challenges? Emerging tech expert Antoine Gourévitch explains how deep tech -- a new approach to innovation that merges science, engineering and design thinking -- is...
Crash Course
Psychology of Gaming: Crash Course Games
So we've talked a lot about what makes games so great in this series, but we haven't really addressed the big question: why do we play games anyway? And well, the answer is pretty complicated, especially when you consider that some...
SciShow
No You Dont Have a Reptilian Brain
You don't actually have a "reptilian brain" somewhere deep in your head making you act like a salty crocodile, so where did that idea even come from?