TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do beavers build dams? | Glynnis Hood
Nestled in the forests of Canada sits the world's longest beaver dam. This 850-meter-long structure is large enough to be seen in satellite imagery and has dramatically transformed the region, creating a pond containing 70 million liters...
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
Uneasy Peace Takes Hold In Contested Region Of Azerbaijan
Ethnic-Armenian forces last week handed over two regions to Azerbaijani
control as part of Russia-brokered armistice that ended the six-week war
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Moscow has sent peacekeepers to the
ethnic-Armenian...
Curated Video
Kerry's Vigorous Defense of TPP Trade Deal
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus064002U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Congress to adopt a landmark 12-nation Asia-Pacific trade deal, arguing that rejection would badly damage U.S. credibility and national...
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Kerry's Vigorous Defense of TPP Trade Deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Congress to adopt a landmark 12-nation Asia-Pacific trade deal, arguing that rejection would badly damage U.S. credibility and national security.Kerry said Wednesday that failure to pass the...
Curated Video
Japan, US officials discuss NKo nuclear test
The US Special Representative for North Korea policy on Sunday said the US and Japan were looking at a "full range of possibilities" to impose new sanctions on North Korea following its latest nuclear test.Speaking in the Japanese...
Curated Video
USA: WHITE HOUSE: NO DECISION REACHED OVER DEPLOYMENT IN BOSNIA
English/Nat
President Clinton is expected to agree to a longer-term troop deployment in Bosnia before he starts an Asian trip Friday.
Nato's secretary general may have let the cat out of the bag Thursday, saying up to ten- thousand U-S...
Curated Video
Press conference by US General Tommy Franks
1. Soldiers lined up waiting for Franks
2. Franks greets soldiers
3. Close up Franks chatting to soldier
4. Cutaway press photographers on roof
5. US soldiers
6. Cutaway press
7. Franks walks up to microphones
8. Cutaway US army...
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
US on tension between India and Pakistan
The White House said it encouraged continued discussions between India and Pakistan to avoid escalation after India said it carried out "surgical strikes" against militants across the highly militarized frontier that divides the Kashmir...
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
US envoy meets Afghan president
1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. national security advisor Stephen Hadley talking at presidential palace
2. Mid of Karzai
3. Mid of Hadley
4. Afghan officials attending the meeting
5. US officials at the meeting
6....
Curated Video
Reax to extended detention for pro-democracy leader
Yangon, Myanmar - May 2002
1. Various Suu Kyi walking through crowds after being released (NB shots are mute)
Vientiane, Laos - November 29, 2004
2. Philippine President Gloria Macapacal Arroyo walks to podium
3. Philippine presidential...
Curated Video
Rock star demands more help for African Aids sufferers
1. Exterior of summit venue
2. Armed security arrive in truck
3. Uganda's President Museveni followed by South Africa's President Mbeki arriving
4. Guard of honour
5. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe arriving
6. Other delegations and...
Curated Video
UK: US SECRETARY OF DEFENCE BRIEFS BRITISH AND FRENCH COUNTERPARTS
English/Nat
The U-S Secretary of Defence William Perry has briefed his British and French counterparts in London about his tour of the Middle East in which he sought support for the increased American military presence in the Gulf.
They...
PBS
India's Effort To Clean Up Sacred But Polluted Ganga River
The Ganga River, known as the Ganges under British rule, is one of the most revered waterways in the world -- and also among the most polluted. Stretching from the Himalayan foothills to the Bay of Bengal, it provides water to nearly...
PBS
What Survives Inside A Black Hole?
Black holes are the result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at...
Crash Course
What is Human Geography? Crash Course Geography
For the next half of this series, we will be discussing Human Geography — so we’ll still be looking at the Earth, but specifically, how human activity affects and is influenced by the Earth. Naturally, we thought the best place to start...
SciShow
The Alien Egg Experiment
Hank brings us another simple experiment that demonstrates the important biochemical process of osmosis by turning a chicken egg into a frightening alien-looking thing.
PBS
Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?
Why are we talking about dark energy again? Because another team has just announced a new analysis of updated supernova data. They claim that the data are consistent with there being NO dark energy - no accelerating expansion. They...
TED Talks
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A visual history of inequality in industrial America
For the last 12 years, LaToya Ruby Frazier has photographed friends, neighbors and family in Braddock, Pennsylvania. But though the steel town has lately been hailed as a posterchild of "rustbelt revitalization," Frazier's pictures tell...
TED Talks
TED: To fight climate change, listen to young people | Nkosilathi Nyathi
The climate crisis has been largely caused by irresponsible adults in developed countries, but it's the children of developing nations -- like Zimbabwean environmental activist Nkosilathi Nyathi -- that suffer from the most disastrous...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is Alzheimer's disease? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting over 40 million people worldwide. And though it was discovered over a century ago, scientists are still grappling for a cure. Ivan Seah Yu Jun describes how Alzheimer's...
SciShow
Hilde Mangold and the Organizer of Life | Great Minds
Experiments conducted by Hilde Mangold and Hans Spemann taught us how an animal develops from a small ball of cells into an organism with distinct, functioning parts. The work was a foundational contribution to the field of developmental...