What's the best way to develop and implement solutions to social problems? TED Fellow and human rights activist Monica Malta discusses why traditional, top-down policymaking often fails by excluding key voices and missing root causes....

Most new species are discovered by amateurs because nowadays non-professionals are actually better suited to the requirements of new species “discovery.”

We're not doing frontline exploratory science in a huge portion of the world -- the places governments deem too hostile or disputed. What might we be missing because we're not looking? In this fearless, unexpectedly funny talk,...

Steve Parks, a professor of English at the University of Virginia and director of the Democratic Futures Project, reflects on his 30-year mission to use education as a tool for strengthening democracy. He believes the classroom has a...

Explore the story of how a bet over a horse's gallop spurred Eadweard Muybridge to invent an early motion picture device.<b<br/>r/>

Students and employers are pressing business schools to shift from teaching profit maximisation to environment and sustainability. The FT's Andrew Jack looks at how training future managers is changing

University of Michigan business professor Andrew Hoffman describes how his research investigates the cultural aspects of climate change, focusing on the question, What comes to people’s minds when they hear the words “climate change”?

Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) describes her motivations to write her bestselling popular book Mindset, along with why she deliberately opted to take a more personal approach.

Julian Vasquez Heilig leads nearly 3,000 students, staff and faculty as the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education. He is also a tenured professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While at UK, the College of...

Economists tend to incentivize conformity over quality, but could pressure from outside groups change that?



INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about...

Yes, you read that right. According to the UK's former drugs advisor horses are more dangerous than drugs. So in this video we unpack how drug classification works, how the danger of drugs is measured and who decides which ones are illegal.

With some attitudes towards sex work changing, we take a look at the various policy and legal approaches taken around the world, and whether the UK should consider changing theirs.

In this video, the teacher provides an overview of the writing module in the IELTS exam. They discuss the time allotted for each task, the word limit, and the different types of topics and tasks in both the academic and general modules....

Adeola Adefemi is an award winning public school teacher with a passion for the promotion of quality education for children, especially the marginalized ones in her community.She is a Fulbright alumni, a certified Microsoft Innovative...

When you think of British Prime Ministers there are definitely a few names that stand out, for good and bad reasons, but who's the best? Well a whole bunch of experts and thousands of TLDR viewers cast their votes and in this video we'll...

Why are some artists popular in their time, but are forgotten later? We discuss this question by looking at Bouguereau and Renoir, two artists from the 1880's, and compare their styles set against the backdrop of the culture in which...

In this video, the speaker introduces the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and explains its format, purpose, and acceptance in various countries. They also discuss the different sections of the exam, including...

In part 5 of INET's interview with Ha-Joon Chang, he says that we should show students how relevant economics can be to the real world, otherwise we run the risk of alienating students with irrelevant abstract models<br/>

A Nobel Laureate describes the terrible trap the economics profession is in and how the Institute may provide a way out by helping the next generation work outside the old paradigm.

This video is a tutorial for IELTS Task 1, specifically for the map question type. The teacher explains how to approach the question, what to look for in the diagrams, and provides a sample answer with detailed explanations. Viewers can...

With the COVID outbreak ongoing, some were surprised to see students welcomed back to universities. As many expected, doing so led to large spikes in COVID cases leading to many student halls being locked down (with one very notable case...

Conjunctions are words that join words and sentences together. In this lesson, Mr. P. will about subordinating conjunctions. They are those that are attached to dependent clauses, so they cannot stand alone to give a complete thought or...

A younger professor's perspective on George Soros and the older generation of economists who initially got together to form the Institute for New Economic Thinking.<br/>

Here we are ... 2 days before the end of the decade.



It's hard to imagine a better time to reflect! For this video, we'll refer to the mistakes that were made in the conveyance of information discussed on this channel in the...