TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam | Alex Gendler
In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked reliable water sources. The Colorado River's erratic flow and frequent floods made it unreliable for agriculture, and the...
SciShow
Are We Overdue for a Megaquake?
If you live in the U.S. you may have heard that the Pacific Northwest is supposedly overdue for an earthquake of colossal, devastating proportions. If that’s true, how can we better understand the threat and be prepared for the day it...
Wonderscape
The Art of Roller Coaster Engineering: Design and Construction
Explore the fascinating world of roller coaster engineering, where creativity meets physics. Learn how constraints like budget, materials, and safety shape the design process, and discover why steel has become the material of choice for...
Espresso Media
Walls of Venice: Building and Operating a Massive Gantry Crane for Barrier Installation
Walls of Venice part 6/8: This video showcases the construction and operation of a specialized gantry crane used for laying barriers. The crane is equipped with strand jacks, hydraulic cylinders with steel cables, that allow for precise...
Kult America
Warsaw's Abandoned Past
When I wonder around Warsaw and Poland in general, I am amazed at how many abandoned buildings I find. I'm not much of an urban explorer but I'm curious about the small details left behind by the previous inhabitants. Some have told me...
Curated Video
These Men Risked Their Lives to Build 1920s New York Skyscrapers
The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker. They got them in 'roughnecks' – hardened men who worked without safety harnesses, hard hats or even bathroom breaks. From the Series: America in Color: The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Chernor Bah - 'My People' by Langston Hughes
Chernor is an acclaimed global advocate for education, a girl champion and development expert. As a teenager, he founded and led Sierra Leone’s children’s parliament. He went on to lead youth related initiatives across three continents...
Curated Video
Life-Saving Innovation: The Spider Harness System for Rapid High-Rise Evacuation
Introducing the Spider - a revolutionary harness system designed for rapid evacuation of tall buildings during emergencies. This innovative device lowers individuals to safety within minutes, reaching heights of up to fifty stories. With...
Curated Video
The real reason Egypt is moving its capital
Cairo isn’t the problem. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 2017, Egypt’s government announced it would build a new capital city 45 kilometers outside of Cairo, the current...
Curated Video
Indestructible House - Evolutionary Architecture
Subscribe to Naked Science - http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Every other Wednesday we present a new video, so join us to see the truth laid bare... The word "extreme" means different things to different people, but to these homeowners it means...
Curated Video
Quilombo 130 " Competing claims complicate land ownership for Brazil's slave descendants
Every morning, Valdemir Francisco da Conceicao takes a short walk from his straw-roofed house with a bucket to take water from a river that flows through the lush mountains of Brazil's Goias state. Vao de Almas, his remote village has no...
Tom Scott
Why The Elevator Shaft Was Invented Before The Elevator
It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator was invented. • Thanks to Prof. O'Donnell and all the Cooper Union...
ARTiculations
What Does an Interior Designer Actually Do? | ARTiculations
I talk about what I do at my job - specializing in the field of Interior Design in the Architecture industry. If you'd like to help support ARTiculations - feel free to leave something in the tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/articulations For...
The Guardian
Secunderabad, south India: search for survivors after hotel collapses
Secunderabad, south India: search for survivors after hotel collapses Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Rescuers search for survivors trapped under rubble after a two-storey hotel collapsed in south India leaving 12...
Curated Video
Wildlife crossings stop roadkill. Why aren't there more?
A better way for animals to cross the road. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Sources: Highway Wilding: http://www.highwaywilding.org/ ARC Solutions: https://arc-solutions.org/ Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study:...
Curated Video
When to Trust a Self-Driving Car
2018 Milner Award Lecture given by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska. How can we ensure system correctness in the presence of uncertainty? Computing devices support us in almost all everyday tasks, from mobile phones and online banking to...
ACDC Leadership
Classical and Keynesian Aggregate Supply- Macroeconomics
In this video I explain the three stages of the short run aggregate supply curve: Keynesian, Intermediate, and Classical.
PBS
Career Connections | Construction Manager
Don a hard hat and grab an iPad; both are essential tools for construction managers. A short video details the education, skills, and tools required for those interested in a career in this fast-growing field.
Physics Girl
I Built an Acoustic Levitator! Making Liquid Float on Air
Think of current acoustic levitator technology as a hover board for tiny things! Introduce young physicists to this emerging gadget using a video from an informative playlist touching on physics topics. Viewers watch as Physics Girl and...
SciShow
Great Minds: Filippo Brunelleschi
The first modern engineer earned the title by winning a competition to build a dome. A video focuses on the work and life of Filippo Brunelleschi, who invented an entirely new way of constructing buildings, including new designs,...
Crash Course
Mechanical Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #3
Build a concrete understanding of mechanical engineering. Viewers watch an engaging video that describes mechanical engineering as the "design, construction, operation, and maintenance of mechanical systems." It also highlights some...
Crash Course
Skyscrapers, Statics, and Dynamics: Crash Course Engineering #26
You definitely don't want skyscrapers to sway too much. An informative video discusses statics and dynamics, equilibrium, forces, and torque. It uses the Citicorp Building as an example to illustrate the danger of quartering winds and...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Build a Better Wall 1: Parts & Construction
A video lecture that introduces a technique that can be used to make buildings earthquake-resistant. The instructor demonstrates and explains how to use simple materials to build a shear wall for a building. [9:15]
PBS
Pbs: End of Track: Dale Creek Gorge
This video explores Dale Creek Gorge which was an obstacle for railroad construction. The graters had to cut through granite to build a bridge to cross the canyon. The bridge was considered an engineering marvel but caused safety...