Instructional Video40:50
TED Talks

TED: The future we're building -- and boring | elon Musk

12th - Higher Ed
elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TeD's Head Curator, Chris Anderson.
Instructional Video2:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ed Ahern "Words for a Full-Fledged Kestrel"

Higher Ed
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
Instructional Video17:06
TED Talks

Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

12th - Higher Ed
Social media has become our new home. Can we build it better? Taking design cues from urban planners and social scientists, technologist Eli Pariser shows how the problems we're encountering on digital platforms aren't all that new --...
Instructional Video4:31
Science360

Biodiversity: A boon for brain research

12th - Higher Ed
How two unlikely microbes (that don't even have brains) led to the development of one of today's most promising brain research techniques--which is being used to study many diseases including schizophrenia and Parkinson's.
Instructional Video1:47
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ed Ahern "Natter, Chatter, Cha-Ching"

Higher Ed
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
Instructional Video3:37
Vlogbrothers

How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again

6th - 11th
In which Hank wonders at some stories of his own humiliation, and why he feels it sometimes, but not other times. The trick is finding people and places that support you in being you so that you are comfortable feeling right even after...
Instructional Video6:04
Curated Video

Review for You: Characteristics of Poetry

K - 8th
Mr. Griot explores the characteristics of poetry and figurative language by looking at examples and examining text.
Instructional Video5:55
TED-Ed

How to Recognize a Dystopia

9th - 12th
Viewers need not be fans of dystopian literature to be engaged by a short video that traces the development of the genre from Plato to the present. Gulliver's Travels, The Time Machine, The Iron Heel, Brave New World, Animal...