Curated Video
The Gilded Age: When America Became a Superpower
Learn about the Gilded Age, a period of immense social and industrial change in US history.
The Wall Street Journal
Blockchain Comes Of Age?
How is this new technology actually affecting business - who's doing it right, and who's doing it wrong?
Curated Video
Gilded Age PoliticsCrash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the Gilded Age and its politics. What, you may ask, is the Gilded Age? The term comes from a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner titled, "The Gilded Age." You may see a pattern emerging...
TED Talks
TED: War, AI and the new global arms race | Alexandr Wang
Lethal drones with facial recognition, armed robots, autonomous fighter jets: we're at the dawn of a new age of AI-powered warfare, says technologist Alexandr Wang. He explores why data will be the secret weapon in this uncharted...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Karine van der Beek - Human Capital in the Industrial Revolution
Did the industrial revolution increase the relative demand for skilled labor, or decrease it? So far, answers to this question largely have been based on conjecture. But for the first time a unique and comprehensive set of evidence of...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - Technological Advancements
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Limonero Films
Fujifilm: From Photography to Diverse Innovation
This video tells the story of Shigetaka Komori, the CEO of Fujifilm, who transformed the company from a struggling photo film manufacturer to a diversified scientific enterprise by leveraging their expertise in photo film technology for...
Economics Explained
The Shifting Economics of California
This is California, the Golden State and one of the largest economies in the world in its own right. If California was counted as a sovereign nation it would be the fifth-largest in the world by GDP, with a 3.2 trillion dollar gross...
TED Talks
TED: Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari
How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media...
One Minute Economics
The Economics Behind the Self-Help and "Motivation" Industry (Books, Apps, Gurus, ...) in One Minute
Self-help or "motivation" if you will has been around, in one way or another, not for decades or centuries but actually for thousands of years. The modern-day self-help world however is a huge industry, with for example the top 10...
Curated Video
How flight attendants changed the airline industry
The “stewardess rebellion” fought the industry and won. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO When flight attendants, known as stewardesses at the time, first took flight in the 1930s,...
Gresham College
In The Shadow of the Industrial Revolution - Professor Carolyn Roberts
The legacy of the industrial revolution can be felt everywhere in the modern world, but what of its shadow?: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-carolyn-roberts Professor Carolyn Roberts discusses the ways that the...
Extra Credits
Frankenstein: The New Romantics - Extra Sci Fi - #2
Industrialization and the Age of Reason benefitted society in many ways, but also created an atmosphere of dehumanizing mass production. The Romantic literary movement rose up to assert the value of emotion in a modern world, and praised...
Financial Times
A new age of analogue | FT Business
The analogue 'look' has been experiencing a comeback in a range of media. But as the growth in vinyl sales prove, the retro trend is about more than just style. The FT's Seb Morton-Clark reports on analogue's revival and the new hope it...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alan November - Who Owns the Learning Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age
Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in...
Curated Video
Salmon fishing in the U.S. - new threats to age-old Native life
CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon - Rebeccah Winnier’s father had a well-worn saying: “Daughter, when the fish are here, you’ve got to fish them.” So the indigenous, 40-year-old fisherwoman heeds his advice when salmon make their annual return to...
Curated Video
Growth, Cities, and Immigration Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the...
Curated Video
The Congress of Vienna: Crash Course European History
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the Enlightenment had liberated the people, and led to...
TED Talks
TED: Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it? | Natsai Audrey Chieza
Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission -- to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she noticed that the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor makes a striking red-purple...
TED Talks
TED: A political party for women's equality | Sandi Toksvig
Women's equality won't just happen -- not unless more women are put in positions of power, says Sandi Toksvig. In a disarmingly hilarious talk, Toksvig tells the story of how she helped start a new political party in Britain, the Women's...
ARTiculations
When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? | ARTiculations
Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural practice and theory throughout the last 200 years is not as straight forward as it...
The Guardian
Gut instincts: Are wellness diets just a matter of taste?
Modern science has established how unique we all are and with this discovery a new industry has sprung up offering bespoke advice tailored to the individual. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Guardian...
Curated Video
The Economics of Care
Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written...
Curated Video
Why Data Is Like Fire
Some people say data is like oil, but Chen Long of the Luohan Academy says it's more like fire: it can be copied and spread ad infinitum. Unlike the industrial revolution, the digital age has the potential for previously unimaginable...