Ellen Winner is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in...

Sound waves vibrate more than just our eardrums, they can also make visual art!

In this episode, the first in our exploration of South America, we take you to a very remote village high in the Ecuadorian Andes. We spend time on a small organic farm and get to know the people of this very special place. The local...

This assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same. John...

I was the first woman president of an African nation, and I do believe more countries ought to try that, says H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel laureate and former president of Liberia. Telling the story of how Liberian women helped...

Art teacher Olusegun Adeniyi, who teaches at Caleb British International School, Lagos, Nigeria, is not only renowned for bringing out the creative side of his fortunate students with two decades of nurturing new talent and creating...

👉 Learn how to find the value of an unknown variable in the expressions representing the values of angles given the relationship between the angles. When given expressions representing the values of angles and the relationship between...

Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she isn't exploring the heavens, the classically trained actor (and TED Fellow) looks...

Howcast - Learn how to understand chess symbols from Chess NYC in this Howcast video.

From cave paintings to public murals, humans have told stories with art for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we discover that visual storytelling is elementally human — and so is competing over whose story...

Howcast - Learn how to teach your parrot to do the big eagle trick from Parrot Wizard Michael Sazhin in this Howcast video.

The goal of the GCF Reading Program is to help adults at all levels become more proficient readers.



Utilizing various learning tools, learners will be able to learn and practice reading the top 1,000 most frequently used...

Mighty Sea Crane part 3/8: This video discusses the design and construction of the Oleg Strashnov, a ship with a massive crane that has a 5000 ton lifting capacity. The video highlights the challenges faced in maintaining balance when...

Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation of identity and independence. In this electric...

Edward Kinman is Professor of Geography and Assistant Dean for Assessment and Program Improvement for the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences at Longwood University, located in Farmville, VA. He serves as the Coordinator for the...

MOT 1948: NEW YORK CITY: 20TH CENTURY SPORTING CLUB OFFICE: MS Sol Strauss sitting at desk talking on telephone (No SOT), paperwork, contract on desk. MS Sol handing paperwork to unidentified female executive assistant.

We often see accidentals in music but they have different significance depending on the context. Accidentals might be flagging up a key change, or they might be decorative chromatic notes, or they might be signifying a minor key, or they...

Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...

What can you do at a German post office? How do you send a package from Germany to the USA? How much does it cost to send a package from Germany to the USA? All of these questions and more are taught in this A1/A2 German...

PHP is back and is faster and more lightweight than ever. The world of web technology is seamlessly evolving, and PHP 7's simplicity and prowess addresses the requirements of current and future web and mobile application...

Let's learn about Georges Méliès who had alwaus shown interest in the arts and was a pioneer in the early days of cinema.

Having left the EU the UK's now looking for new friends. One place that they could look is towards their English speaking allies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Together these countries could make the CANZUK group of nations a...

The latin phrase Terra firma means "solid earth". From the beginning of time, man has utilized the Terra firma beneath his feet for a myriad of reasons but the most striking option has been to create homes out of the solid earth. The...

The universe of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is an incredibly unique and interesting one, but it is also heavily based upon real life events. This video is the first part of many detailing some of those real life...