MinutePhysics
Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
In the beginning, there was ... well, we don't know, exactly. Was there even a beginning to begin with? Amateur space scientists explore the nature of the origins of the universe in a brief video. Other topics include the misleading Big...
TED-Ed
Why Do People Join Cults?
It's easy to dismiss cult members as being brainwashed by a charismatic leader, but the process of being recruited into a cult is much more complicated than that. Learn more about the ways cults use an extreme ideology and sophisticated...
Macat
An Introduction to Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations
In 1996, Samuel Huntington predicted that in a post-Cold War world, the primary source of conflict would be due to cultural and religious differences, rather than ideological ones. Introduce The Clash of Civilizations with a short,...
Macat
An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality
Where does our sense of morality come from? Friedrich Nietsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is the focus of a short explanatory video. Clarifying the difference between the concepts of good and bad based on...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Early Belief Systems
This unit explores how humans seem to naturally be drawn to supernatural beliefs and how those religious beliefs aid in forming and sometimes defining many cultures.