SciShow
Scientists Had Some Bad Ideas | Scishow Quiz Show
Two YouTube musicians battle it out to see who shall sing a song of victory.
SciShow
The Link Between Zebra Stripes and Sand Dunes | Natural Patterns
Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually the result of physical process that show up again and again, even in otherwise unrelated phenomena.
SciShow
Why Scientists Are Cooking Ancient Pots
Unlocking the mysteries of ancient ceramics is a bit complicated. Radiometric dating tells us the age of the clay, but when was it first shaped by a human? We can find out by blasting it with heat again!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Paul S. Kindstedt: A brie(f) history of cheese
Before empires and royalty, before pottery and writing, before metal tools and weapons – there was cheese. As early as 8000 BCE, Neolithic farmers began a legacy of cheesemaking almost as old as civilization. Today, the world produces...
Curated Video
How to Practice Microwave Safety
Microwave ovens are an essential part of modern life. It is important to know how to use them safely.
Curated Video
How to Clean Antique Porcelain & Pottery
Using these methods, you no longer need to fear ruining the beautiful glaze on that fancy vase you inherited years ago.
Curated Video
The humble pot
Pupil outcome: I can investigate pottery and experiment with different shapes and texture to create a pinch pot. Key learning points: - Pottery has been around for thousands of years and is a job within the creative industries. - Pottery...
Curated Video
Symbols of Power and Beauty: Wari Art and Ceramics
Wari art, especially their colorful and detailed pottery, reflected both their religious beliefs and political power. Influenced by coastal cultures like the Nasca, Wari ceramics featured images of the staff deity, warriors, animals, and...
Professor Dave Explains
Artifact Identification and Analysis Part 2: Ceramics and Metal
In going over some common types of artifacts, we just looked at lithics, or stone tools. Now let's look at ceramics and metal artifacts. There is a lot to analyze with ceramics, from the type of clay, temper, glazes, and of course the...
Professor Dave Explains
Relative Dating in Archeology
We just learned about the application of carbon dating in examining human material remains. But what about relative dating methods? And more importantly, how can absolute dating and relative dating be used in conjunction to determine the...
Makematic
Who Constructs History?
Historians, archaeologists, archivists and cartographers use primary sources, like diaries, tools, and maps, to unlock the secrets of the past and sort the fact from fiction.
Science ABC
Invention Of Wheel: How Was The Wheel Invented?
Wheels eased the job of carrying heavy loads across distances, but before the invention of the wheel, the man himself used to carry those heavy loads. Later, he began taming animals, like oxen, horses, donkeys, and camels, and used them...
Curated Video
Minerals
Discover the world of minerals and learn about their uses. Material processes - Classifying materials - Minerals Learning Points Minerals are naturally occurring substances with a unique chemical make-up. Minerals have many uses. The...
PBS
Werehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
African folklore dictates that unlike other werecreatures this monster is an animal that disguises itself in human form. By day it walks the earth nearly indistinguishable from humans, but at night it returns to its true hyena shape. We...
Curated Video
Antikythera Mechanism and Mysteries of Ancient Technology
The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901, is an ancient Greek device designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for. Recent research suggests it may have been...
Financial Times
Inside London's 'zero waste' restaurant
FT Food Revolution - The FT's Daniel Garrahan and food critic Tim Hayward visit Silo, a 'zero waste' restaurant in Hackney, which rejects the bin, makes ice cream from waste bread, turns seaweed into pendant lighting and 'upcycles' used...
Curated Video
Integrated Roman Communities
Historian and classicist Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge) describes how, contrary to what we might naively assume, wealthy ancient Romans lived much closer to their poorer compatriots than their modern counterparts do.
Weird History
Dishes That Are Much Older Than We Realized
Avocado toast, goat cheese, alternative meat dishes - these are all that we'd consider 21st-century food trends. But did you know the bases of these dishes have been around a long time? In some cases, thousands of years? Our ancient...
Curated Video
The Versatility of Clay: From Pottery to Medicine
From construction to medicine, clay has been an important material for humans for thousands and thousands of years. It is a fine-grained rock or soil containing metal oxides, and organic matter. From pottery and construction to writing...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Clay Coil Vessels - Building Up Walls
Clay Coil Vessels - Building Up Walls
60 Second Histories
An Ancient Greek Marketplace
An Ancient Greek farmer explains all the things to see and do on a busy trip to market.
Two Minute Music Theory
Music Culture in Classical Period Greece (Part 1) - Music In History
Greece has a long and diverse history of music, and much of the Western Tradition of music can be traced through the Greece Classical Period. 0:00 Introduction 0:32 The Greek Classical Period 3:56 Music Culture in Ancient Greece 6:38...
History Hit
Hadrians Wall: Sending letters and combating disease
How did the Romans proactively combat the spread of disease? How advanced were the Romans living on the frontier? Hadrians Wall, Part 4
Step Back History
Did the Japanese Beat Columbus to the Americas?
I just want to do a quick footnote video to go along with the big Before Columbus part three. My last video on east Asian theories didn’t quite go into one important potential beater of Columbus in Japan.