National Theatre
Exploring the Importance of Vowel Sounds in Shakespearean Speeches
This is discussion of the importance of vowel sounds in expressing emotions while analyzing a speech from Hamlet. The teacher guides the viewer through an exercise of speaking the vowels of the words to understand the emotional impact of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruby Ratliff and Lawrence Cremin
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received...
Boulder Creek International
C.S Lewis: His Love for Ireland's Landscapes
C.S. Lewis part 8 of 11: This video discusses the love that C.S. Lewis had for his homeland of Northern Ireland, particularly the areas of Derry and Donegal. It explores his use of the term "done equality" to describe a unique feeling...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is art or science better for understanding experience?
Our life is made up of experiences. But what experience is remains a mystery. Heidegger thought it inexplicable and neuroscientists cannot find its location. Do we just need a better theory to uncover its secrets? Or is experience...
National Theatre
Twelfth Night: Gender
Director Simon Godwin and actors Tamsin Grieg and Doon Mackichan discuss gender in Shakespeares' Twelfth Night.
National Theatre
Exploring Commedia dell'arte: Bringing Characters to Life
This video explores the art of Commedia dell'arte, an improvised form of theater. The focus is on embodying the characters through physicality and energy, with an emphasis on the distinct characteristics and energies of each type of...
National Theatre
Playwrights Series: The Art of Writing Dialogue in Plays
This video features a playwright discussing their love of dialogue and how they approach writing it for their plays. They emphasize the importance of balancing naturalism with stylization and the process of refining dialogue through...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of a Senior Research Scientist
Tatiana Vinogradova is a senior research scientist at Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Redondo Beach, CA, where she studies the Arctic from space. Discover more about Tatiana’s inspiration and her day to day work using different types...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Economists Need the Arts
Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss The study of humanities is often considered an impractical pursuit—a luxury endeavor only the rich can...
The Art Assignment
Try combinatory play with books. | Pablo Helguera | The Art Assignment
This week we meet Pablo Helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer, at the Indianapolis stop of his Spanish language bookstore Librería Donceles. His assignment challenges you to give old books new lives through combinatory play.
Cerebellum
Understanding Romeo & Juliet: The Wedding
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. The Nurse tells Juliet of the plans for the wedding....
Book Club for Kids
Finding Purpose in "The Wild Robot"
A robot is a machine programmed for a purpose—to perform a human task. But can a robot survive on its own? That’s the existential question in The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, in which a robotic heroine, Roz, breaks during a tornado and...
Oxford Comma
Hogarth's "Gin Lane and Beer Street." How to Write About Art
William Hogarth's famous engravings, "Beer Street" and "Gin Lane," are not only impressive pieces of visual art; they're also impressive pieces of visual argument. In this video we'll explore the structure and composition of Hogarth's...
Boulder Creek International
C.S. Lewis: Connection to Saint Marks Church of Ireland
C.S. Lewis part 4 of 11: The video discusses CS Lewis' connection to Saint Marks Church of Ireland in Belfast, where his grandfather was a minister and he was baptized. The church remained a part of his life, even after his parents...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Rothstein - Teachers Make a Difference
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the...
Tarver Academy
Formula for Success Quote by Herbert Bayard Swope
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About the Formula for Success Quote by Herbert Bayard Swope
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Juan Parada - Teachers Make a Difference - George Lukacs
Juan M. Parada, is a technologist, media critic, web developer, consultant, digital strategist, DJ, business owner, and Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Parada has been a part of the Interactive...
de Dicto
Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune: Time perception and the average person
What do we better understand about the way the average person perceives time? Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune, Part 4
Financial Times
Potent art: Simon Russell Beale performs from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The stage actor performs the 'Ye Elves' speech in which the aged wizard Prospero vows to break his staff and relinquish his magic. He will be performing more poems at the upcoming FT Weekend Festival.
Tarver Academy
"Overthinking the Process Kills Creativity" quote by Casey Neistat
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About "Overthinking the Process Kills Creativity" quote by Casey Neistat
National Theatre
Medea's Dress: Making Blood and Mud
Dyer and Textile Artist Rosie Maccurrach demonstrates using dye in costume design, as used for Medea's bloodied and mud-stained dress, worn by Helen McCrory in the final scenes of the 2014 production.
Tarver Academy
Michael Hyatt Quote on Accomplishing Goals
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About Michael Hyatt's Quote on Accomplishing Goals
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Samuel Abrams - Teachers Make a Difference
Samuel E. Abrams is the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was previously a high school teacher of economics and history for eighteen years. His recent...
Cerebellum
Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Romeo Hears Of Juliets Death
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Romeo hears of Juliets 'death' and purchases poison so...