TED Talks
TED: With AI, anyone can be a coder now | Thomas Dohmke
What if you could code just by talking out loud? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shows how, thanks to AI, the barrier to entry to coding is rapidly disappearing — and creating software is becoming as simple (and joyful) as building LEGO. In a...
PBS
Coping With Alzheimer's: A Mother & Daughter Portrait Of Long-Term Care
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, professional artist Mary Wyant slowly lost her ability to paint and the ability to take care of herself. Ray Suarez examines the story of Mary and her daughter Rebecca, who is now her mother's...
TED Talks
TED: The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — a home for lost stories | Tavares Strachan
Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back to his birthplace in the Bahamas or a gold, Egyptian-inspired sculpture he launched...
TED Talks
TED: How to find humor in life's absurdity | Maira Kalman
With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, dinner parties, not knowing the right answers, the joys of eating a hot dog from a street vendor and more. This talk, interwoven with her delightful...
PBS
When We First Talked
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here.
SciShow
Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is it normal to talk to yourself? | TED-Ed
Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behavior as a sign of mental instability. But decades of research show that talking to yourself is completely normal; most if not all of us...
TED Talks
TED: How to participate in your own legal defense | Lam Ho
Lawyers are advocates for their clients -- and, in court, they're usually the ones who do the talking. Should that always be the case? In an effort to shift this power dynamic, TED Fellow and legal aid activist Lam Ho shares how lawyers...
PBS
Getting a B.A. Behind Bars
What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting...
Curated Video
Abuse of mentally disturbed children in Kenya
VNR - Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped
Kiserian, Kenya - 5 April 2006,
1. Wide shot of child being removed from a house for the first time during an intervention by the Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped.
2. Mid...
Curated Video
The ground breaking hip hop band arrive in London
1. Clip Outkast - "Mrs Jackson"
2. Sot - Andre (OuKast) - on the secret behind their music - "Experiment, you know... looking for a certain sound, not really having plans on how it's going to sound... fiddling though different things...
Curated Video
President Bush met with incoming leaders of the new Democrat controlled Senate Friday
HEADLINE: Bush Meets With Democratic Senate Leaders
CAPTION: President Bush met with the incoming leaders of the new Democrat-controlled Senate Friday. Nevada's Harry Reid, the likely majority leader, was at the White House along with...
Curated Video
Millions face hunger as food crisis and drought continues
1. Wide of bare dry lands in Mandera, Northern Kenya
2. Mid of mud houses where residents in the area live, woman walking
3. Wide of residents waiting in queue for any food aid that may arrive
4. Mid of children waiting for food aid
5....
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John Lewis: Walking With The Wind
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) remembers his experiences on the streets and in jail during the civil rights movement. His book is titled, "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement."
Curated Video
Coping With Alzheimer's: A Mother & Daughter Portrait Of Long-Term Care (May 30, 2013)
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, professional artist Mary Wyant slowly lost her ability to paint and the ability to take care of herself. Ray Suarez examines the story of Mary and her daughter Rebecca, who is now her mother's...
PBS
Poet Amanda Gorman On How She Prepared For Inauguration Day
The poet who will carry on a tradition and present her new work, "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration this week is already quite accomplished at the age of 22. Jeffrey Brown talked to Amanda Gorman to learn more, as part of our...
TED Talks
The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive | Niro Sivanathan
What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How many verb tenses are there in English? - Anna Ananichuk
How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first, the answer seems obvious - there's past, present, and future. But it isn't quite that simple. Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called...
Crash Course
African Pantheons and the Orishas: Crash Course World Mythology
So, today we're talking about African Pantheons. Now, you might say, that's ridiculous. Africa isn't a single place with a single pantheon, and we'd be fools to try and cover all that in an eleven minute video. You'd be right. Instead...
TED Talks
TED: A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw
How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining tools from memory science and artificial intelligence to change how we report workplace...
TED Talks
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show...
Crash Course
Natural Language Processing: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to talk about how computers understand speech and speak themselves. As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been an growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly...
TED Talks
TED: How to foster productive and responsible debate | Ishan Bhabha
The clash of ideas is fundamental to creativity and progress, but it can also be deeply destructive and create divisions within companies, communities and families. How do you foster productive debate while protecting against harmful...
TED Talks
Jane Fonda: Why I protest for climate justice
At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Fonda speaks about getting arrested multiple times during Fire Drill Fridays,...