TED Talks
TED: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions | Scott Galloway
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro
When Stephen Sillett was a boy, he took to the forests of Pennsylvania with his brother and grandmother. Looking up into the dense branches and leaves, his curiosity was piqued: What was hidden up there? Wendell Oshiro tells the story of...
SciShow
The Year-Long Twin Astronauts Experiment
Astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will soon undertake a historic, record-breaking mission: to live in space for an entire year. And scientists will have some extra help studying the effects of this extended stay on the...
TED Talks
TED: To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life | Ben Saunders
This year, explorer Ben Saunders attempted his most ambitious trek yet. He set out to complete Captain Robert Falcon Scott's failed 1912 polar expedition — a four-month, 1,800-mile round trip journey from the edge of Antarctica to the...
TED Talks
TED: Why bother leaving the house? | Ben Saunders
Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.” Saunders’ next outdoor excursion? To try to...
TED Talks
TED: A mini robot -- powered by your phone | Keller Rinaudo
Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo demos Romo, the smartphone-powered mini robot who can motor along with you on a walk, slide you a cup of...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The dangerous race for the South Pole - Elizabeth Leane
By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations left: the North and South Poles. After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a...
Crash Course
Rethinking Civilization - Crash Course World History 201
In which John Green returns to teaching World History! This week, we'll be talking about the idea of civilization, some of the traditional hallmarks of so-called civilization, and why some people would choose to live outside the...
Curated Video
nhancing Race Team Performance with Microsoft Tablet PCs and Centel Software
This video highlights how a US race team, TCGR, is using Microsoft Tablet PCs with Centel software to enhance communication and data sharing between pit crews and engineering staff. The system allows for instant messaging, secure...
Curated Video
Why So Many Countries Claim Antarctica But Can’t Do Anything With It
Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it. And because of this, as it was explored in the...
Curated Video
Rocket Man Eric Scott Sets New Altitude Record with Rocket Belt
In this video, Eric Scott, the only Rocket Belt performer in the world, sets a new altitude record by landing in a high place without using valuable propellant to return to the ground. The rocket belt, developed in the 1960s, uses...
Curated Video
Data Science Model Deployments and Cloud Computing on GCP - Front-End Frameworks with Angular
Developed by Google, Angular is a front-end framework that utilizes the TypeScript Superset. It is an opinionated framework that has many architectural decisions already made for developers. This clip is from the chapter "Libraries and...
Curated Video
Data Science Model Deployments and Cloud Computing on GCP - Static Versus Dynamic
This video explains the differences between static and dynamic programming types. This clip is from the chapter "Programming Languages" of the series "Web Development Concepts for Everyone".In this section, you are going to learn what...
Curated Video
Data Science Model Deployments and Cloud Computing on GCP - Strong Versus Weak
This video explains the difference between strong and weak programming types, where a weak programming type can change the type of the variable and the strong programming type cannot change its variable type. This clip is from the...
Curated Video
Data Science Model Deployments and Cloud Computing on GCP - Introduction to Programming Types
This video introduces you to different programming types such as numbers, strings, and Booleans. This clip is from the chapter "Programming Languages" of the series "Web Development Concepts for Everyone".In this section, you are going...
Curated Video
CompTIA A+ Certification Core 2 (220-1102) - Ticketing Systems
As a tech, you will almost certainly be dealing with tickets. Customers or employees run into technical issues all the time and it's important to prioritize and address the problems and solve them in a timely manner. This is where...
Curated Video
Who Was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, emerged from modest beginnings to become a defining literary figure of the 20th century. Despite facing financial struggles and societal prejudice due to his Irish-American...
Curated Video
Father and Son Diabetes Expedition: Conquering the Frozen Wilderness
This video discusses the incredible story of a father and son team who aim to cross over 1100 kilometers of snow and ice on foot in Antarctica, a feat that even the great polar explorer Ernest Shackleton failed to accomplish. What makes...
Curated Video
Let Us Talk About Our Flag
We find Miss Palomine standing in front of the White House. She says that our American flag can be seen all over our nation’s capital. She compares the first American flag to our modern flag. She tells the story of how America became...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 - Overall Plot Summary
When King Henry the Fourth takes the English throne, his hopes for a peaceful reign are dashed by the rebellious Percy family. What the King needs is for his son, Prince Hal, to snap out of his party boy era and do his royal duty. But is...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 - Act 4 Summary
Civil war is on the horizon but some last minute bad news puts the Northern Rebels’ cause into doubt. Meanwhile, King Henry’s soldiers are assembling, including Falstaff and his ragged infantry. Prince Hal is taking charge as a serious...
Curated Video
Hardwick Hall part 6: Bedrooms and Family Quarters
The tour of Hardwick Hall continues on to the more private areas of the estate. We start with the formal withdrawing chamber, where guests were entertained with card games and music, and then move on to the many bedrooms and the family...
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1852
You might call this election the election of 1844, part 2, because it was very similar to it. Just like in 1844, a young dark horse candidate won. Also like in 1844, the incumbent president was a Whig who had become President after the...
Independent Producers
Cold War Veterans
Men serving in the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War suffered extreme stress as they prepared daily for nuclear war. But when the Cold War ended, they were not recognized as veterans because they weren’t technically in combat. In this...