Dr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998.He is the author...

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For years, researchers have struggled to understand how emotions are formed and processed by the brain. Now, neuroscientist Kevin LaBar and his graduate students at Duke University are using a virtual reality room to study how the brain...

Tony Robbins' 5 Keys to Beating Stress 1. Feed Your Mind 2. Strengthen Your Body/Change Your Physical State 3. Find a Mission Bigger Than Yourself 4. Get a Role Model 5. Help Someone Worse Off Than You

The video features various individuals sharing their personal stories of trauma, loss, and adversity. They speak about their struggles and the moments of despair they faced. However, they also discuss how they drew strength and courage...

Everyone that’s been paying attention to the economy wants to know one thing: Is the United States going to have massive, uncontrolled inflation? In this video I answer that question and talk about how we got here.

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. His philosophies seem to transcend ego,...

Macbeth agonises over whether to kill King Duncan - then in the middle of the night, he brutally stabs the king. The next morning, chaos ensues when Duncan is found dead. Will Macbeth get away with his terrible crime?

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Refugee camps are unlikely hotbeds of untapped entrepreneurial talent. The UN estimates that there are 3,000 businesses inside the Zaatari camp in Jordan, generating $13m per month, even though refugees there are not in theory allowed to...

This video explores the relationship between the mind and the heart in decision-making and the role of emotions in our lives. It discusses how emotions serve a purpose in survival and how the brain processes and responds to emotional...

Ageing can seem like a scary prospect, but many scientific studies have found that youth isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are plenty of cases in which human beings peak well into middle and old age. So here's a list of traits and...

This video discusses the importance of motivation in various aspects of our lives, including studying, work, and dealing with situations and people. It explores the two types of motivation, positive and negative, and how they can be used...

A nationwide head count of all those who live in the United States, the US Census takes place every ten years. It shows us how society constantly changes – but it also took decades of struggle for every person in America to count.

A spat broke out at the G7 between American President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime-Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada and America have a special and weird relationship. Let's talk about it.

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...

Mikki vs the World is a creative, funny, and factual series designed to help teens get a grip on what’s happening inside their heads. New developments in the karaoke plan cause Dr. M to feel even more anxious, but not quite as anxious...

Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more control over the plot than the narrator - expositing the who, what, where, when and how directly into the reader’s mind....

Watch this video to learn about Miller’s world and its influence on the play The Crucible. Discover 1950s America and the widespread fear of communism, which grew into the Red Scare and McCarthyism. We’ll unpack the Cold War, the...

Our solar system is full of incredible objects, and some of them are manmade! Beyond the probes we've sent to observe other planets, we've put countless objects up into orbit to perform a variety of functions. What are these, where are...

Welcome to the second video in our chapter by chapter analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! In this video we'll look at the timeline of Kathy's narration, the atmosphere at Hailsham, what exactly all the fuss is over these...

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. Juliet asks the Friar for help, he gives her a sleeping...

This video discusses the controversial behaviorist John B. Watson and his infamous Little Albert experiment, which conditioned a baby to fear a lab rat. It also delves into Watson's beliefs on child-rearing and his ultimate regret about...

With 30,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine's border, are Ukrainians prepared to grab guns and take up arms? What are we to make of comments in an apparent tape leak from Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko? And what is Russian President...

Please share this video with those who could use some inspiration. Will Smith is an powerful motivator. These life lessons are taken from various interviews over the past 20 years.