Africa is the second largest continent in the world and is home to the second largest population; but it is second-to-none regarding its ethnic diversity. Throughout history Africa has been the home of many thousands of ethnological...

Once upon a time there was city, named Paris, France. During the 1920s, lots of Americans moved there to escape institutionalized racism and the associated race riots, xenophobia, censorship, materialism, and Prohibition. Perhaps most...

In this video, we are introduced to a grandmother and granddaughter with a six-generation difference in age. The pair struggle to gain a close relationship because of the generational gap. <br/>
Generation Gap part 1/3

We know that your body produces more cells through mitosis. But where did your very first cell come from? It can't have been mitosis, because mitosis needs a cell to start with. As it turns out, meiosis and subsequent fertilization are...

Technology is advancing at such a rate that it seems almost inevitable that is will affect our biology. Here are 10 ways that technology could affect our evolution!

Gregor Mendel that came up with the correct hypothesis for how inheritance of traits works. Mendel published his ideas in 1866, but it took until the 1900’s for his ideas to be recognised. Mendel studied the inheritance of different...

For all of human history, we've been aware of heredity. Children look like their parents. But why? When Gregor Mendel pioneered the field of genetics, he began to try to answer that question, and now that we know about chromosomes, all...

Socotra part 1/2: This video showcases the unique and biologically diverse island of Socotra, located between the Arabian Peninsula and the horn of Africa. Despite its isolated and harsh environment, the indigenous people have found a...

Multi-hyphenate Carmelo Anthony, who recently published his second book, "Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope," discusses his career on and off the court including his investments with Melo7 Tech Partners.

The Enlightenment may not have left physical evidence behind like the pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum of Rome, but it has left us an intellectual heritage which is unquestionable in its importance. This video looks at philisophers that...

This video explains the concept of adaptation and natural selection in evolution. It uses examples of bison and finches to demonstrate how variations that help organisms survive in their environment are passed on to future generations....

The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner is a vindication of culture and art in an oppressed population.

University of Colorado engineer Abby Watrous is on a mission in rural China, converting coal-burning homes and cook stoves into cleaner-burning models, using, among other things, the extremely abundant supply of pig poop. With funding...

The CEO of VSCO, Joel Flory, discusses what teens want from tech at WSJ Tech Live in Laguna Beach.

Brendan Greeley visits the annual American Economic Association in Atlanta to discuss with old and young economists the state of economic sciences and whether lessons were learnt from the financial crisis.