Nigel was appointed in April 2002 to head up the BBC's training and development operation, where he built one of the most successful learning and development operations in the UK. This included an award-winning leadership programme,...

APPEL Knowledge Services presents a preview of the new Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast.

L. Randall Wray, professor at UMKC, talks about Hyman Minsky, an American economist who, even in the relative stability of the 1950s, predicted financial collapse because of "speculative euphoria." Interviewed by Peter Leyden at King's...

It was the most destructive conflict in US history – but the American Civil War also saw the emergence of new technologies and innovations born from a will to win.

In part 3 of INET's interview with Fred Block, he says that Fortune 500 companies don't have any incentive to develop new products themselves -- but rely on publicly funded labs and universities surrounded by startups.<br/>

At the WSJ D.Live conference in Hong Kong, Caesar Sengupta, the vice president of Google's next billion users, speaks with WSJ Senior Editor Yun-Hee Kim about strategies and plans to reach the next billion internet users.

Damon Centola is a Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group.

He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change....

This Month in History. April: innovations. Apple Computer Inc. is formed; the first ride of the Pony Express begins; Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft; NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey; the RMS Titanic sets sail

In this video, Leslie Samuel talks about the intrinsic shoulder muscles, which are Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, subscapularis, teres major and minor, and deltoideus. These are innervated by the suprascapular, upper and lower subscapular...

The muscles of the arm are the Biceps brachii, corachobrachialis, brachialis, and triceps brachii muscles. What are the nerves that innervate them? That's what Leslie Samuel talks about in this video. Turns out - there are only two - the...

To operate and function efficiently, machines of all shapes and sizes need a source of energy. A series of innovations is helping to make energy conversion within fuel cells as efficient as possible.



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This Picasso painting is one of his most famous, and one of the most influential and important pieces of art in history. Why?

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about The First Celebrity Chef

This Month in History. May: innovations. Development of Coca-Cola; the USDA approves first birth control pill; Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccine; first set quintuplets survive infancy; discovery docks at the...

What do World War I, a 16th Century Italian Doctor, Coca-Cola, and a Chicago sausage maker have to do with Birth Control? Well, let's just say the history of birth control is very long and very odd.

The ice skates worn by this year's hockey players, figure skaters and speed skaters are vastly different from what were once used. Melissa Hines, the Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Sam Colbeck,...