Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Plant Taxonomy
In this video, the teacher discusses the task of naming, categorizing, and describing over 300,000 different kinds of living things, specifically focusing on plant and fungi taxonomists. The teacher then mentions that plants can be...
Visual Learning Systems
Impacts on Earth: Video Review
Planet Earth is our home, but unfortunately humans have caused a great deal of damage to it. How have humans impacted Earth and what are the consequences? This clear and informative program answers this question through the use of...
The Viral Fever
Matera Caves, Italy: The Renaissance of Italy's Cave Dwellings in Matera
Matera Caves, Italy full length: This video explores the city of Matera in Italy, which has a rich history of cave dwellings called "sassi." These caves were abandoned for many years but have recently experienced a resurgence, with...
Weird History
True Story Behind The Soccer Team's Andes Plane Crash
On Oct. 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 passengers, including the Old Christians Uruguayan rugby team, crashed in the Andes between Chile and Argentina. The Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 survivors believed they would be rescued within...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Gustavo Calderón De Anda - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Mexico
Gustavo is a Global Teacher Prize 2020 Top 50 Finalist. He is passionate about education, technology and innovation. At his School in the City of Guadalajara, México, he works on projects with disadvantaged communities who deal with very...
Bill Carmody
Navigating Masculinity in the Age of Automation: A Conversation with Tim Samuels
In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Tim Samuels, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, broadcaster, and journalist, about the challenges and issues faced by men in today's society. They discuss topics such as the changing roles of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Importance of Reproduction
The video discusses the fundamental principle of biology that all living things come from previously living things, and how reproduction is essential for the continuation of a species. Reproduction and Development part 2/8
Curated Video
Mastering Swift 2 Programming (Video 13)
Swift 2 is a multi-paradigm programming language that has expressive features familiar to modern functional languages, and does not forget the object-oriented features of Objective-C. Things that took a block of code in Objective-C are...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alan Kay - Inventing the Future Part 1
Alan Kay, is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with: the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of...
After Skool
How to be Completely Carefree - Teachings from Eckhart Tolle
"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle is intended to be a guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future. The book is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Donna Marie Merritt - Teachers Make a Difference
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Rothstein - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the...
Curated Video
Macroeconomic Objectives: Managing an Economy for Sustainable Development
This video is a lecture discussing the macroeconomic objectives that a country may hold. The lecturer breaks down the five main macroeconomic objectives, which include economic growth, stable inflation, low unemployment, balanced trade,...
Bizarre Beasts
The Hot Microbe That Revolutionized Biology
Thermus aquaticus is the most important bacterium you may never have heard of. It single-cell-edly revolutionized modern biology and our ideas about the very limits of life on Earth. Who said a Bizarre Beast has to be an animal?
Visual Learning Systems
The Classification of Organisms: Taxonomy
For thousands of years scientists have named and categorized the vast array of life on Earth. This series of videos highlights the major advances concerning the classification of life, more specifically focusing on current trends in...
Mazz Media
Extinct
This live-action video program is about the word extinct. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word extinct through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
The Viral Fever
Matera Caves, Italy: Restoring Rock Homes
Matera Caves, Italy part 1/3: The video explores the use of caves as homes in the city of Matera, Italy. It discusses the history of cave dwellings, their abandonment, and subsequent return by squatters, artists, and writers. The caves...
Visual Learning Systems
Grouping Living Things: Video Review
There are millions of different kinds of living things on the planet. Grouping them is not an easy task. This fascinating program explores this process and investigates some of the major groups of living things.
The Viral Fever
Kandovan Caves, Iran
Kandovan Caves, Iran full length: In this video, we explore the unique cave-dwelling village of Kandovan in Iran. This 13th-century village is home to a population of 670 people who reside in cone-shaped troglodyte homes. The village's...
NASA
Gravity Assist: She Protects Other Planets from Our Germs
As we explore Mars and other places in the solar system that might have life, scientists who work in Planetary Protection are busy making sure that we don’t contaminate them.
AllTime 10s
10 Common Nightmares And What They Mean
Ever woken up in a cold sweat after dreaming that you're teeth are falling out or that you haven't studied for a school exam (even though you left school ten years ago). Well here's what 10 of the most common nightmares mean.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joseph Ross - Teachers Make a Difference - Teresita Fay
Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (forthcoming in 2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York...
SWPictures
THE OTHER AMERICA - Trade Not Aid
Latin America's chequered history with multi-national companies can make big business a hard sell. In this film we look at some business projects in South America, centred on the poor to see what can happen. “It is not about philanthropy...
SWPictures
SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Nepal's Dispossessed
Mangale is a humble fisherman in the remote village of Pandav Nagar in southern Nepal. He’s a member of the Bote people, a small ethnic group of traditional fishermen probably no more than 8,000 strong. Since 1973 Mangale and the Bote...