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King Arthur and The Kinks
Historian Jay Rubenstein (Tennessee) reveals how he became a medievalist.
Religion for Breakfast
The Book that Almost Made it into the Bible
00:00 Intro 1:42 Contents 6:22 Authorship and Date 7:57 Manuscript History 10:52 Christian Usage of Text 12:54 What happened to it?
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Attempts of Elements Classification | summary
Attempts of Elements Classification | summary
Curated Video
Learn JavaScript from Scratch JavaScript for Everyone - Array Iteration
In this video, you'll learn to loop over arrays. This clip is from the chapter "Coding with JavaScript" of the series "Learn JavaScript from Scratch: JavaScript for Everyone".In this section, you'll get started with coding in JavaScript...
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: Herzl as the Leading Thinker and Writer of the Zionist Movement Part I
Dr. Polisar introduces Herzl’s most important work, The Jewish State, and explains how the book was born.
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: Herzl as the Leading Thinker and Writer of the Zionist Movement Part II
When it was published, The Jewish State elicited strong and varied reactions. Dr. Polisar explores the book’s arguments and the reactions to its publication.
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: What Made Herzl Unique
Dr. Polisar presents the primary assets Herzl brought to his effort to found a Jewish state.
History Hit
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: Rodin's life
Learn about how Rodin became an artist and what happened in 1881. Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, Part 1
Science360
Computer scientist Scott Aaronson researches quantum computers
Scott Aaronson is a computer scientist at MIT who studies computational limits and quantum computers. He has been awarded the 2012 Alan T. Waterman Award
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: The Great Challenge of Establishing a Jewish State
To truly understand Herzl’s challenge, we have to unknow everything we know about Zionist history and the modern State of Israel.
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: Herzl as Chief Diplomat: The Great Powers, Britain, and the Balfour Declaration
In pursuing diplomacy with the great powers of his time, Herzl left no stone unturned.
Curated Video
Art Basel: A Celebration of Modern and Contemporary Art
Art Basel is a prestigious international art fair held in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Learn how it showcases a diverse range of modern and contemporary artwork by established and emerging artists.
Weird History
Who Was Peter The Great?
Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any other ruler before or since. But who was...
History Hit
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece
Born in Paris in 1840, François-Auguste-René Rodin is quite possibly the most famous sculptor in recent history. Considered by many to be the first ‘modern’ sculptor, his works such as ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Thinker’ have become iconic...
Curated Video
THE BIRTH OF MODERN DAY ISRAEL: The First Zionist Congress and the Establishment of the State-in-the-Making
When Herzl wrote, “at Basel I founded the Jewish state,” he was not speaking metaphorically.
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Astrophysics - Waves and the Earth (Earthquakes)
In this video you are going to learn how we try to make buildings survive an earthquake.
Science360
Cheetah's are specialized hunters! NSF Science Now 56
In this week’s episode, we learn what makes cheetah’s specialized hunters; new ways of remotely sensing water trends, and finally, we examine fruit bat sonar. Check it out!
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis
10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down. George Akerlof, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, doesn’t mince words: economists failed to predict the financial crisis because the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Satyajit Das: The Cultural Transformation of the World of Finance (2/6)
As a financial consultant, Satyajit Das told his clients: Let us know what you want to do and why you want to do it, and we can fit models and numbers around it. The models are not sacred. And investors had better pay attention to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Replacing Judgment With Models
In part 2 of INET's interview with Amar Bhidé, the subject is how large financial systems ignore the essential insights of human judgment when they defer to models
History Hit
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: The thinker and the gates of hell
Learn how one of the most famous pieces by Rodin was meant for a much bigger piece, the gates of hell. Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, Part 3
Amphio
To breaking point
Sir John Eliot Gardiner talks on why he prefers the use of period instrument orchestras for Beethoven over modern symphony orchestras.
Kult America
Do Tourists Destroy History?
On today's episode of Kult America we visit Athens, Greece to see what remains of the city's past. I had many romantic ideas of what Greece would offer but in truth it was hard to enjoy as the surplus of tourists was extremely...