The Guardian
I play Jesus three': landmark operatic production of the Easter story, performed by Manchester's homeless
Critically acclaimed charity Streetwise Opera and ensemble the Sixteen perform Bach’s iconic oratorio St Matthew Passion as an immersive fully staged opera in Campfield Market, Manchester. Director Penny Woolcock explains, “it’s about...
The Guardian
Liberi Nantes: the first football team in Italy made up of refugees
All but one of the players for Italian Terza Categoria team Liberi Nantes are refugees and migrants who risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Lampedusa. Alberto Urbinati, a diehard Lazio fan angered by the...
The Guardian
Why America's gay bars still matter: 'Living joyously is still a radical act'
The Guardian visits three gay bars in Texas, Mississippi and Indiana, where the owners and punters share how important those spaces remain for a community
The Guardian
Anime has a race problem, here's how black fans are fixing it
Josh Toussaint-Strauss loves anime but too often sees black characters portrayed using racist stereotypes. Even some of the biggest and well-loved shows, like Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop and One Punch Man, fail in their representation of...
The Guardian
Apocalypse, how? A survival guide to the end of the world
We live in uncertain times. With global tensions escalating and unpredictable leaders like Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin in office, increasing numbers of people are turning to self-sufficiency as insurance against...
The Guardian
Leonora Carrington: Britain's lost surrealist
Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst and hang out with Picasso and André Breton in 1930s Paris. She fled the Nazis, escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Spain and became a national...
The Guardian
RIP SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK's mental health crisis
One morning in June 2020, graffiti reading RIP SENI appeared emblazoned across a public artwork outside the Bethlem royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital in south London. The spray-painted letters drew attention to Olaseni Lewis, a...
The Guardian
Beirut Dreams in Colour
Mashrou’ Leila were one of the biggest bands in the Middle East, with a lead singer, Hamed, who is the most prominent openly gay rock star in the Arab world. Known globally, their gigs were regular sell-out successes until an event at...
The Guardian
Artist Doris Salcedo on Bogotá: 'The forces at work here are brutal'
‘Art cannot explain things but it can expose them – that’s why art here is so important and necessary,’ says Doris Salcedo as she takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio. The Colombian sculptor’s works are poetic memorials to the...
The Guardian
The weight of light: how gravity is illuminating sub-Saharan Africa
Off-grid communities such as those in sub-Saharan Africa can pay thousands of times as much as the rest of us for their energy. Designer Jim Reeves has developed a simple, low-cost gear-train and generator that uses a descending weight...
The Guardian
It's my body of armour: my life as a female bodybuilder
Pro-bodybuilder Rene Campbell, 38, is ‘bigorexic’ – devoted to making herself as large as possible by cooking the right kind of food and training as much as she can. Her relentless pursuit of an ever-bigger body gives her self-esteem....
Curated Video
Candy Classification
The video “Candy Classification” discusses how to describe, compare, and classify candy based on observations of its physical properties.
Curated Video
Broccoli, Ham and Cheese Quiche
Coach Socrates shows Miss Palomine how to make a delicious Broccoli, Ham, and Cheese Quiche.
PBS
How Home Loans Segregated America
For decades, the American Dream of owning a house was denied to certain segments of the population... and we are still living with the effects today.
PBS
Does Wealth Make You Meaner?
Books and movies love to show wealthy people as cruel, unfeeling, and miserly. Turns out science has an explanation for why greater amounts of wealth can turn us into Scrooges. Should you just avoid growing your wealth… or is there a...
PBS
Are Stock Options Worth It?
Equity compensation like stock options used to be reserved only for C-suite executives. But today it seems like most employers are offering them to their workers... but are these "golden handcuffs" worth the tax headache?
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 37–Maths Words & 'Susie's Stories' ( #sirlinkalottime #spelling )
Learn how to spell in a funny, amusing way with Sir Linkalot and Lady Lexicographer in Maths Words & 'Susie's Stories'. .
Music Matters
What Can You Write After an Augmented 6th Chord? - Music Composition
This music composition lesson begins with a reminder of how to form an augmented 6th chord with its three variants, the Italian French and German 6ths. The video goes on to explain which are the most common resolution chords, considering...
Music Matters
Using 7th Chords Back to Back - Music Composition
In this music composition lesson we review how to form 7th chords and remind ourselves of the traditional function of standard 7th chord progressions. The video goes on to consider the effectiveness of using 7th chords back to back...
Music Matters
Harmonizing an Ascending Scale with 5-6 Alterations - Music Composition
This music composition lesson demonstrates an idea for alternating inversions and an associated melodic pattern above an ascending scale in the bass line. Ascending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without...
Music Matters
Harmonic Sequences - Music Composition
How to write simple harmonic sequences over a bass line that is derived from the pattern of the circle of 5ths. By alternating intervals of the 4th and the 5th in the bass a descending bass line is created above which a systematic chord...
Curated Video
The Sociology of Philosophy
Philosopher Scott Soames (USC) relates aspects of the spectrum of professional views on what philosophy should and should not be.
Curated Video
Reconciliation All Around
Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) describes how chimpanzees, along with many other species, reconcile after fights.
Curated Video
Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes a modern criminal defense that relies upon neuroscientific evidence.