TED Talks
TED: The fascinating physics of insect pee | Saad Bhamla
Scientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: This one weird trick will get you infinite gold | Dan Finkel
A few years ago, the king decided your life would be forfeit unless you tripled the gold coins in his treasury. Fortunately, a strange little man appeared and magically performed the feat. Unfortunately, you promised him your first-born...
PBS
The top library books people tried to ban or censor last year
Battles have erupted at schools, school boards and library meetings across the country as parents, lawmakers and advocacy groups are debating books. The American Library Association documented more than 1,200 demands to censor books and...
PBS
Why Cambodian Orphanages House So Many Children Whose Parents Are Still Alive
The concept of orphanages has long been considered outdated in developed countries. In the developing world, however, these institutions still house hundreds of thousands of children. But the surprising reality is that the parents of...
PBS
Thinking about math in terms of literacy - not levels
Algebra is a core subject for U.S. high school students. But should it be? Author Andrew Hacker believes we should reconsider how math is taught: only 5 percent of the American workforce actually uses math beyond arithmetic, though...
PBS
As Evanston, Illinois Approves Reparations For Black Residents, Will The Country Follow?
The nation's first government-backed reparations initiative was green lit
this week in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb where about 16 percent of
its 75,000 residents are Black. The city council has promised $10 million
over 10...
PBS
U.S. Troops Suicide
Suicides by active duty U.S. troops last year exceeded the number of servicemen and women killed in combat in Afghanistan. Ray Suarez talks to psychiatrist and retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, who says more than half of the...
PBS
University makes major push for diversity without considering race, gender in admissions
Past Supreme Court rulings have allowed colleges to consider race in their admissions processes and about 40 percent do. But the justices will soon revisit the issue and could overturn years of precedent. John Yang visited a university...
Curated Video
Pakistan - Dismissed Bhutto addresses presser
The deposed Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday (6/11) demanded that President Farooq Ahmed Leghari step down, two days after he dismissed her and dissolved her government. Leghari dismissed Bhutto's three year old...
Curated Video
Trial of former prison commander charged with torturing and causing deaths of 12 political prisoners in 1950s and 1960s
A former commander of a communist prison in Romania who is charged with responsibility for the torture and deaths of 12 inmates has told a court that he was only following orders and that the fatalities were the result of natural...
Curated Video
INDONESIA: ELECTION CAMPAIGN: HALFWAY MARK
English/Nat
The Indonesian election campaign hit its halfway mark on Friday, with the race looking as open as ever.
Large rallies around the country by the ruling Golkar party and Amien Rais's National Mandate party showed a support...
Curated Video
USA: WASHINGTON: NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER SOLANA VISIT
English/Nat
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana is in Washington, where he's briefing Clinton administration officials on plans to expand the alliance.
U-S officials say he's likely to focus on talks underway in Paris between NATO and ...
Curated Video
Defence Sec visits Whiteman Air Force base
Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri 19 October, 2001
1. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld walks off plane at
2. Rumsfeld walks through receiving line
3. cutaway - Rumsfeld on plane
4. cutaway - reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: ...
Curated Video
Dutch PM comments on the outcome of summit
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that the number of countries that had signed up to a pledge to adopt nuclear guidelines into law and undergo external checks was beyond his expectations and he expects more nations to sign...
PBS
Texas on the front lines of NAFTA negotiations
President Donald Trump announced this week his plan to renegotiate NAFTA, a free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, citing a loss of jobs in the U.S. But many business owners and politicians in Texas, which shares a border with...
PBS
Childhood Trauma Impacts Millions Of Americans, And It's Having Devastating Consequences
Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and its consequences can be
devastating. Those experiencing high levels of trauma can see dramatically
lower life expectancies, and the CDC estimates it accounts for billions of
dollars...
Bozeman Science
LS1A - Structure and Function
How do the structures of organisms enable life's functions? Benchmarks for grades 2, 5, 8 and 12 are included.
3Blue1Brown
Integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus | Essence of calculus, chapter 8
What is integration? Why is it computed as the opposite of differentiation? What is the fundamental theorem of calculus?
3Blue1Brown
Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra chapter 11
The formula for the cross product can feel like a mystery, or some kind of crazy coincidence. But it isn't. There is a fundamental connection between the cross product and determinants.
Bozeman Science
Conservation of Atoms
In this video Paul Andersen explains how atoms are conserved in a chemical reaction. This can be seen in a chemical equation where the subscripts represent the atoms in the molecule and the coefficients represent the molecules. The mass...
3Blue1Brown
What's so special about Euler's number e? Essence of Calculus - Part 5 of 11
What is the derivative of a^x? Why is e^x its own derivative? This video shows how to think about the rule for differentiating exponential functions.
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Labs - part 1
Paul Andersen details the first 7 of 13 labs in the AP Biology Curriculum. The following topics are all covered: Artificial Selection, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Comparing DNA using BLAST, Diffusion and Osmosis, Photosynthesis,...