Curated Video
Converting Between Fahrenheit and Celsius (Part 2)
Convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Curated Video
Converting Between Fahrenheit and Celsius (Part 1)
Convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Independent Producers
Introduction to the Great Depression
During the Great Depression, high unemployment affected millions of Americans. In this audio story, people who lived through the depression as young people share their experiences of being out of work and hungry, and depending on...
Red Rock Films
Who was James Brown?
How one musician's soothing words calmed a city and stopped violence from erupting around the country.
Next Animation Studio
Lasers learn to accurately locate space debris
China-based scientists have developed a way to use laser telescopes and neural network analysis to locate space debris.
WYPR
Harriet Tubman's Birthplace
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland. She escaped and came back to lead hundreds of enslaved people to New York and Canada along the route of the Underground Railroad. She was also a spy for the United States Army during the...
Financial Times
Empire State Building — a beacon for energy efficiency
The economic and environmental payoffs from energy efficiency can be very large, but they can only be maximised by a comprehensive strategy for designing and operating systems. Ed Crooks, the FT's US industry and energy editor, visited...
Next Animation Studio
Pentagon orders augmented reality technology
The US Defense Department has ordered special augmented reality contact lenses with a view to using them on the battlefield, according to reports. DARPA placed an order with Innovega for its lenses, which work with special glasses to...
Next Animation Studio
Construction starts on America’s giant solar farm
The project will eventually field a total of 2.85 million solar panels, generating 1.65 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power 250,000 homes.
Weird History
Hardcore Facts About Alexander Hamilton
Before 2015, it was common to hear that Alexander Hamilton was, by far, the most undervalued of all the American Founding Fathers. But with the explosive popularity of the Broadway musical Hamilton, that statement is no longer accurate....
Next Animation Studio
Vape additive creates toxic ketene gas: study
Medical researchers from Ireland have linked vitamin E acetate to vaping illness.
Red Rock Films
Who was Jesse Owens?
How a fast kid from a tough neighborhood single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of white supremacy.
Financial Times
Chinese exports - looking behind the numbers
The FT's Asia news editor Joe Leahy looks at whether the fall in Chinese exports is down to the trade war with the US or a broader economic slowdown.
Next Animation Studio
Sahara desert climate alters every 20,000 years
A new study by MIT suggests that the Sahara desert may have once flourished with nature.
Next Animation Studio
Climate change to push North Atlantic jet stream northward
If this weather-controlling air current moves northward, the U.S. and Europe are in for centuries of nasty weather.
Financial Times
Charts that Count: why the US stock market has shrunk by half
The US stock market is the largest in the world, but the number of companies that choose to be publicly listed has been shrinking for about two decades. The FT's Brooke Fox explains what’s causing the trend.
Next Animation Studio
Pentagon says UFO video is real, as UFO hearing looms
Washington is starting to open up about footage of UFOs taken by U.S. military personnel over the last few years.
Next Animation Studio
Time capsule from 1968 to be opened this year in September
A time capsule from the year 1968 will be opened in September this year, 50 years after it was placed inside the Helium Time monument in Texas.
TLDR News
Tax Havens Explained
The world of tax havens is becoming an increasingly controversial area. So in this video, we run through what tax havens are, how they work and discuss why a country would even want to be a tax haven.
Red Rock Films
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
How one man fought for equality and became instrumental in the creation of the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
Curated Video
Federal Art Project
Thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ambitious New Deal plan, American artists were able to keep working during the Great Depression. The work they produced remains a key part of the American landscape.
Next Animation Studio
U.S. probing Chinese tech giant Huawei
The U.S. government is investigating Chinese tech giant Huawei for alleged bank fraud and Iranian sanctions violations, Reuters reports.
Independent Producers
The Human Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented all immigration of Chinese laborers. Chinese immigrants were detained at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay at the turn of the 20th century because of the Exclusion Act. This audio story...
Curated Video
Yellowstone: The First National Park
The first dedicated National Park anywhere in the world, Yellowstone attracts 318 million visitors every year. It was saved for posterity by the work of two pioneering artists.