Debunked
What’s The Most Venomous Creature Of All Time?
While snakes might be at the top of most people’s concerns when it comes to venomous creatures it’s actually something quite different that tops the bill of Most Venomous!
Debunked
What's The Most Indestructible Animal To Ever Live On Earth?
Anti Nuke Cockroach, Space Water Bears, Bulletproof Dinos & Immortal Worms are just some of the incredible animals we look at as we determine the Toughest Most Indestructible Animal Ever!
Learn French With Alexa
Penser (to think) — Present Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb PENSER (TO THINK) in the PRESENT TENSE.
The Guardian
The Personal Toll of the AIDS Epidemic
John reflects on rhis friendships and romantic relationships in the 1980s and 90s. He discusses the HIV and AIDS epidemic and the impact that had on many of his friends. John explains that friends were dying so quickly that he was not...
Curated Video
Today's Cigarettes
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley) makes the analogy of today's attitudes towards sleep and yesterday's views of cigarettes.
Curated Video
Sleep Attitudes
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker, UC Berkeley, describes how, while medicine and biology now firmly recognize the essential importance of sleep, most of the rest of us are still unaware, describing public attitudes towards sleep as akin to...
Curated Video
In Praise of Barriers
Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that many cultural and social factors play a key role in leading people to commit suicide, highlighting the effectiveness of various social policies designed to combat it.
Curated Video
Suicide and Depression
Poet and independent scholar Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that suicidal thoughts and acts are often not limited to the clinically depressed.
Curated Video
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands as a memorial to all those US service members whose remains were never identified. But not all the bodies buried there remain unidentified.
John D Ruddy
The Story of Columba - Manny Man Does History
Learn about one of the Patron Saints of Ireland and how he may have been the person to be caught for copyright infringement!
Curated Video
The Republic with No Borders | The Life & Times of Xenophon
The Republic with No Borders | The Life & Times of Xenophon
Jack Rackam
The Pacifist who Killed 20,000 | The Life & Times of Robespierre
The Pacifist who Killed 20,000 | The Life & Times of Robespierre
Curated Video
Rome's Tyrant God... Named Bootsie | The Life & Times of Caligula
Rome's Tyrant God... Named Bootsie | The Life & Times of Caligula
Jack Rackam
Caligula Became Emperor by Accident | The Life & Times of Sejanus
Caligula Became Emperor by Accident | The Life & Times of Sejanus
Jack Rackam
The Man who turned Self-Harm into Art | The Life & Times of Chris Burden
Love weird and wacky history?
Jack Rackam
The Life & Times of Belisarius (History Abridged)
After the end of the Western Roman Empire, the story in the East is more or less a thousand years of “Well they tried their best but the climate screwed them, people kept dying of plague, every single one of their neighbors made a...
Curated Video
Why Rome had only 7 Kings
Lucius Tarquinus Superbus, Tarquin for short, is the reason Rome had only seven kings. After murdering his father-in-law, the previous king, he killed any senators he thought for some strange reason might not be loyal to him, and ruled...
Jack Rackam
How Cleopatra Nearly Ruled the World | The Life & Times of Cleopatra
Footnotes: 0:28 - No, seriously, that family tree is tumbleweed. Cleopatra had a grand total of two great-grandparents, who were also uncle and niece 1:08 Pompey is best general. Fight me, Caesar scrubs 1:10 Fun fact, Mark Antony was...
Curated Video
The Messiah 500 Years Before Christ | The Life & Times of Cyrus the Great
The Messiah 500 Years Before Christ | The Life & Times of Cyrus the Great
Curated Video
How to Topple an Empire with 600 Guys | The Life & Times of Hernan Cortes
How to Topple an Empire with 600 Guys | The Life & Times of Hernan Cortes
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 74 - Things Inside Words (Levels 3-5)
Who doesn't love the Mickey Mole/Great Escape music comby! Material covered: Accident Adding ally to words Technology Descend Stomach Millennium Disastrous (+ Susie's Stories) Alcohol (+ Susie's Stories)
One Minute History
044 The Pequot Part 1 - One Minute History
For over 10,000 years, Algonquian speaking natives occupy the lands of modern New England. Europeans describe it as “paradise” for its abundant wildlife, water and fertile soil. Splitting from the Mohegan in the early 1600s, the Pequot...