This video highlights the water scarcity crisis in Bangladesh, particularly affecting the women who bear the burden of fetching water for their households. It sheds light on the challenges faced by families in accessing clean drinking...

While the Senate and the House haven't been very effective in passing repeal of Obamacare, the ACA's provisions are still at risk. There's a lot that Donald Trump's administration can do (or not do) to undermine Obamacare's provisions...

Students often have trouble learning English idioms because of their idiomatic nature, but in this video English lesson we take a look at the British idiom ""money to burn"". Using appropriate imagery to illustrate the many examples...

Reverberations from the financial crisis are still being felt around the world. We travel to the Philippines to see if measures introduced after the Asian financial crash in the 90’s are helping during the current global recession. Asia,...

How Cars Can Keep You Poor

Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology & Medicine at Temple University, and President and Founder of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in Philadelphia. She is also the Chief Strategy Officer for Emergency Aid at...

In this lesson I teach you the generative prepositions in German. I cover the ones most textbooks have as well as 12 more that you might not know.

This video looks at place names and their Saxon origins, like the word 'bury' meaning fortified place which lends its name to Banbury, Shaftsbury, Salisbury.  It also covers some county name origins like Essex coming from the East Saxons.

Swift 2 is a multi-paradigm programming language that has expressive features familiar to modern functional languages, and does not forget the object-oriented features of Objective-C. Things that took a block of code in...

Listening Practice: Is Salary or Personal Fulfillment More Important in Choosing a Career?

When American Parcel Post services launched on January 1, 1913, citizens suddenly found themselves with a revelatory new way of getting objects from point A to point B. And back in those days, "objects" often meant parcels in the form of...

A while ago we made a video running through 3 reasons in favour of Scottish Independence, so now we're telling the other side of the story - the reasons to stay. So in this video we look at the reasons in favour of the union and why...

Why is everybody suddenly predicting that China is on the brink of collapse? What are the chances these predictions will actually come true and why is this most likely totally overblown?



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MOT 1946: Newspaper headline 'Homes Emergency...New Deal 'Plot' ' REPRISING CONVERSATION: Editor Edwin Gavin sitting on desk in office saying OPA Formula wrong, no housing emergency, Chester Bowles saying urging reasonable pricing,...

Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy for younger students

This Week in Parliament is the series where we discuss what's been going on in the Houses of Parliament. This week Kier Starmer grills Johnson on major Conservative controversies and a report on the police's enforcement of COVID rules....

Rory Stewart will be speaking alongside David Aaronovitch at the IQ2 event. Rory Stewart - IQ2 highlights

MOT 1948: MARRIAGE MONEY ARGUMENT: DRAMATIZATION: Husband SOT asking wife what bill is, they can't afford freezer, wife saying he can afford to buy drinks for 'cronies', he saying in insurance, good business, she saying freezer good...

As Nasa plans to return to the Moon with Project Artemis, 'The Martian' author Andy Weir explains how economics will shape the building of a long-term lunar base

It’s found in India and is one of the most deadly diseases in the world – Kala Azar. It’s official name is Visceral Leishmaniasis, also known as Black Fever, is almost always fatal. But now a new drug has been licensed, tested and...

Skål! Today we are gonna talk about some myths and misconceptions about the vikings and their weapons.

Rheingold was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from 1964 to 1968. His senior thesis was entitled "What Life Can Compare with This? Sitting Alone at the Window, I Watch the...

In part 6 of INET's interview with Richard Koo, he says that China may have gone overboard in the wake of the global collapse by loaning too much money to provincial governments and creating real estate bubbles

We had a whole other video planned for today but we have to talk about the Cassidy-Graham bill, which is getting closer to passing despite our predictions last week.