Curated Video
Understanding HRM Approaches in Business Management
The video discusses the importance of human resource management (HRM) in achieving corporate objectives by maximizing employee performance and engagement. The speaker explores different approaches to HRM, including the soft HRM approach,...
Curated Video
Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
How opioid painkillers became an epidemic Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO It's a terrifying fact: More than 47,000 people in America died of drug overdoses in what's been widely called an epidemic. But the biggest killer...
World Science Festival
Space Heroines
Through their curiosity, tenacity, and courage, women helped send rockets into space and solve the mysteries of planets, stars, galaxies, and beyond. This film is about the unsung figures of space science: the scientists, astronauts, and...
Curated Video
Mad Ann Bailey: Heroine of the Kanawha Valley
Historic accounts describe her “wild” appearance. So why did English settler Mad Ann Bailey don men’s clothes to take up the fight against Native American tribes?
TED Talks
TED: America's forgotten working class | J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a front-row seat to many of the social ills plaguing America: a heroin epidemic, failing schools, families torn apart by divorce and sometimes...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Freshwater Biomes: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Exploring Freshwater Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: List some of the ways fresh water is used in daily life. Understand how and why fresh water is so important to the lives of humans and...
Healthcare Triage
COCAINE. It's a Serious Problem Drug, Too
The opioid epidemic is certainly terrible. Even as we're plumbing the depths of it, we should remember that there are other terrible drugs out there killing people and making lives worse. Cocaine is a big problem as well, and it kills a...
Curated Video
Can America's War on Drugs Ever Be Won?
As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so America’s relationship with drugs has changed. From Nixon to Trump, the so-called 'War on Drugs' has cost the US government billions – but will there ever be an end...
Curated Video
How fentanyl is making the opioid epidemic even worse
Fentanyl, a drug more potent that heroin, is the latest iteration of America's evolving opioid epidemic. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO /// Sources: CDC Wonder: https://wonder.cdc.gov/ CDC 2015 heroin report:...
Curated Video
Weed was the real winner of the 2020 election
Americans are turning against the war on drugs. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos On November 3, four American states voted to legalize marijuana: Arizona, New Jersey, Montana and South Dakota. Combined...
Reading Through History
Civil War Talk: Soldiers After the Civil War
This episode of Civil War Talk deals with the conditions and situations soldiers faced following the Civil War. This is often an overlooked aspect of the greatest conflict in American history. The article by Chris can be read here:...
Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano introduces the music of Verdi's I due Foscari (The Royal Opera)
Music director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano on the music of Verdi's tragic opera, I due Foscari. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/foscari I due Foscari, Verdi's sixth opera, is one of his darkest and saddest. At its heart is...
TED Talks
TED: Why we need to end the War on Drugs | Ethan Nadelmann
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Is the War on Drugs doing more harm than good? In a bold talk, drug policy reformist Ethan Nadelmann makes an...
TED Talks
Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue soft power
India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - The Depression Abroad
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Curated Video
Lozen: Fearless Apache Warrior
At a time when Apache men and women followed specific gender roles, Lozen defied convention – to become one of the finest warriors in the tribe's history.
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
PBS
Jane Eyre and the Advent of First-Person Narratives
Charlotte Bronte is given credit for crafting what is considered the first of a long series of first-person narratives. Her Jane Eyre is not the usual beautiful, self-assured heroine, but rather has inspired the others, the misfits, the...
PBS
Pbs: The Street by Ann Petry: Black Single Mother Seeks the American Dream
In this video [3:40] from the American Masters film Novel Reflections on the American Dream we meet Lutie Johnson, the African-American single mother heroine of Ann Petry's novel "The Street". The video gives an introduction to the novel...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Retro Report: The War on Drugs: The New Face of Heroin
This 14-minute video provides students with historical context that explains how the United States committed to a multi-decade war on drugs that resulted in mass incarceration and racially unequal outcomes in the criminal justice system....
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Famous Moments in American History: Molly Pitcher
A unique look at Molly Pitcher's efforts in the Revolutionary War. Watch the video to hear "Molly" tell about her own experience in the war. [2:05]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Defying Convention
Explore how Jo's dreams of being a writer-and her refusal to marry Theodore Laurence (Laurie)-defied the conventional roles of women in 19th-century America, in this video excerpt from Little Women: Masterpiece. Although readers...