Curated Video
Wheat: From Staple Crop to Sustainable Solutions
This video explores the significance of wheat as one of the world's most important crops. It highlights its historical impact, current uses, and potential for future sustainability. From being a staple food source to its role in biofuel...
Let's Tute
Understanding Bills of Exchange: Benefits and Types
In this video, the speaker discusses the concept of bills of exchange and how they can be beneficial for sellers in trading transactions. They explain the different terms and types of bills, as well as the process of acceptance and...
Curated Video
The Economic Impact of Alexander the Great's Asian Campaign
This video explores the economic impact of Alexander the Great's Asian campaign and the subsequent reigns of various Macedonian rulers, highlighting periods of growth and decline in the Kingdom's economy. From the influx of Persian...
Healthcare Triage
Is Meat Bad For Us or Not?
We've been talking a lot about meat consumption and its effect on our health. New studies indicate that meat may not be as bad for us as we've been told. But this is controversial. So, how do we talk about new findings that contradict...
Curated Video
IELTS Writing Tips: Use Commas for Emphasis
Today you’ll learn how to add adverbs with commas for emphasis in IELTS Writing.
TED Talks
Chera Kowalski: The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
Public libraries have always been about more than just books -- and their mission of community support has taken on new urgency during the current opioid epidemic. After witnessing overdoses at her library in Philadelphia, Chera Kowalski...
Economics Explained
The Failing Economy of Pakistan
Pakistan's economy has recently come under pressure due to high levels of debt, currency devaluation, floods, and high prices for imported food and energy. So how bad are things likely to get and what are the possible solutions? 0:00 -...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Charles Goodhart: The State of the Global Economy - A Central Banker's Perspective
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jan Kregel: The Continuing Risk of Derivatives
Everybody now knows the narrative of the Great Financial Recession of 2008, in particular, the impact that toxic derivatives had in terms of exacerbating the crisis. And the usual defense of those who misdiagnosed the crisis is that the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Yuning Gao: The Future of China and the RMB - A Historical Perspective
Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features Dr....
TED Talks
Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
As Asian economies and governments continue to gain power, the West needs to find ways to adapt to the new global order, says author and diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In an insightful look at international politics, Mahbubani shares a...
Economics Explained
Japan - The Fading Economy
Japan became the first of the modern Asian countries to experience massive sustained economic growth. Japan had a lot going for it after the end of the war, it was able to rebuild with the help of the allies and go through its own modern...
Curated Video
Economy of Malaysia
#Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country that comprises of 3 federal territories and 13 states. Its capital is Kuala Lumpur and it is one of the top tourist visiting countries of Asia. It was home to the tallest building which was the...
Economics Explained
Australians Are The Richest People In The World?: Introduction and Industry
Discover how Australians have a net worth higher than that of those in the United States. How did this happen? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class by Clint Smith
An animated interpretation of Clint Smith's poem "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
TED Talks
David Rothkopf: How fear drives American politics
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Inequality takes many forms, such as wealth inequality, or inequality amongst northern and southern hemisphere nations (the developed vs developing economies). One can make the case that gender inequality has been with us the longest,...
Science Buddies
Explore Enzyme Activitiy with Toothpicks
Do you know what enzymes are? Enzymes are like little machines that help carry out and speed up chemical reactions. In our body, for example, enzymes help break down the food we eat. This video shows how you can use a toothpick model to...
SciShow
Why Is the Ocean Blue?
You may have satisfied your inner five-year-old by learning why the sky is blue, but where does the ocean's color come from?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Andrew Sheng - Sustainability Requires Caging Godzillas
Financial business is creating credit without limit until a crisis occurs. That's the fundamental flaw which caused the current crisis, says Andrew Sheng in this INET interview. He also worries that the destruction of the tropical forest...
NPR
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Many California immigrants become their own bosses. For example, one immigrant from Thailand started a Thai food business that will likely be expanding very soon. Experts note that there are some good reasons why immigrants are likely to...
Curated Video
Historical Ambiguities
Karl Gerth, Professor of History and Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies at UC San Diego, muses on the question, When did “Modern China” begin?’
Big Think
Is war with China inevitable? | David Kang
Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink David Kang: One of the most interesting patterns in East Asian...