Julia is an easy, fast, open source language that if written well performs nearly as well as low-level languages such as C and FORTRAN. Its design is a dance between specialization and abstraction, providing high machine...

This Video Explains Preparing to Seek a Promotion

This extract from the 1964 short 'South Bank' offers a tantalising glimpse inside the National Film Theatre over four decades before its reinvention as BFI Southbank. Film-goers emerge from the latest Godard offering and Jeanne Moreau...

How well do YOU know Halloween? This Halloween trivia video gives you the chance to show how much you know about this incredibly fun holiday! Test yourself, and then if you have trouble, just watch our Halloween facts video to study up...

Lace (1930) | BFI. Subscribehttp://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI.' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Subscribe An excellent example of an 'industrial', a short silent film showing lace-making processes in a huge Nottingham factory with...

Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (1897-1965) was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary and the sister of Princes Edward and Albert, later Edward VIII and George VI (of King's Speech fame). Her marriage to Viscount Lascelles,...

Dr. Forrester talks about categorizing areas by their populations. Cities have a denser population of people and are characterized by taller buildings.

Why do depictions of Jesus always seem to portray him with long hair and a full beard? The reason stretches back to the earliest centuries of Christianity. The first images of Jesus actually depict him as beardless, but by the 4th...

Emperor Constantine the Great famously converted to Christianity in the early 4th century CE. But how did this happen? What did Constantine really believe?

This video teaches how to interpret slope in real-world situations. The instructor explains what slope means, how to identify key components, and how to write a sentence interpreting the slope using the title, labels, and ratio. The...

Defining conditions and their usage in Python programming

In 1939 Marian Anderson an African-American opera singer was prevented from singing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. At the time, Washington DC was a segregated city but didn't have the "Whites Only" signs familiar in the...

To move forward in the United States, we must look back and confront the difficult history that has shaped widespread injustice. Revisiting a significant yet overlooked piece of the past, Hasan Kwame Jeffries emphasizes the need to weave...

If you’ve ever been scratching a dog and seen them do the kicky leg thing, it’s truly adorable. But it might not necessarily be a feel-good thing.

Vandal caught on camera trashing Washington State capitol buildingCredit: Washington State Capitol

Salona, the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, is situated in one of the most beautiful baysof the East Adriatic coast. Salona, as stated by Strabo, had originally been a coastal base, fortification and a port used by the...

Understanding and tracking time is key to keeping society -- and our lives -- running smoothly. Early civilizations developed calendars with just 300 days in a year. But by 1582, the time it takes for Earth to rotate around the sun was...

Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa generates mind-blowing performances through the unification of audio and visuals.'http:morew.ryoichikurokawa.comherearget='_blank' rel='nofollow'>visuals. Read