Curated Video
The Rare Book Room!
The Field Museum isn't just home to specimens and artifacts: it's also home to the books and manuscripts that have shaped our understanding of the world's natural history. Today, we look at some of the 7,500 books in the Mary W. Runnells...
Curated Video
Millipedes: The First Land Animals
More than 420 million years ago ancient millipedes took their first many -- many many many -- steps onto land. Today they remain largely cryptic animals, as there are tens of thousands of species still unknown to science. Associate...
Curated Video
Project Hyena Diorama: Indiegogo Campaign!
YOU can be a part of The Field Museum's History -- Donate to the #ProjectHyenaDiorama and help the hyenas !! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/project-hyena-diorama Come hang out in our Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thebrainscoop/...
Curated Video
Fossil Fish, PT. III: The Preparation
So.... we've got all of these fish fossils. Now what? To the prep lab! Part I: In Search of Fossil Fish: http://youtu.be/6EMRujEbhQQ Part II: Fossil Fish: A History: http://youtu.be/KVj5YwnMhyo Check out "Lost World of Fossil Lake:...
Tom Scott
Why 18th-Century Firefighters Let Some Buildings Burn
We take it for granted in the UK that if a fire breaks out, you can call firefighters, and they will try to put it out and save lives. In the 18th century, that wasn't guaranteed. If your building didn't have a fire mark, they might just...
Curated Video
Into Perú
Team Brain Scoop is about to helicopter into a biologically unknown region of the Peruvian jungle with a team of conservationists to study and document the area's biodiversity for the first time in its history. Join along with the Action...
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Meet the Archivist: Pam Wintle
Pam Wintle, Senior Film Archivist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, introduces us to the lyrical films of Jorge Prelorán, an Argentine filmmaker who worked extensively in the Andean Highlands and donated his...
World Science Festival
James Cameron's DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D
The World Science Festival joins the artists and explorers behind Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge 3D at the film's world premiere event at the American Museum of Natural History. There are many things that make the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE...
Tate
Ella Kruglyanskaya – 'How Can I Change the Representations of Women?' | TateShots
New York-based painter Ella Kruglyanskaya (b. 1978, Latvia) creates artworks that immerse viewers in a bold world of saturated colours and high contrast patterns. Female relationships, friendships and dialogues form the foundation of the...
Curated Video
Wolves can be a bit Coy
The relationship between humans and wolves is prehistoric-- today, they are some of the most highly studied animals on our planet. In this video we look at the history of wolves in the United States, and how recent hybrid events between...
Tate
Marguerite Humeau – ‘Each Installation is an Ecosystem’ | TateShots
Marguerite Humeau combines her interest for ancient myths and science to create surreal large scale installations that explore ideas of past, present, life and death. The French artist invited us to her London studio before visiting the...
Curated Video
How Technicolor changed movies
What was "glorious Technicolor?" It was a groundbreaking technology — but it was more than that, too. Find an extra commentary video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJCtHs-dh0M To learn more, check out: The George Eastman Museum:...
Curated Video
Peru's Coastal Region (1949)
Tours the coastal region of Peru. Shows scenes of the ruins of the ancient city of Chanchan, museum artifacts from archaeological sites, agricultural areas, and quick glimpses of Lima, Trujillo and Chiclin. To purchase a clean DVD of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Milton Chen - Teachers Make a Difference - Richard Panagos
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Milton Chen - Personalized Learning
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Ellis Island Opens
Immigration is a hot topic in the news, but it has been a part of the American story for centuries. Learners explore Ellis Island and its connection to the American immigration story with a video tour of Ellis Island, Congressional...
The Brain Scoop
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo
When railroad workers arrived in Kenya in 1898, they were greeted by some very hungry lions. Introduce young ecologists to the man-eating lions of Tsavo with a video from an extensive playlist exploring mammals. Topics include unusual...