Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Preludes 2 and 3
We continue our journey through T.S. Eliot’s vivid streetscape in Preludes 2 and 3 of his quadriptych poem ‘Preludes’. Experience the morning bustle of bleary-eyed city-dwellers as light struggles to break through the darkness. We’ll...
Curated Video
Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated...
Crash Course
Flirting With Disaster - The Importance of Safety: Crash Course Engineering #28
As engineer, sometimes lives will be in your hands, so this week we’re exploring safety and its impact on engineering. We’ll discuss the difference between occupational safety and public safety and how to analyze and review a process for...
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Modern Life: Crash Course European History
So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers...
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World War II Civilians and Soldiers: Crash Course European History
Our look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at home. For many of the combatants, the homefront and the warfront were one and the same. The war disrupted...
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The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the...
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What Are Glaciers? Crash Course Geography
Today we’re going to talk about glaciers. These behemoth globs of compressed ice and snow moving across the land created fertile soils and physical features while also serving as frozen time capsules. They recorded both Earth’s climatic...
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18th Century Warfare: Crash Course European History
European powers had a lot of wars in the 18th century, and they weren't confined to Europe. Conflict raged across the globe, in what might be called a World War...but we don't call it that, because we already have a couple of those...
Bozeman Science
Natural Ecosystem Change
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the Earth's climate will natural change due to interactions between the Sun and Earth, volcanism, and plate tectonics. Species may go extinct leading to adaptive radiation or may move to a...
TMW Media
The Harvey Girls: Pioneers of American Women in the Workforce
Long before the feminist movement for equal workplace rights, over 100,000 women known as the Harvey Girls traveled west to work as waitresses along the transcontinental railroads. These women played a significant role in opening up the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history | Kayla Wolf
For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations. These maps were meant to...
Curated Video
Identifying the Purpose of Your Essay
In this video, the teacher explains how to identify the purpose of an essay by analyzing the action verbs and subject in a prompt. The teacher provides step-by-step guidance on how to create a purpose statement for an essay, emphasizing...
History Bombs
History of Football (in One Take) | History Bombs
The History of Football in One Take! Visit our Website: https://www.historybombs.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/historybombs/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/historybombs The History Bombs team visited...
TED Talks
TED: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war | Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
In 2011, the US Armed Forces still had a ban on women in combat -- but in that year, a Special Operations team of women was sent to Afghanistan to serve on the front lines, to build rapport with locals and try to help bring an end to the...
Curated Video
The Nutritional Benefits of Millet
This video discusses the health benefits of millet. Millet's high concentrations of nutrients, such as calcium and fiber, make it a healthy whole grain choice, especially for people at risk of diabetes, osteoporosis, and other ailments....
Crash Course
Russian Revolution and Civil War: Crash Course European History
World War I was very hard on the Russian Empire. So hard, in fact, that it led to the end of the Russian Empire. As the global conflict ground on, Tsar Nicholas II faced increasing unrest at home. Today we'll learn about the Revolutions...
NASA
Mission Possible: Women of the Hubble Space Telescope
When they were growing up, six women couldn’t have imagined that their lives would take them on a journey to NASA to work with the Hubble Space Telescope. From astronaut to social media lead, from scientists to engineers, these featured...
Curated Video
Shirley Chisholm: Equal Rights for Women
In 1969 Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Woman elected to Congress spoke to the US House of Representatives to argue in support of a controversial women’s rights bill; the Equal Rights Amendment.
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WWI's Civilians, the Homefront, and an Uneasy Peace: Crash Course European History
World War I was a total war for millions of people in Europe. Many men were enlisted in the fighting, but the war work had implications for the daily lives of a huge number of Europeans. Women entered the workforce in huge numbers, and...
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Protests East and West: Crash Course European History
The post-World War II decades in Europe are sometimes called the Thirty Glorious Years. As those years wore on, tensions between East and West grew, and economic growth slowed or was unevenly distributed across Europe, protests and...
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The 1960s in America Crash Course US History
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...
SciShow
The Complicated Lives of Mountains | Compilation
It’s easy to discount the history and evolution of mountains on our jagged world, but they really hold an immense amount of information about history within them. From mountain ranges in space, to why Earth isn’t a waterworld, here are...
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English Civil War: Crash Course European History
The English Civil War. We'll talk about England after Elizabeth, in which things didn't go that smoothly. We'll talk about James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and James II, all of whom ruled England, (and tried to rule all...
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Reformation and Consequences: Crash Course European History
The Protestant Reformation didn't exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn't end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were organized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries....