Curated Video
Understanding the Human Development Index
This video provides an introduction to the Human Development Index (HDI). The video discusses the challenges of accurately measuring economic development and why a multidimensional approach is necessary. The video explains how the HDI is...
Curated Video
Understanding Development Economics: Explaining Slow Progress in Developing Economies and Strategies for Achieving Development
The video discusses development economics. The video explores the barriers and frictions that prevent growth from feeding into development and identifies necessary policies and strategies to help these countries experience development...
Curated Video
The Economics of Happiness: Measuring Development Beyond GDP
This video explores the concept of happiness as a measure of economic development. It discusses the limitations of traditional measures of development, such as the Human Development Index, which do not consider the overall level of...
Economics Explained
The Crazy Economy of Monaco: Human Development Index
Monaco is the wealthiest nation in the world per capita. It's also the country with by far the highest average age of citizens. It has the highest cost of land of any country in the world, it pretty much breaks any kind of list you want...
Curated Video
Alternative Indicators of Economic Development
This video explores the various alternative ways in which economic development within countries can be measured beyond the commonly used Human Development Index (HDI). The video discusses the limitations of HDI and introduces alternative...
Curated Video
Indicators of Economic Growth for Business Investment
This video lecture presents various indicators of economic growth for a country, explaining how they inform businesses about the attractiveness of investing in different markets. The lecturer discusses GDP and its measurement, the...
Edutopia
Knowing Every Child Through Index Card Rosters
By regularly reviewing students’ behavior and learning as a team, teachers can ensure that every student is seen, supported, and celebrated. Our How Learning Happens video series explores teaching practices grounded in the science of...
MinuteEarth
Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease
Malaria is a global disease that we've beaten back around the world, including in some tropical places, but we’ve had the hardest time in Africa. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Cathy Davidson - Index Card Technology
Cathy N. Davidson, a distinguished scholar of the history of technology and appointed in 2011 to the National Council on the Humanities by President Obama, is a leading innovator of new ideas and methods for learning and professional...
Nature League
Predicting Future Humans - From A to B
In this episode of "From A to B", Adrian and Brit co-create a potential future human based on both realistic and absurd adaptations.
Packt
Julia for Data Science (Video 3)
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 performance...
Professor Dave Explains
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
How do we measure the health of an economy? The most common way is by looking at its gross domestic product, or GDP. But what does that mean exactly? Are there any limitations to this approach? What kind of goods are counted towards GDP?...
TED Talks
Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works,...
NASA
Hubble Tool Time Episode 3: Servicing Mission 2
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Curated Video
Hubble Tool Time Episode 5: Servicing Mission 3B
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Curated Video
Hubble Tool Time Episode 6: Servicing Mission 4
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Curated Video
Hubble Tool Time Episode 2: Servicing Mission 1
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Curated Video
Hubble Tool Time Episode 1: Astronaut Training
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Curated Video
Hubble Tool Time Episode 4: Servicing Mission 3A
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Packt
Julia for Data Science (Video 6)
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 performance...
MinuteEarth
Why Is Your Grandma So Short?
Learn more about the Goalkeepers report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation here: http://gates.ly/2fb6CNH Nutrition during the first few years of life has a huge impact on adult height, and since nutrition has been getting better...
Life Noggin
Could You Survive In The Middle Ages?
We explore just how difficult life was back in the Middle Ages! Watch more: “The Big Problem With The North Pole” ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kD5dXEAcxA Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin...
Science360
Robotic nurse assistant to help with routine tasks - Science Nation
Nurses put robot prototype through the paces, helping engineers improve design With support from NSF, roboticist Dan Popa and a team of engineers and nurses at the University of Louisville are developing a new generation of assistive...
Curated Video
Launching America: Goddard's Role in Keeping Astronauts Connected to Earth
NASA’s Human Space Flight Network stands ready to support the launch of astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, coordinating communications across multiple network elements to...