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Curated Video
How to Use the King in Chess
Howcast - Learn how to use the king in chess from Chess NYC in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
What Is Good Art?
What makes some art valuable enough to hang in museums? In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we’ll look at different ways we can figure out the value of art beyond the number on the price tag, and we’ll examine how culture,...
National Gallery of Art
Teaching Critical Thinking through Art, 2.4: Looking for Details with the Elaboration Game
In this lesson demonstration video at the National Gallery of Art, Grace Bogosian, a second-grade teacher at Sacred Heart School in Washington, DC, uses the Looking: 5 x 2 routine with her students to build an inventory of their...
The Guardian
Paralympic National Flame Snowdon 4
Volunteer light kindling in less than ideal conditions
National Parks Service
Yosemite Nature Notes 31: Fire Followers
Fire following flowers are those that germinate and bloom after a fire, covering the landscape in a beautiful but brief wildflower display that may not return until the next fire.
Curated Video
A Plane Runs Into Trouble as It Prepares for Take Off
What caused Continental Airlines Flight 1404 to crash land shortly after an out-of-control take off on December 20, 2008? Was it strong winds, or did the flight crew somehow misread the conditions? From the Series: Air Disasters: Runway...
Crash Course
World Cinema Part One
Hollywood is the place to go if you want to make movies—right? Not necessarily. A fascinating video about the history of 20th century Asian cinema discusses the reflections of Japanese culture in the works of directors Yasujiro Ozu,...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read “Kafka on the Shore”?
Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2005. A short video provides insight into the many threads that form the tapestry of the prize-winning novel.