Curated Video
Getting Started with HashiCorp Nomad - Job Placement
In this lesson, we will discuss job placement, deploying applications, understanding their run locations, and configuring Nomad scheduling to use a spreading algorithm for the entire cluster. This clip is from the chapter "Expanding on...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How to Rewrite the Rules of Globalization
How did globalization create such discontent in developed and developing countries alike? Nobel laureate and INET grantee Joseph Stiglitz explains in this 150th episode of our “New Economic Thinking“ video series.
Stiglitz says that a...
National Geographic
Living With Mongolian Nomads | Best Job Ever
What's it like to live among Mongolian nomads when you've spent most of your life in New York City? As host of the National Geographic Channel show Bridge the Gap: Mongolia, Chris Bashinelli is on a quest to find out. During his...
National Geographic
Living With Mongolian Nomads | Best Job Ever
What's it like to live among Mongolian nomads when you've spent most of your life in New York City? As host of the National Geographic Channel show Bridge the Gap: Mongolia, Chris Bashinelli is on a quest to find out. During his...
Curated Video
Urban nomads: Mongolian herders face cultural, political and climate change on road to new future
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - This PLACE film follows two nomadic herding families. Each one has a foot in the traditional nomadic herding life and another in the capital as herders have been driven to the city by cultural, political and...
Great Big Story
The Last Nomadic Reindeer Herders in the World
Accessible only by horseback, a remote village in Mongolia has stood as the epicenter of reindeer herding for thousands of years. The nomadic Dukha people have been passing down their herding heritage for generations. Today, they remain...
Curated Video
Climate Migration: Mongolia Losing Nomadic Herding Lifestyle
In Ulaanbatar, Mongolia, more than 600,000 nomadic herders have moved to the city in search of work after dzud, or extreme weather patterns, have killed their cattle. In this segment of "Earth Focus" we see how climate change is...
Curated Video
What Makes an Islamic City?
In what came to be known as Morocco, early nomadic tribes and settlers established inventive ways to survive in harsh desert terrain. These customs still inspire the layout and workings of contemporary Islamic cities like Fes. From: EAST...
Wonderscape
First Friends: How Dogs Paved the Path for Domestication
Explore the pivotal role of dogs as the first domesticated animals and their impact on the evolution of human society. This video highlights how the early domestication of dogs enabled humans to transition from nomadic lifestyles to...
National Geographic
Stunning Stone Monuments of Petra | National Geographic
The “Rose City” is a honeycomb of hand-hewn caves, temples, and tombs carved from blushing pink sandstone in the high desert of Jordan some 2,000 years ago. Hidden by time and shifting sand, Petra tells of a lost civilization. Little is...
Curated Video
Comanche War Raids | Short Native American Documentary
The Comanche tribe were nomadic people of the Great Plains. They hunted buffalo and lived in the territory known as Comancheria, which occupied todays west Texas, a part of New Mexico and Oklahoma. In the 17th century they acquired...
The Art Assignment
Art World Pretension, Etc. | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we answer your questions from our art hotline* and talk about the distinction between art and craft (if any), art world pretension, the proliferation of images, imposter syndrome, and more. Keep the calls coming - leave us a...
The British Museum
Scythians: the alternative lifestyle of antiquity
Curator St John Simpson explains how the nomadic Scythians may not have lived in cities, but they still had the skill and desire to live the good life. The BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia 14 September 2017 – 14...
Crash Course
Greeks and Persians
Considering the evolution of democracy and civilization to this day, is there any reason to believe the Persians should have defeated the Greeks in the Persian War? Why could the legacy of Ancient Greece be considered "profoundly...