Curated Video
World Cultures
The video “World Cultures” describes elements that make a culture: language, home, customs/celebrations, clothing, and food.
TED Talks
Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.
Curated Video
Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures: Crash Course Sociology
What is culture? How do we define it and how does it change? We’ll explore different categories of culture, like low culture, high culture, and sub-cultures. We'll also revisit our founding theories to consider both a structural...
TED Talks
Daniel Bögre Udell: How to save a language from extinction
As many as 3,000 languages could disappear within the next 80 years, all but silencing entire cultures. In this quick talk, language activist Daniel Bögre Udell shows how people around the world are finding new ways to revive ancestral...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bruno della Chiesa - Learning for Better Cultural Understanding
A former diplomat and science fiction editor, among other more exotic jobs, Bruno della Chiesa is a linguist trained at the Universities of Bonn and Paris Sorbonne, where he earned a D.E.a. in 1989. After France (60s-70s) and Germany...
The Guardian
From Burna Boy to Beyoncé: how black culture is embracing its African roots
In recent years, Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have become leading voices in black culture – in music, film, fashion, social media, comedy and even our memes. When Grace Shutti was growing up, black culture usually...
Curated Video
Socotra: Preserving the Endemic Species and Culture
Socotra part 2/2: This video explores the unique culture and biodiversity of Socotra, a remote island off the coast of Yemen. The island's isolation has led to the preservation of an ancient language and culture, as well as a wealth of...
The Wall Street Journal
Beyond The Canvas: Ideas, Culture and Art
Adam Pendleton unpacks the concept of "Black Dada" that is central to his work and discusses how his creations inform cultural conversations about race in America.
Curated Video
Greek Influence in Modern Culture
We owe a lot to the Ancient Greek civilization. Everything from architecture to medicine to music is based on Greek culture. This audio story describes the influence of ancient Greek culture, specifically in music, and how it has shaped...
Clarendon Learning
Cultures of the World | A fun overview of the world cultures for kids
In our Cultures of the world video we will learn about what culture means and how cultures can be very different around the world. We will learn how to appreciate the differences and how they influence our own identities. We will explore...
TED Talks
TED: 4 reasons to learn a new language | John McWhorter
English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits...
TED Talks
David Peterson: Why language is humanity's greatest invention
Civilization rests upon the existence of language, says language creator David Peterson. In a talk that's equal parts passionate and hilarious, he shows how studying, preserving and inventing new languages helps us understand our...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What do all languages have in common? | Cameron Morin
Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we're able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible?...
Curated Video
How Does Language Move? Crash Course Geography
While we can’t explore every cultural trait in the world, language is an important system of spoken, signed, or written symbols humans use to express themselves. It’s a major marker of identity that often unites members of the same...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The secret messages of Viking runestones | Jesse Byock
With their navigational skills and advanced longships, the Vikings sustained their seafaring for over 300 years. But for all their might, they left few monuments. Instead, fragments of stone, bark and bone found in the sites of ancient...
National Film Board of Canada
To Wake Up the Nakota Language
Across North America, Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing. “When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says Armand McArthur, one of the last fluent Nakota speakers in Pheasant Rump First...
Englishing
English Language Vocabulary Lesson on the origin of English Words (English Etymology)
In this video, Mr. P./Marc will give a brief account of the origins of the English language. He will give some example words that contributed to the formation of English, starting from Celts until the arrival of the Normans. He will also...
Cerebellum
Prehistoric Man Human Evolution Upper Paleolithic - Life Styles Of Neanderthals
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. Amazing discoveries...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The race to decode a mysterious language | Susan Lupack
In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, while others came up with their own theories. Was...
TED Talks
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool:...
Curated Video
Message to the world | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 34
Message to the world | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 34 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...
Curated Video
The Language of Color
This video explores how the perception of color varies among individuals and cultures. It highlights the influence of language and cultural associations on our interpretation of colors. By examining different languages and their unique...
Cerebellum
Prehistoric Man Human Evolution Upper Paleolithic - Migration Of Modern Humans
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. Amazing discoveries...
Great Big Story
How the Language From the Sims Was Created
New ReviewStep into the captivating world of Simlish, the fictional language that breathed life into one of the most iconic life simulation games—The Sims. From its humble beginnings in the year 2000 to becoming a global phenomenon, Simlish has...