Curated Video
ChatGPT for Creatives - A Ghost Story
In this video, the instructor shares his personal experience of writing a ghost story and the challenges he faced while researching. He talks about how he overcame his fear of the unknown and explored different aspects of the story to...
Curated Video
ChatGPT for Creatives - Creative Writing Coach
In this video, explore advanced AI features for data analysis and creative writing, including crafting a ghost story with a unique European Bandai style. Discover the potential of AI in storytelling and character development
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But as a writer, how do you suck your readers into your stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie
In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a challenge to a few literary guests he had gathered in his house on Lake Geneva: Who could write the most chilling ghost story? This question sparked an idea in eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley who, over the...
Curated Video
ChatGPT for Creatives - Tropes and Cliches and How to Deal with Them
In this video, we will discuss the use of tropes and cliches in writing and how to deal with them effectively. It explains how tropes and cliches can sometimes be useful but can also make writing seem predictable and boring. We will look...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: The Southeastern Region: Introduction and Geographic Areas
This clip offers a brief introduction to the States in the Southeastern Region of the United States.
NativLang
Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros
Do languages have unspoken meaningful nothings? Grammatical ghosts? Syntactically significant silences? Linguists sure seem to think so. They've been writing zeros in their grammars for years. What are these nulls? Where do they come...
PBS
Fear of Ghost...Writing!
What is ghostwriting and why does it exist? The answer is less frightening - but more complicated - than you'd think.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Curated Video
AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Full Course - AKS Networking-Services
In this video, we will cover AKS networking-services. This clip is from the chapter "Serverless Computing" of the series "AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Full Course".This section explains serverless computing and how to create a...
PBS
How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves (Feat. Princess Weekes)
Astro Boy, Dragon Ball, Akira, Sailor Moon, Demon Slayer, Death Note all these interesting, iconic anime have something very much in common they started off as: manga. Manga, by its most simplistic definition, are comics or graphic...
American Museum of Natural History
Nabokov's Butterflies - Shelf Life 360
Vladimir Nabokov is best known for his literary masterpiece Lolita, but next to writing, his great passion was the study of moths and butterflies. Curatorial Assistant Suzanne Rab Green tells the story of the author’s first road trip...
TMW Media
Mercury, The Solar System Historian: Characteristics of Mercury
What is Mercury named after? How is Mercury similar and different from the Earth? What can the terrain tell us about the history of the solar system? Mercury, The Solar System Historian, Part 2
TED-Ed
Everything You Need to Know to Read "Frankenstein"
It was a dark and stormy night in 1815 when Mary Shelley began drafting a ghost story in response to a competition suggest by Lord Byron. Find out more about Shelley, her life, and events that influenced what is called the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Fear of Ghost...writing
What is ghostwriting and why does it exist? The answer is less frightening, but more complicated, than you'd think. [8:38]
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Candace Fleming
Candace Fleming has always been a storyteller. As a preschooler, she told neighbors all about her three-legged cat named Spot, and in kindergarten, she told classmates about the ghost living in her attic. Her parents encouraged these...