Showing 171 videos
English

How to uncover your best ideas

Episode 2: Uncover your best ideas by exploring your unique experiences, interests, and perspective. -- This is episode 2 of the animated series, “Public Speaking 101.” Ideas change everythin

Conversation Academic
English

Why don't we send our trash to space? - Jim Bentley and Imogen Ellen Napper

Dig into why there is so much trash orbiting Earth, and find out what could happen if the debris continues to accumulate. -- There are over 131 million pieces of debris currently whipping

Science Nature
English

How do sinkholes swallow entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts

Explore the science of sinkholes, how they commonly form, and what human activities can also trigger them. -- It was a rainy December morning in San Francisco when the Earth opened up. The

Science Nature
English

How do fireflies create light? - Emily A. Geest

Dig into the science of how and why fireflies glow, and how their bioluminescent signals differ between males and females. -- The first firefly is thought to have lived over 100 million years

Science Nature
English

Can you figure out the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright

Explore how big-headed ants have changed an entire ecosystem in Kenya, from its insects and plants to its biggest predators. -- In the early 2000s, one of the world’s most widespread invasive

Science Nature
English

You might be surprised by what you'd find in your pores - M. Alejandra Perotti

Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome. -- Two species of Demodex mites specifically inhabit human follicles

Science Health
English

The Greek myth of the Fates’ prophecy - Iseult Gillespie

Dig into the Greek myth of Meleager, who set out to end a boar’s destruction of his city along with Greece’s best warriors. -- The night of her son's birth, the queen of Calydon was visited

Culture History
English

The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' daughter - Stephen Esposito

Get to know the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, who was determined to give her slain brother Polyneices a proper burial. -- The gods watched as Oedipus’ daughter, Antigone, stole

Culture History
English

Can humans be trusted with control over genetics? - Michael Vazquez and Raye Ploeger

Puzzle through this classic ethical dilemma and decide: should parents be able to choose genetic traits for their children? -- Andre and Leslie are a deaf couple who have decided to have

Academic Science
English

What caused the fall of one of the most influential empires in history? - Mostafa Minawi

Trace the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which lasted nearly 600 years until their defeat in World War I as part of the Central Powers. -- Under cover of darkness in 1909, Sultan Abdulhamid

Culture Academic
English

How much would it cost to buy the Sun? - Cella Wright

Dig into the monetary value of the Sun and how important it is as our energy source as Daedalus contemplates buying it. -- Daedalus hasn’t been the same since losing Icarus. Suddenly, he

Business Science
English

How did detectives solve the case of the bloody fingerprints? - Theodore E. Yeshion

Learn more at -- In 1902, detectives arrived at a grisly murder scene and found a shard of broken glass with several bloody fingerprints. They painstakingly searched

Science History