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Why Even Sliced Bread Wasn’t that Great at First

In this video, best-selling author and founder of Squidoo, Seth Godin, explains why tried-and-true marketing techniques no longer work and reveals what does work in today’s changing market. Godin...

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Jamie Oliver’s Crusade for Children’s Health

Jamie Oliver, the British celebrity chef who started a healthy-eating revolution in British schools, presents his ideas for battling America’s obesity epidemic in this video. Oliver, who brought his...

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The Illusion of Security

In this thought-provoking video, Bruce Schneier explores what makes people feel secure and takes a hard look at the tradeoffs people are willing to make in order to feel that way. Schneier, a respected...

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Eukaryopolis: The City of Animal Cells

Do you remember high-school biology class? What stands out the most about your teacher’s lectures on the parts of the animal cell and their function? Was it the way he used a dancing image of Mussolini...

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Entrepreneurship and Energy

Recorded and originally presented at Yale University, this video features Patrick Von Bargen delivering the inaugural speech of the university’s 2011-2012 Sabin Prize Environmental Adventures Speaker...

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Can Smartphone Apps Make Government More Efficient?

Jennifer Pahlka, a coder and civic activist, believes that apps and other new technological innovations can allow the government to encourage healthy community activism. Pahlka’s group, Code For...

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14-Lecture Course: World History

World History Crash Course offers fast but extensive overviews of early and modern civilizations and their places in world history. Introduced and narrated by historian John Green, each video serves as...

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The State of the World Economy in 2012

In a talk chaired by Professor David Held, economists Jean-Mechel Severino and Martin Wolf discussed the state of the world economy and how power imbalances will come into play over the next several...

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Speakers Explain Uniquely Human Genetic And Neurological Traits

In a presentation from the University of California in San Diego’s Center For Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, several speakers took part a public symposium to give varying perspectives...

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Arduino Shows the Potential Power of Open-Source Technology

Massimo Banzi is one of the creators of Arduino open-source microcontroller board, which has captured headlines for its versatile, simple and completely free platform. Banzi certainly never intended to...

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Richard Dawkins Talks About His Book: The Greatest Show On Earth

Richard Dawkings talks with Roger Bingham about his book, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution. Richard Dawkins has written a number of books about evolution, beginning with his first...

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Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics

Lasers are everywhere. They are vitally important to an incredibly large number of applications. They are used in bar code readers, compact discs, medicine, communications, computer printers, data...

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What Are Economic Bubbles? – The dot.com Bubble

There have always been bubbles and there will always be bubbles. Bubbles are when a products value continues to rise considerably beyond its true, intrinsic value. People buy simply because they...

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Introduction to Psychology

This course is about you. It gives you a very detailed view on what do we understand in a scientific way about the human nature. Why do people behave and think the way they do. You will be taught how...

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Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

The main purpose of this course is to help you to become skillful in making the computer to do what you want it to do. Once you’ve acquired this skill, your first instinct when confronted with many...

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Artificial Intelligence

This course will introduce you to the field of artificial intelligence. You’ll be explained the challenges that are inherent in building a system that can be interpret as intelligence. On taking this...

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Darwin and Design

We all have views on evolution. We’ve all taken high school biology. You’ve all been exposed to several concepts. But fundamentally evolution is a subject. Darwin was a key figure in the development of...

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Highlights of Calculus

Highlights of Calculus is a series of short videos that introduces the fundamental concepts of calculus. Mathematics professor, Gilbert Strang, will guide you through a number of calculus topics to...

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Internet Technologies

In this course you'll learn what internet is, how internet has evolved over the years and how it has incorporated different technologies, techniques and applications under a single umbrella making it...

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Introduction to Quantum Physics

Quantum mechanics applies to everything. It applies to human beings, galaxies, the universe presumably, electrons, photons and so on. In this 31-part lecture professors V.Balakrishnan teaches you...

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