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What is Farthest Away?

Adults Data Science Science Space
The edge of everything used to be the edge of the map. But now, thanks to what we know about astrophysics and the universe, the edge of everything might not even exist…

The Disturbing Thing Ghosts Could Be

Adults History Psychology Science
What’s that sound.....is it ghosts?

CHRISTMAS MEGA MIX | A Jamie Xmas/Thanksgiving compilation

Adults Creativity Culture Food
We've gone back to the archives to give you all you will need to make your Christmas go with a bang. Sit back and enjoy nearly half an hours worth of Christmas crackers.

Ancient Mesopotamia 101 | National Geographic

Adults Creativity History Industry
Ancient Mesopotamia proved that fertile land and the knowledge to cultivate it was a fortuitous recipe for wealth and civilization.

Rare Dumbo Octopus Shows Off for Deep-sea Submersible

Adults Animals Film Life
National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.

4 Sweet Potato Breakfasts

Adults Food
Sweet Potatoes four ways for Breakfasts.

This Rare Mutation Gives You Massive Muscles At Birth

Adults Biology Health Human
This RARE mutation can make you VERY muscular, but what exactly is happening to cause this? Is it harmful?

Crispy Korma Salmon | Jamie Oliver | AD

Adults Design Food
This salmon recipe really is a game changer and a brilliant way to bring a whole world of spice to this amazing fish.

How to Build a 4K Editing Computer

Adults Data Science Design Technology
The fast rendering capability of this new machine actually let me eat dinner with my family on the first night I used it. This is incredibly important to me.

Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy

Adults Design Human Psychology
It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?

The Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky

Adults Nature Science
What’s the largest river on Earth? If you said “the Amazon”… you’re only half right. Scientists have discovered an even bigger river in South America, and it’s in the sky above the Amazon rainforest.

Liberals vs Conservatives

Adults Education Politics Psychology
Are Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?

Human Horsepower | Because Science Live

Adults Human Science
What unit do we use to measure "human power"?

How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery

Adults Construction Design Science
In 1895, crowds flooded Coney Island to see America’s first-ever looping coaster: the Flip Flap Railway. But its thrilling flip caused cases of severe whiplash, neck injury and even ejections.

Why I Hate School But Love Education

Teachers Teacher Cafe Art
English rapper-poet Suli Breaks is out with a video that's taking the Internet by storm, and young people are loving it.

Repetition in ELT

Teachers Teacher Cafe Language
Author Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.

The benefits of Extensive Reading

Teachers Reading Teacher Cafe
Professor Richard Day, Chair and Co-founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation, explains the benefits to language learners of extensive reading.

Google Apps for English Teachers webinar

Teachers Teacher Cafe Technology
Lead by Kevin Brookhouser, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer and Google Certified Teacher. Learn some more ways you can use Google Docs & Sites in your English classrooms to have a collaborative writing process and dynamic assignments.

How do you stop online students cheating?

Teachers Teacher Cafe Education
Here is an article (and a video that doesn't seem to be working) on cheating and online courses from the BBC. Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions. Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Teachers Teacher Cafe Education
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.

Engaging Generation Y with technology, 28th March 2013

Teachers Teacher Cafe Technology
We're not always teaching Generation Y, but learners think and behave differently than those from previous generations. These students were born into a world of information technology; they regularly multitask and they trust the ideas of peers and web videos more than their teachers.Generation Y is significant: it constitutes 20 percent of the world's population. As Gen-Y occupies the young end of the population demographic, we can assume many second language learners belong to this group; it demands our attention and understanding.