The wars that inspired Game of Thrones
AdultsBooksFilmHistory...Beginning around 1377, medieval England was shaken by a power struggle between two noble families, which spanned generations and involved a massive cast of characters, complex motives and shifting loyalties. Sound familiar? Alex Gendler illustrates how the historical conflict known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones.
Batkid Begins
AdultsFilmHealthSociety...It's November 15, 2013.Twenty-five thousand people descend on San Francisco. Online, two billion others join in. This massive crowd erupts with a collective display of public emotion rarely seen. With a Beatlemania-like intensity, people take to the streets and screens. They are all united to fulfill the wish of 5-year-old Miles Scott, who is recovering from Leukemia. It is his dream to become Batkid and save Gotham City. Batkid Begins chronicles the making of the overnight international phenomenon that is Batkid.
The greatest TED Talk ever sold
AdultsFilmMarketingMedia...With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage naming rights for this talk were sponsored too. By whom and for how much? He'll tell you.)
Downhill MTB Course Preview on Technical French Trail
AdultsFilmSportsAdventureClaudio Caluori is back for a new year of World Cup course previews. A new track awaits the world's fastest as they make their way to Lourdes, France, for the opening round of the UCI MTB World Cup. Join Claudio with special guest, Lo�c Bruni, as they take to the French hillside for the first course preview of 2015.
GoPro: On the Ice with Patrick Kane
AdultsFilmSportsEntertainmentStep 'On the Ice' with Patrick Kane as he puts on a stickhandling clinic around every obstacle we could throw at him.
How YouTube is Like a Potato
AdultsFilmInternet CultureSocial Media...Do we need more diversity in online video?
GoPro: Furious 7 - Behind the Scenes
AdultsFilmMarketingTechnology...Let Furious 7 take you behind the scenes of their newest film, to show you how the crew and the aerial camera flyers drop multiple cars from a C130 Airplane... and capture the shot.
This new type of 3D printing was inspired by Terminator 2
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyDesign...This new 3D printing technology by Carbon 3d looks like science fiction. But it's entirely real. Vox's Joseph Stromberg explains.
Kid Snippets: "Dentist Visit"
AdultsCreativityFilmHumor...If movies were written by our children... We asked a couple girls to act out what it was like to go to the dentist. This is what they came up with.