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The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

AdultsArtEducationHistory
Sisyphus was both a clever ruler who made his city prosperous and a devious tyrant who seduced his niece and killed visitors to show off his power.
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Ancient Mesopotamia 101 | National Geographic

AdultsCreativityHistoryIndustry
Ancient Mesopotamia proved that fertile land and the knowledge to cultivate it was a fortuitous recipe for wealth and civilization.
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The Disturbing Thing Ghosts Could Be

AdultsHistoryPsychologyScience
What’s that sound.....is it ghosts?
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ABC of SLA

TeachersHistoryTeacher CafeEducationLanguage
Scott Thornbury's history of second language acquisition (SLA) in a nutshell. A lot of great ideas.
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How to Use the Google Newspaper Archive

TeachersHistoryReadingTeacher CafeEducationTechnologyHow-to
A short YouTube video about the basics of using Google Newspaper Archive for classroom use. Search for local and regional content for your students, classes and lessons.
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The Mystery Over The @ Sign

TeachersHistoryTeacher CafeInternet Culture
The @ Character is the symbol of the internet age, and crucial for emails and social networking. But no-one really knows where it came from, writes Claire Bates. Read on to learn more.
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The princess who rewrote history

AdultsHistoryReadingCulture
Anna Komnene, daughter of Byzantine emperor Alexios, spent the last decade of her life creating a 500-page history of her father’s reign called “The Alexiad.”
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Unbelievable Myths From The 1980s DEBUNKED!

AdultsHistoryScienceCultureHumor
What crazy things did we believe back in the 1980s?
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He Spent 40 Years Alone in the Woods, and Now Scientists Love Him

AdultsEnvironmentLifeStyleHistorySociety
Welcome to Gothic, Colorado-one of the coldest places in the United States. This ghost town has been abandoned since the 1920s, but there is at least one person who still calls it home.
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Why is Aristophanes called

AdultsHistoryHumorSociety
Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world's earliest surviving comic dramas.
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Primitive Technology: Iron prills

AdultsHistoryTechnologyNatureDIYHow-to
Primitive Technology: Iron prills - Creating Iron prills from scratch
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A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor

AdultsHealthHistorySociety
It's another sweltering morning in Memphis, Egypt. As the sunlight brightens the Nile, Peseshet checks her supplies.
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Did the Amazons really exist?

AdultsHistoryWomen
It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary.
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How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone

AdultsHealthHistoryWomen
In 1960, Frances Kelsey was one of the Food and Drug Administration's newest recruits. Before the year was out, she would begin a fight that would save thousands of lives - though no one knew it at the time.
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Are We All Related?

AdultsGeneticsHistoryHumanScience
In part 3 of our special series on human ancestry, we investigate how closely related we all really are.
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Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs?

AdultsAnimalsHistoryNatureScienceEvolution
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago devastated the dinosaurs. But today's birds are proof there were a few survivors.
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Which is stronger: Glue or tape? - Elizabeth Cox

AdultsHistoryScience
The oldest glue in the world is over 8,000 years old and comes from a cave near the Dead Sea.
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This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

AdultsHistoryScience
If we didn't have neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible.
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What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler

AdultsHealthHistoryNeuroscience
In ancient Greece, the best-known remedy for a long-standing headache was to drill a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.
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Time: The History & Future of Everything - Remastered

AdultsHistoryHumanWorld
The History & Future of Everything
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A day in the life of an ancient Athenian

AdultsHistorySociety
It's 427 BCE, and the worst internal conflict ever to occur in the ancient Greek world is in its fourth year.