"The Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team has been using its drivers to open up the dark world of F1, and in this video Nico Rosberg demonstrates what we've long suspected: the driving position in a Formula 1... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 1,054 views • 2:34

The Mongols are no longer the exception

posted by xxovercastxx 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 1,836 views • 11:32

My favourite children's author, has inspired many movie adaptations, most of them amazing. This takes a brief look at some of them plus his inspirations for writing them. Best YT comment: FUS ROALD DAHL:D

posted by alien_concept 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 795 views • 4:00

Shucking corn with Ken.

posted by silvercord 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 1,767 views • 2:01

Supposedly in three minutes, but I bet you'd need some practice first.

Fast forwarding from ca 1000 AD until 2005 showing Europe's shifting borders, alliances, unions, territories, occupied land etc.

posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 5,058 views • 3:24

Cafe Neko ("Neko" meaning "cat" in Japanese), where customers can have drinks while playing with cats, opens in Vienna. And yes, I do believe that's a Japanese woman speaking German, or some similar dialect...

posted by blahpook 1 decade 2 years 10 months ago • 1,163 views • 1:09

The story of Beth Thomas who was sexually abused and neglected by her biological father and was diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder. A documentary compiled of interviews with Beth and her adoptive... continue reading

Continued here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jegFEixfe50 From Connections, Episode 9, "Countdown" by James Burke

posted by halfAcat 1 decade 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,355 views • 6:15

In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our traditional perception of the Crusades as European Colonization thinly veiled... continue reading

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,597 views • 11:33

Runners traverse the grueling Great Wall on a marathon course.

posted by longde 1 decade 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 636 views • 8:14

The Rise and Fall of Islam in the West.

posted by longde 1 decade 5 years 1 week ago • 1,255 views

Ambassador Shinn will speak about non-western involvement in Africa with a particular focus on China, India, Brazil, Russia and Iran. All of these countries, especially China, have stepped up their engagement... continue reading

posted by longde 1 decade 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 525 views • 10:00

In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth,the... continue reading

posted by geo321 1 decade 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 889 views • 59:14

"In which John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, right up to Paul and how Christianity stormed the Roman Empire in just a... continue reading

posted by kevingrr 1 decade 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,293 views • 11:37

"China has the biggest penal colony in the world - a top secret network of more than 1,000 slave labour prisons and camps known collectively as "The Laogai". And the use of the inmates of these prisons... continue reading

posted by notarobot 1 decade 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,591 views • 25:00

YouTube Description: From something as small and complex as a chromosome to something as seemingly simple as the weather, sex determination systems vary significantly across the animal kingdom. Biologist... continue reading

posted by Zifnab 1 decade 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,797 views • 5:46