SciShow delves into the minds of some of humanity’s greatest scientists. Some of them are: Dmitri Mendeleev – brilliant Russian chemist, the man behind the periodic table. Gregor Mendel – the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental
The United States’ military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military – an amount more than what was spent by the next 13 countries combined. Now that the war in Iraq is over
After a violent end to the recent protests, Thailand, a country of over 60 million people, was facing its worst political crisis in decades. For two months anti-government protesters, the so-called red shirts, had taken over key parts of downtown Bangkok, demanding for Abhisit Vejjajiva, the country’s
Filmed over the course of a school year, Music Changes Lives follows the progress of two Dublin schools – St. Agnes’s in Crumlin, and St. Ultan’s in Cherry Orchard, both of which are providing compulsory music tuition for all children in the schools. The results are astounding.
In 1973, a woman walked out on her husband and children. Filmmaker Ian Hawkins was one of those children. A Nuclear Family is the poignant story of an ordinary family dealing with divorce. It’s also the story of an independent filmmaker turning interviews, memories and old family
A documentary that debunks the myth of large-scale dams as clean energy and a solution to climate change. It records the priceless cultural and natural heritage the world would lose in the Amazon and Mesopotamia if two planned large-scale dams are built, Belo Monte dam in Brazil,
East Timor is one of the poorest countries in Asia. Its only economic hope for the future lies in massive reserves of oil and gas in the Timor Sea. But as small and young a state as it may be, it is certainly a nation of fighters.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people’s lives. Increasing
The conflict that erupted in Benghazi was as unexpected as it was cataclysmic, but at its heart lay years of hurt and political repression. Through personal stories told by the people of Benghazi, we trace the conflict from its beginnings in a small protest over one lawyers
Fata Orlovic is a 70-year-old Bosnian widow. Hers is one of the most intriguing and dramatic war stories of modern times. Fata’s suffering reflects the plight of many Bosnian war refugees still fighting for justice. Her hometown of Konjevic Polje was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces. Her