Don’t kill your language
More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But — what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE MEMBERS ARE INSPIRED BY JEWISH TRADITION TO WORK TOGETHER FOR PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY BASED ON THESE IDEALS. Visit the website: http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org
The evolution of western dance music
http://www.thomson.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/infographic/interactive-music-map/index.htmlWatch this short animation as it illustrates the evolution of western dance music in under 1 minute. From its combined roots in traditional african music and western folk songs, you can see the progress and influence of an entire branch of modern music....
Say hello in 40 different languages!
Nearly 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. Some languages have many millions of speakers wheras some have fewer than ten! Here we teach you how to say hello in forty languages from around the world! Reproduced...
Polio is 99% eradicated. Why stop there?
Polio is an infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. It is highly infectious, and can have debilitating impacts. While it can strike anyone, at any age, the...
How we’ll stop polio for good
Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most...
An Introduction to Polio
Polio is an infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. It is highly infectious, and can have debilitating impacts. While it can strike anyone, at any age, the...
Global Citizen – Sustainability
Dawsons Creek actor and Global Citizen Ambassador Joshua Jackson Narrates this story about Sustainability. Production Company: The Academy Director: Brikk Editing: Brikk Storyboard: Gustaf Öhrnell Illustration: Gustaf Öhrnell 2D Animation:...
Read more“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
– Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein
Piper and the End of Polio
Follow 24-year-old Piper Paquen from Pittsburgh, PA, as she pieces together the incredible unfinished story of the immense global effort to end polio. Polio is this weeks GLADE focus. Piper Paquen from Pittsburgh, PA is out to stop...
What would the world look like if all the ice melted? Explore the world’s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and...
http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection The British Council Film Collection is an archive of 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by...
ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us
ʻĀINA (pronounced "eye-nah") means “That Which Feeds Us” in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai - and of island Earth. That may...
Challenge yourself to identify some eighty languages by their sound alone. Learn more about how languages sound and where they're spoken. Amongst the thousands of languages spoken across the world, here are just eighty. How many can you distinguish between? ...
BME Female Unemployment
Short film to accompany the All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community's report on ethnic minority female unemployment. Read the full report on the Runnymede Trust website, www.runnymedetrust.org See more videos at:...
Race and Dementia
Dementia doesn't care about the person. We should. Dementia affects nearly 25,000 people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups in the UK. The population makeup of the UK means that these numbers will only increase...
Conversation with Robert Milligan – Hendrik Herides
In the summer of 2007, two groups of teenagers aged 14 to 19 from the London Borough of Newham participated in a unique experience: assisted by video artists and historians, the teenagers uncovered sites related to historical racism and...
BMX culture in Ghana
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1210656943/bikelordz-release-the-movie-bring-bikes-to-ghana-fAnother perspective on bikes in Ghana. Bikelordz is a short documentary about the self-taught, self-invented bicycle culture which young people in Accra, Ghana have created and passed on to their younger contemporaries over time. It follows crews of these young...
There are already a number of bike-related initiatives in Ghana, so maybe the competitiveness can run alongside real entrepreneurship? The Ghana Bamboo Bikes is a socio ecological green initiative that addresses the quadruple problems of climate change, poverty,...
BIOFABRICATE 2015 | Summit Highlights
BIOFABRICATE is the annual summit for the emerging world of grown materials. We were excited to once again be hosted by Microsoft at their wonderful Times Square headquarters in New York city. From yeast and bacteria to mushrooms and...
UNESCO – Hamdan Awards
The office of his highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum approached Real Image TV in 2009 to create a 40 sec. TVC. In cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an award from his...
Global Learning through the Curriculum – value for money CPD
Curriculum development for up to 6 curriculum areas for secondary or primary teachers. This course helps teachers deliver global learning through subjects and their everyday teaching. Consultation included to ensure CPD meets school priorities. Select choices from a...
http://playingforchange.org/ Playing For Change arose from a common belief that music has the power to connect people regardless of their differences. In 2005, a small group of film makers set out with a dream to create a film rooted in the music of the streets. Not...
http://www.international-alert.org/ We help people find peaceful solutions to conflict. We empower local people to build peace by providing them with training, advice and support. We bring together communities divided by conflict to find ways of resolving their...
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is an ideal. Its principles reinforce that everything you do has consequences, even when they’re hidden from view. Its worldview imbues you, as either a consumer or producer, with a clear, undeniable sense of responsibility. It...
New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
French economist Thomas Piketty caused a sensation in early 2014 with his book on a simple, brutal formula explaining economic inequality: r > g (meaning that return on...
Nandan Nilekani: Ideas for India’s future
Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
An interesting take on how language can spread. Anyone who travels beyond Delhi and Mumbai to India's provincial cities will notice English words cropping up increasingly in Hindi conversation. While some of these terms fell out of use in the UK decades ago, others...
Business and sustainable development – can they work for each other?
Private investment is key to secure the USD 3.3 to 4.5 trillion needed yearly to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. A new OECD report looks at how to ensure that doing good for people and the planet is also good for business....
An attempt to map ancestral (parent, grandparent) and international (born abroad and dual citizenship) connections at the 2014 World Cup. The most connect team... Switzerland! http://codehesive.com/wc-ancestry/
