4 reasons to learn a new language
English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar...Boots, Shoes and Suffragettes
A documentary about the life of Alice Hawkins, who was a Leicester based shoe machinist and suffragette in the early 1900’s, as told by her descendent Peter Barratt. This was a joint project between Zenithfilms and Treasure Box Media, funded by Museum Buddies...Islamic Art
A documentary film about Islamic Art. Shot on Super 16mm film in Iran, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and...The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend — not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks...How schools kill creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines)...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.)
