Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia, USA
The University of Cambridge is one of England's greatest universities. There's no main campus – instead, the university's many colleges are scattered throughout the charming town center. Many colleges welcome the public to browse around.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Isaac travels by van through North America with his wife and his dog. Today he stops off in Quebec, Canada to tell us a little about the culture, cuisine, and most famous landmarks of this old city.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maggie has just landed in Mexico, and heads straight for Tulum, a once crucial trading post for the Mayan civilization, with spectacular clifftop ruins.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada, Northern Ireland
The Irish Rovers is a Irish-Canadian folk band. Their song "Titanic" is a tribute to the famous RMS Titanic, written on its 100th Anniversary. It tells of the ship’s beginnings and Irish pride, as well as its devastating sinking.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
The English language has changed in many ways over the centuries, but the internet has changed it in just a few decades. Why use a whole sentence when an abbreviation will do?
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So KURZGESAGT teamed up with the awesome blog WAITBUTWHY and made this video to help you put things in perspective!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Did you know that the T-Rex dinosaur is closer to us in time than to its distant ancestor, the Stegosaurus? Watch this amazing video for the fastest history of the universe ever told!
This video has been a collaboration of KURZGESAGT & WAITBUTWHY!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Andy Beem (Windsports, CA) and Billy Vaughn (Kitty Hawk Kites, NC) talk about flying 1895 Lilienthal and the 1902 Wright glider replicas, and engaging with the history of human flight on a tactile level.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Are you interested in aviation? Here's the first chapter of a documentary about the invention of the airplane entitled Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
What does the Holocaust have to do with us, anyway? In part two, Roderick Miller, the chair of the nonprofit organization Tracing the Past, gives a talk at TEDxVienna about the Holocaust and contemporary Europeans' perception of the space they live in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
What does the Holocaust have to do with us, anyway? In part three, Roderick Miller, the chair of the nonprofit organization Tracing the Past, gives a talk at TEDxVienna about the Holocaust and contemporary Europeans' perception of the space they live in.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Filmmakers Christina Fon and Stevie Salas are interviewed about Rumble, their documentary exploring how Native American musicians have influenced rock n' roll.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada, USA
Stevie Salas and Christina Fon discuss what is next for the film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World as it premieres around the world.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Join Karine as she goes behind the scenes at the University of Oxford, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions and alma mater to kings and presidents.
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