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Here's a cartographic exploration of 10 centuries of European history animated into a five-minute video. As The Map Room notes, it's a shame that there isn't a timeline or some other indication of the year each border or country name changes, but it's still pretty great.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Shot in one continuous take, this awesome video by the Clovis High senior class captures every aspect of high school life.
The Kingdom is getting mixed reviews, but the opening credits of the movie were a gripping and pretty informative 4-minute lesson in the history...
Youtube user College Binary's Three Minute Philosophy video series is an awesomely fun entry point for those who haven't studied the subject....
A touching six-minute film about a man's best friend.
Drunk History is still going, and volume 6 is perhaps the best one yet. It's the amazing story of Nikola Tesla, featuring John C. Riley and...
Earlier this spring, a group of students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business took a trip through California and Nevada. Their mission:...
"Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents," and other true facts about incoming college freshmen.
Scientists from NASA, MIT, and Brown University have created the most comprehensive map of the moon's craters to date. And they made a gorgeous video.
Just as our classrooms have changed significantly since the 1800s, so have our ideas about the purpose of schools.
Calling all cartographers! Using the USDA's data, you can map the connection between farmers' markets and food deserts in your neighborhood.
GOOD asks author and architect John Kriken about the gap between dense, urban living and the American Dream.
This brilliant film strips 35 movies down to their most iconic imagery and presents them all in a single, fluid two-minute animation. Going in...
This video takes a talk by the author Daniel Pink, who writes about work and motivation, and adds some excellent extemporaneous illustration in...
One ambitious cinephile took 270 films that were either produced or distributed in 2010 and edited them into the following video, "Filmography 2010."
A new mural recently completed in Boyle Heights is part of a global campaign to empower young people in the preservation of water.
A fun way to take stock of the last decade: ASME and MPA's "10 Years in 2 Minutes with 92 Magazine Covers" (video after the jump). We love...
TakePart and Buck made this infovid to provide some context (and buzz) for Waiting for "Superman", the upcoming documentary on America's...
Still skeptical about whether Twitter can help shy students? Meet L.A. middle school teacher Enrique Legaspi and his students.
Conscious of the toll oil spills like Deepwater Horizon take on animals, one major oil company devised a procedure for washing off oil that's...
Via MTA cameras, watch every runner in the New York Marathon complete the race, very very quickly.
