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16 Nov Future thinking: End the war between you and yourself

Posted at 09:48h in B1 - Intermediate, Big Think, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Economics, Environment, North America, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science, Technology

This video focuses on the importance of us, as individuals and as a society, being conscious of, and then actively planning for, the arrival of our future-selves. The title is very doom and gloom laden (and misleading, IMO) but the tone of the video is lighter...

16 Nov Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?

Posted at 09:38h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Economics, Environment, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture

Rome became the first city in history with one million inhabitants and was a centre of technological, legal, and economic progress. An empire impossible to topple, stable and rich and powerful. Until it wasn’t anymore. First slowly then suddenly, the most powerful civilization on earth collapsed....

29 Sep Your Genes Affect Your Education

Posted at 12:47h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Environment, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Attempts to study inequality in society have to consider the impact of genetic inequality despite its controversiality, this video does just that! ...

29 Sep Why Foreign Aid Doesn`t Work

Posted at 12:21h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Management, Politics, Polymatter, Problem Solving

Why do grave world problems still exist despite the billions of dollars being inverted into them? Is corruption responsible? ...

29 Sep What is we could refreeze the Arctic?

Posted at 11:23h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Economics, Environment, Management, North America, Other, Problem Solving, Science

The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free and when all of the ice is gone, the world won't be the same...

29 Sep This is why we can`t have nice things

Posted at 10:54h in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Environment, Funny, Management, North America, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology, Veritasium

An investigation into objects such as light bulbs, printers and phones and how the same products made today are not necessarily better...

29 Sep Think you have a «Type A» personality? Sorry, that`s fake news!

Posted at 10:30h in Australia, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Braincraft, C1 - Advanced, Environment, Funny, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

Have you ever been classed as Type A or Type B personality? How did you react? This video discusses the side effects of labelling and where they actually originate from....

29 Sep The Future of Augmented Reality

Posted at 10:02h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Fashion, Management, North America, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology

Can enhanced versions of the real physical world using digital visual elements improve the way we learn? Various applications are presented to show the future of this type of technology and how it will affect our world. A useful topic to debate not only the future...

28 Sep Beware online «filter bubbles» TED

Posted at 12:18h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Environment, Management, North America, Politics, Problem Solving, Technology, TED

How does information flow online? Are you paying attention to what gets filtered on your social media accounts? How do our filters get edited out and which companies do it? Does a standard Google still exist? A controversial talk about how the internet is showing us...

26 May Is it time to eat bugs?

Posted at 10:56h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Environment, Funny, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology

This comedy sketch takes a lighter look at the growing industry of insects as a source of food....