Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin, but his lesser known frenemy, Alfred Russel Wallace, was developing a lot of the same ideas around the same time.

How can smog affect the life expectancy of people? Scientists have investigated the causes and repercussions of The Great Smog of London in 1952, and continue to study the effects of air pollution around the world today.

Legendary architect Renzo Piano -- the mind behind such indelible buildings as The Shard in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the new Whitney Museum of Art in New York City -- takes us on a stunning tour through his life's work....

On July 26, 1943, Los Angeles was blanketed by a thick gas that stung people’s eyes and blocked out the Sun. Panicked residents believed their city had been attacked using chemical warfare. But the cloud wasn’t an act of war. It was...

John Green teaches you about Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, To the Lighthouse. Let's face it. You're not reading To the Lighthouse for the plot. There's not a whole lot of plot, unless you count the tension about the beef stew. You're...

Can an algorithm forecast the site of the next riot? In this accessible talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows how complex social behavior can be analyzed and perhaps predicted through analogies to natural phenomena, like the patterns of a...

When we began mass-producing matches in the 1800s, workers in the factories started dying mysteriously. The history of our sparking little flame-sticks is darker than you think.

It's lights up in America! This week, we're headed to North America. We'll look at Native American storytelling traditions, the theater that Europeans brought along starting in the 17th century, and how theater developed before and after...

"Survival of the Fittest" sounds like a great WWE show but today we're talking about that phrase as it relates to Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace. Darwin and Wallace are at the heart of understanding evolution and natural selection....

We need a more considered approach to using social media for social justice, says writer and activist Ione Wells. After she was the victim of an assault in London, Wells published a letter to her attacker in a student newspaper that went...

The English Theater survived a lot of pushback from various powers that be, but in the 17th century, it had to go into hiding, from PURITANS. Let's take a look at how the English Civil War, Charles I's beheading, and the Restoration of...

This video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrityhttp://ori.hhs.gov.' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Integrity For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous...

The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain...

TED talks about a queer journey from shame to self-love | Crystal Rasmussen

In 1776, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of "taxation without representation", reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben...

New ReviewI flew through Abu Dhabi’s no-go zone – here’s what happenedCredit: Simon Calder/The Independent

New ReviewWe take a look at England, with our presenter Kat. Learn about places to visit, important cities, mountains and rivers, common languages, hear the story of Saint George and more!

New ReviewThousands of Brits stranded in Australia as Gulf flight chaos enters day fourSimon Calder

‘Hero’ bus driver who was sacked after catching a thief demands apologyCredit: ITV/GMB

Businesses have truly three options with their overall business strategy. They can grow, they can maintain, or they can get smaller. This video talks about the business basics of overall grand strategies that businesses and firms can...

In this video made with and for Elmbridge Museum we introduce Gerrard Winstanley, the civil war radical who led the Diggers movement.

This video explores how motte and bailey castles helped William I consolidate his conquest of England, looking at Windsor Castle as an example.

Police release new footage of escaped prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif as manhunt continuesCredit: Metropolitan Police

Interview with Israeli journalist at Kings College October 7 protestsCredit: The Independent