Clips Viewed

2020

Three Tenors Sing New York, New York

Just a little song about British

 


2019

How Playing an instrument benifits your brain by Anita Collins

 


Switzerland and Brexit

Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie


Your genes are not your fate" by Dean Ornish

Why Sitting is Bad for You" by Murat Dalkilinç

Why should you read A Midsummer Night's Dream?" by Iseult Gillespie

 

A Cannabis Conversation - Spoken by Terence McKenna


2018

Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye, "When the Saints go Marching in"

The Genius of The London Tube Map by Michael Bierut

Luciano Pavarotti and Tracy Chapman singing a duet...

Malala Yousafzai and Justin Trudeau.

The press conferences of Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams following the US Open tennis finals

TED talks: Catherine Crump "The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you".

 


2017

We viewed following clips. The clips are unavailable online

  • The opening remarks from President Barack Obama's final press conference on 18 January 2017.
  • A clip from the Indian film "Rangoon", the song entitled, "Bloody Hell.”
  • A clip of Jimmy Fallon on US politics, as relayed by the New York Times daily brief.
  • We viewed images from Cassini's Mission to Saturn and the video clip "Cassini Burns into Saturn".
  • Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2003.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie video clip "Hair is Political"  

The Banned Books exhibit by Marta Minujin


2016

TED talk "Who are you really? The puzzle of personality" by Brian Little.

We viewed following clips. The clips are unavailable online

  • Shakespeare's first folio , Shakespeare volume one, Discovery.
  • "Inspired by Monty Python: What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?" by The Guardian .
  • Beatles sing "Help" at Ed Sullivan show 1965.  

"A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship" with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin . 

Barack Obama and Jimmy Fallon: Thank you notes

"Pessimism" by Alain de Botton