Marc-Uwe Kling reads new things about the kangaroo. Maybe also something about Elon and Jeff on Mars. And then the kangaroo calls for Digital Independence Day. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-guide-to-the-energy-of-the-earth-joshua-m-sneideman Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in wh
Nelson Mandela is famous for its fight against racial segregation in South Africa, the Apartheid. His unique efforts for peace and reconciliation were honored by creating the Nelson Mandela Day, July 18th. This simpleshow summarizes the main milestones on Mandela's way to more freedom in his country
In the 11th and 12th centuries, a once great culture settled in the south of the USA - in Chaco Canyon: the Anasazi. How was this possible in an area where it didn't rain for almost ten months of the year? Author: ZDF/Terra X/Tobias Schultes/Oliver Roetz, Maria Zimmermann/Marc Trompetter Translati
How did the Germans settle and live? In the 1st century BC only about two and a half million Germanic tribes settled in all of Europe. No village had more than 200 residents. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah, Cristina Trebbi/Martin Christ, Marc Riemer, Joachim C. Seck/ Claudi
The men made a big fuss about their hair, which they styled extensively with their universal weapon, the comb. The Suebian knot was especially popular. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Group 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah, Cristina Trebbi/Martin Christ, Marc Riemer, Joachim C. Seck/ Claudia Spoden, Ramin Sabeti/F
The Roman historian Tacitus claimed to know what made the Germanic peoples tick: they are stubborn, sometimes in a bad way. Caesar thought they were chaotic, and therefore the complete opposite of his Roman soldiers. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah, Cristina Trebbi/Martin Ch
Baghdad in present-day Iraq was built in the 8th century on an important trade route between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. The metropolis was probably designed as a round city Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/Faber Courtial, Susanne Utzt, Sahar Eslah, Martin Carazo Mendez/ Martin Christ, Marc Rieme
Around 700 AD, the Arabs ruled over about 60 million people. At the head of the empires there was a caliph. Right below were the governors of the provinces, who primarily collected taxes. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Susanne Utzt, Sahar Eslah, Martin Carazo Mendez/ Martin Christ, Marc Riemer, Joac
The temperament theory was developed by Greek scholars in ancient times and used by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages. It was once used to treat diseases that could not be cured surgically. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Susanne Utzt, Sahar Eslah, Martin Carazo Mendez/ Martin Christ, Marc Riem
The ancestors of the Germanic peoples probably lived in Eurasia. Around 1000 BC., some of them reached the settlement area between the Baltic Sea and the Alps, and throughout centuries, they even reached the Danube, the Vistula and Scandinavia Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah
In pre-Islamic Arabia, many gods were worshipped. There was one supreme god and many local gods. Many were probably descendants of millennia-old deities who had already been worshipped in the Near East. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Susanne Utzt, Sahar Eslah, Martin Carazo Mendez/ Martin Christ, Ma
