All About Computers
It's all about computers! We go way back and look at computer developments over the years, and talk to people about their worst computer experiences.
Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984
Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people. Andy Hertzfeld captured the moment quite well in his retelling: "Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face, obviously holding back tears as he is overwhelmed by the moment. The ovation continues for at least five minutes before he quiets the crowd down."
(4:48)
Apple Inc. A Quick History.
It is 2007.  The video starts with showing how Leopard can store a copy of everything in time machine. If you can't find your files spotlight searches the past to locate files. Next it pops back to Steve Jobs in 1977 doing a demo of Machintosh. (7:27)
Apple through Time
A quick history of the Apple Macintosh adventure starting from 2007 and going back in time to 1976.  It begins showing the iMac, the 2006 iPod nano, 2006 Macbook, 2001 iPod, back to 1976. The video shows some commercial footage. (5:14)
Apple MacBook Hard Drive Installation
Macbook hard drive Installation - It's not as hard as you think to replace a hard drive in an Apple MacBook. Start by flipping it over and opening the back with a coin. Remove the battery-find the screws holding the hard drive in. Step by step directions in written text-no speaking. (3:02)
Herodotus and Part 1
This is a school project about the history of Herodotus and the Battle of Thermapylae. The skit takes the viewer back in time to conduct an interview with Herodotus. (Amateur video)
Skype Tutorial
This is the best communication tool you can use. You can send files back and forth as well as talk. It shows you how to download the program, to edit your profile, how to put in your contacts, how to contact your contacts-you can chat as you are talking to another person. (7:49)
Buy Me That: Helping Kids Understand Advertising
In 1990, HBO, in a collaboration with Consumer Reports Television, aired the first of three half-hour specials about children and advertising. The programs pulled back the curtain on many of the techniques and tricks used in TV commercials. Since the programs were clearly teaching "media literacy" the programs became popular with teachers and media educators alike. Alas, the videos are no longer available, although some libraries may still have them on the shelves. Now, here, for the first tim
Food Ad Tricks: What You Don't Know About Food Commercials
In 1990, HBO, in a collaboration with Consumer Reports Television, aired the first of three half-hour specials about children and advertising. The programs pulled back the curtain on many of the techniques and tricks used in TV commercials. Since the programs were clearly teaching "media literacy" the programs became popular with teachers and media educators alike. Alas, the videos are no longer available, although some libraries may still have them on the shelves. Now, here, for the first tim
I Can Write My Numbers Song (0-9)
In this clip there are poems for each of the numbers 0-9 to remember the form and shape of each. While saying the poem the numbers are shown being with paper and pencil. It may be beneficial to
stop the video at times so that child is actually practicing the writing
of the numbers, or to go back and re-watch parts with tracing of
numbers.
Microanatomy of the Lungs
Presented here is the microanatomy of the lungs and its components. The video shows an animated lung while a narrator explains the various parts labeled on the screen.  "Alveolar sacs are the terminal portions of the breathing tube system. Composed of up to thirty tiny air pouches, or alveoli, they provide a lung a total surface area of about 850 square feet for the exchange of gases. Terminal bronchioles carry air to and from alveolar sacs. Cells lining bronchiole walls bear cilia---minute ha
"Sonnet 147 - My love is as a fever.." by William Shakespeare (poetry reading)
A frightening Halloween poem from Bill the Bard.
It calls to mind a situation that is all-too real. It is perhaps the most frightening thing of all - the discovery that you have been deceived, that your beloved never loved you. While you were at work labouring to provide a good life for your loved ones, your wife was amusing herself with her back-door man: the local, handsome ne'e-do-well who never did an honest day's work in his life. Now you must continue to work hard to support them bot
Gary Paulsen Lecture - Part 1 of 3 Lecture took place on October 27, 2007. He starts his speech with how his youth was troubled, he did not play sports, barely got through school, did not like to read, parents were alcoholics, and had a rough childhood. One day he went to the library to get warm, the librarian asked him if he needed help. She told him he needed a library card, he was amazed because no one gave him anything. He said that card made him somebody.Â
Prescription Drugs Misuse, Abuse, Overdose & Diversion Video
 When America entered the new millennium, it entered a new era in the world of drug abuse. Prescription drug abuse is a problem that's spilling out of pill bottles and into the lives of millions all across our country. Back in 2000, about 1.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs. Two years later, that number quadrupled -- to more than six million. That's a 400% increase. Thousands of people die each year because they overdose on prescription medications. (1:00:11)
The Lehman fallout: blame the bankers, not the banks
The banking industry, post-Lehman Brothers, is going to be quite a different one going forward, because the impact of the banking crisis was so profound that changes are inevitable.
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" by Robert Frost (poetry reading)
This was written in 1934
The old picture of lumberjacks comes from this site:
http://www.antiquephotographics.com/Format%20Types/Tintypes/occupationalstt.htm
The Chopping Block - Jesslyn Fraser
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-chopping-block-jesslyn-fraser.html
Plenty of analysis here:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/tramps.htm
Out of the mud two strangers came
And caught me splitting wood in the yard,
And one of them put me off my aim
By hailing cheerily "Hit them
"Hiawatha's Photographing" by Lewis Carroll (poetry reading)
Many of Lewis Carroll's parodies are so good that the originals are now forgotten. Hiawatha, though, is too robust for that. What this parody shows is that the verse form works even better as comedy.
http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/carroll/hia.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
"Lunar caustic" is silver nitrate. My only opportunity ever to use this nearly useless scap of knowledge - as useless as the little-known fact that most tortoises die of diphtheria - was when a Italian d
Native American Pacificwest Art
A selection of Pacific Northwest Native American art prints and paintings by Indian artists from Squamish Nation, BC Canada. This is modern art.
Ancient Sea Life in Utah
January 9, 2009—Some 93 million years ago, dinosaur-era "sea monsters" swam the seas above what is now Utah. Thanks to paleontologists, more evidence of the ancient beasts is now surfacing.
Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., HEALING SPACES: The Science of Place and Well-Being
"Esther Sternberg is a rare writer--a physician who healed herself by going back to ancient truths known by the Greeks, and proving them. With her scientific expertise and crystal clear prose, she illuminates how intimately the brain and the immune system talk to each other, and how we can use place and space, sunlight and music, to reboot our brains and move from illness to health."
-Gail Sheehy, author of "Passages"
For more on the book, visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=978
