EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

  About the video/content creator:   Nuseir Yassin  is a Palestinian-Israeli video blogger  who created 1,000 daily 1-minute videos on Facebook under the page,  Nas Daily .  In 2016, Yassin quit his job at Venmo and decided to explore the world, with the intention of video-documenting his travels.  Transcript Let's assume I ask for your name... "What is your name?"  "My name is Alyne."   But, I never heard that name before, so instead, I call you ' Alan '. "Alan, nice to meet you." "Alyne!" Soon enough, you will get angry.  "My name is not Alan! It's Alyne!" This may sound funny but it happens to all of us. Our names get messed up all the time! But what if I told you that the world map has the same problem. Take Kenya for example. This country is named after a mountain when a British person came to visit, the locals   said this is Mount Kirinyaga . The British man couldn't pronounce it. So, he said, "From n...

Lesson by Skye C. Cleary, animation by Avi Ofer. Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing... often all at the same time! If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet – but over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Skye C. Cleary outlines five of these philosophical perspectives on why we love. Transcript Ah, romantic love - beautiful and intoxicating , heartbreaking and soul-crushing , often all at the same time. Why do we choose to put ourselves through its emotional wringer ? Does love make our lives meaningful, or is it an escape from our loneliness and suffering? Is love a disguise for our sexual desire, or a trick of biology to make us procreate ? Is it all we need? Do we need it at all? If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet. But over the course of history, some of our most respected...