In Billie Jean King: Fighting for Equality, sports journalist Clare Balding talks to Billie Jean King about her influence on equality for women in sport. King put her career on the line when she accepted an offer to play against one of the world's top male tennis players, Bobby Riggs, and won. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In The Go Jetters Play at Wimbledon, the Go Jetters are in London at the Wimbledon tennis court. Ubercorn shares funky facts about Wimbledon including what makes the stadium unique and why it has a guard hawk. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Go Jetters, a series that follows the adventures of four international heroes as they travel the globe visiting landmarks and solving environmental problems with Ubercorn, a disco-dancing
In Table Tennis: Boosting Brain Power Through Play, host Harith Iskander shows how this fast-paced game gives your brain a major workout. From making quick decisions to coordinating hand movements, table tennis engages different parts of the brain, including the motor cortex, cerebellum, and prefrontal cortex. As players react to the ball, plan their moves, and remember their opponent’s patterns, the hippocampus — the memory center of the brain — gets stronger. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Einstein’s Year of Miracles: The Theory of General Relativity, narrator Kate Yule discusses the four papers that Einstein wrote in 1905, a year that is known as the Year of Miracles. One of those papers was on the Theory of Special Relativity. Watch how tennis balls being ejected from a moving truck appear stationary from the ground, but appear to move when observed from the truck. This illustrates how moving objects can appear differently when viewed alongside other moving objects. Learn how this theory can be applied to light to redefine the notion of time. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Billie Jean King: Fighting for Equality, sports journalist Clare Balding talks to Billie Jean King about her influence on equality for women in sport. King put her career on the line when she accepted an offer to play against one of the world's top male tennis players, Bobby Riggs, and won. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In The Go Jetters Play at Wimbledon, the Go Jetters are in London at the Wimbledon tennis court. Ubercorn shares funky facts about Wimbledon including what makes the stadium unique and why it has a guard hawk. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Go Jetters, a series that follows the adventures of four international heroes as they travel the globe visiting landmarks and solving environmental problems with Ubercorn, a disco-dancing
In Table Tennis: Boosting Brain Power Through Play, host Harith Iskander shows how this fast-paced game gives your brain a major workout. From making quick decisions to coordinating hand movements, table tennis engages different parts of the brain, including the motor cortex, cerebellum, and prefrontal cortex. As players react to the ball, plan their moves, and remember their opponent’s patterns, the hippocampus — the memory center of the brain — gets stronger. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Einstein’s Year of Miracles: The Theory of General Relativity, narrator Kate Yule discusses the four papers that Einstein wrote in 1905, a year that is known as the Year of Miracles. One of those papers was on the Theory of Special Relativity. Watch how tennis balls being ejected from a moving truck appear stationary from the ground, but appear to move when observed from the truck. This illustrates how moving objects can appear differently when viewed alongside other moving objects. Learn how this theory can be applied to light to redefine the notion of time. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.