Selected VOA Special English TV Videos
About 150 Four-minute Videos Selected for Our Students

The newer videos are near the top of each category.

Architecture

• Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil

Computers

• Facial Recognition
  • Part 1: Living in a World With Facial Recognition
  • Part 2: Facial Recognition Systems Bring Privacy Concerns
• A False Sense of Security on the Internet?
• A Better Computer Mouse Cursor for the Disabled
• Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
• Taking a Closer Look at the Future of Video Conferencing
• Aiming for Work in the Video Game Industry
• Making the World Wide Web More Usable to a Wider World
• 3-D Printers Are Here -- and They Make More Than You Think
• Privacy Concerns Hit Facebook, Google
• Computers, Children and the Digital Divide

Environment / Ecology

• Next Step After Carbon: Knowing Your Nitrogen Footprint
• After Brain Study, New Questions About Mobile Phones
• Studying How Plastic Pollution Enters Ocean Food Supply

Games

• Game Over for Limits on Violent Video Games
• Pinball Lover Goes Full Tilt in Collecting 'Historic Art'
• Using Computer Games to Support Democracy and Conflict Resolution

Gardening

• Hot in the Garden: Too Much Sun Can Be Bad for Vegetables
• Gardening: Vegetables Made in the Shade
• Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control
• Putting Worms to Work to Help Your Garden
• Grow It Yourself: Onions Are Nothing to Cry About
• In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses
• Growing Chili Peppers: A Heated Subject
• Beauties in the Garden: Growing Ornamental Trees and Bushes
• Grow It Yourself: Turning Bulbs Into Beautiful Blooms
• In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce
• Now, Some Gardening Advice, Brought to You by Thomas Jefferson
• Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control (Older Version)
• Farming in the City: Joys of Growing Food
• Getting the Most Out of Mums (Chrysanthemums)
• Getting Started With Roses
• Rise in Food Gardens in US Brings Crop of Questions for Experts
• Want to Grow a Root? Beets Are Hard to Beat

Health

• Wising Up About Wisdom Teeth
• How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Children?
• What Do You Know About the Common Cold?
• Cold Weather (2011 Version)
  • Part 1: Advice for Staying Warm and Safe in Freezing Weather
  • Part 2: Slow and Gentle Are Best in Treating Hypothermia
• Staying Safe: Food Safety After a Flood
• Eating White Rice Increases Risk of Diabetes
• Ear Care: Do-It-Yourself Wax Removal
• The Argument Over Salt and Health
• Counterfeit Drugs
  • Part 1: The Dangers of Counterfeit Drugs
  • Part 2: The Dangers of Counterfeit Drugs
• Cold Weather (2010 Version)
  • Part 1: Want to Stay Warm in Winter? Think COLD
  • Part 2: Slow and Gentle Are Best in Treating Hypothermia
• When a Cut Finger Is More Serious Than It Might Seem
• Less Salt Can Mean More Life
• Health: Now, an Update on Those New Year's Resolutions
• Some Tips for Cold Storage of Foods

How to Do Things

• How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater
• Smoking Fish
  • Part 1: Preparing Fish for Drying or Smoking
  • Part 2: How to Dry or Smoke Fish
• Building a Straw House
• Working With Clay: A How-to Guide
• How to Do It: Making Paper by Hand

Japan

• A Credit Downgrade for Japan, but Some Signs of Hope
• For Japan Farmers, Radiation Fears Mean Economic Pain
• Japan's Early Warning System One of the Best in the World
• Nuclear Crisis in Japan Raises Worries About Radiation Risks

Language

• Are People Who Speak More Than One Language Smarter?
• Business English Speakers Can Still Be Divided by a Common Language
• Need Help With Your Writing? Try This Web Site
• Study Adds to Understanding of Language and the Brain

Money

• How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money

Music

• Behind the Music: The Making of a Paul Reed Smith Guitar
• Chuck Brown: Still the Go-To Guy for Go-Go Music
• Are You Learning English? These Songs May Help
• Broken Instruments Are Music to the Ears of These School Repairmen
• Drum Circle Widens Into a United Nations of Beats
• Inside the World of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• Music Promoter Turns American Women Into 'Bellydance Superstars'
• Music Teacher in Boston Offers Life Lessons to Young
• A Student Orchestra, Where the Players Decide What to Play
• What Happens When Child Prodigies Grow Up?

Nature

• Local and Global Pressures Threaten Coral Reefs
• Bats Are Welcome in This Home
• What You Can Do to Help Bees
• Scientists Use Radar to Study Bats, Birds and Insects
• Activists Say Fishing Limit Not Enough to Save Bluefin Tuna
• Saving the Bog Turtle, One of the Rarest Kinds in North America
• New Findings About Disorder in Bees

People

• George Ballas: Inventor of Weed Eater Started a Revolution
• Jaime Escalante: Math Teacher
• Chesley Sullenberger: Hero Pilot Now Turns to Stopping a Descent in New Pilots
• Manute Bol: How Manute Bol Used His Sports Fame for a Greater Good
• John Wooden: How the Great Coach John Wooden Defined Success
• Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician
• World's Oldest Barber Can Still Give 25 Haircuts a Day
• How People Like Levi Strauss Put Their Mark on the American West
• Steve Badt: He Trained in the Restaurant Industry, and Now He Serves the Homeless
• John Dewey, 1859-1952: Educator and 'America's Philosopher'
• Bess Lomax Hawes Brought Folk Music to a Wider Public
• Earl Cooley: Remembering an Early Smokejumper
• Buzz Aldrin: Still Looking to the Stars, and Hoping Others Will Too
• B.J. Adams at Work in Her Studio
• Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Remembering Norman Borlaug
• Stanley Kaplan: Remembering a Test Prep Pioneer
• Making a Difference: Tanya Pinto

Places

• In Texas, a Museum for a Larger-Than-Life Hero, Sam Houston
• 2000 Years of Computing History at a Museum in California
• For Martin Luther King, a Memorial in Washington Designed by a Chinese Artist
• Visiting the National Arboretum in Washington
• Disney Family Museum Honors Mickey's Father
• Desert Museum in Arizona Exhibits Native Plants and Animals
• New York City Celebrates Its 400th Anniversary

Space

• Is NASA's James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine?

Sports

• The Making of the Best-Known Bat in Baseball, and Pop Culture
• In Treating Athletes, Is Trainer's Sex an Issue? Sometimes It Is
• Studies Link Girls' Sports to Gains in Life

Unsorted

• Stylist's Job Is to Make Food Look Pretty for the Camera
• A Possible Safe New Way to Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria
• Comparing American and Chinese Parents
• WHO Says Alcohol Abuse a Leading Cause of Death, Disability
• Fish Farms May Soon Supply More Than Half the World's Catch
• Virginia Ages Into a Fine Winemaking State
• Looking to Robots and Other Technology to Improve Health Care
• A Whole New World, Brought to Us by Gizmos and Gadgets
• What a Couple's Arguing 'Style' May Say About Their Marriage
• How Failure Can Lead to Long-Lasting Knowledge
• Uncooperative Goat Becomes the Mother of an Invention
• Teaching the Dangers of Distracted Driving, Before It's Too Late
• A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers
• A Shelter for Abused Animals, Where Volunteers Also Find Healing
• How a TV Appearance Did the Trick for a Rising Young Magician
• Broccoli and Cauliflower Their Tops Make Good Eating
• Burros Can Do More Than Work Just as Pack Animals
• Where the Dinosaurs Are, Part 1
• Two Studies Give a Lift to Running Barefoot
• Steps Urged to Prevent Snakebites, Improve Treatments
• New Understanding of How Plants Use Water
• Keeping Plants and Trees Warm When Temperatures Drop
• Solar-Powered Pumps Aid African Farmers
• Making Better Concrete With Rice?
• Write or Wrong: The Death of Handwriting?
• Punishment or Reward: Which Works Better on Behavior?
• Learning the Secrets of the Potato, and an Enemy
• Cities Now Home to More Than Half of All People
• 50th Anniversary of VOA Special English
• The Importance of a Simple Water Pump
• The Life of a School Nurse? Busy
• Getting Clunkers and Distracted Drivers Off the Road
• E-Books Hold Next Chapter for Book Industry

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