Selected VOA Special English TV Videos
About 150 Videos Selected for Our Students

The newer videos are near the top of each category.
To see all the videos, go to VOA Special English TV Videos.

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
• Plan Aims to Expand Broadband Across US
• Educational Technology: Not Just Computers

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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