Jean Luddy's List: Culture and Religion

Web site compares and contrasts how different cultures measure time through days, weeks, months and years.

A compendium of world wide writing systems from prehistory to today covering historical linguistics, alphabets and writing systems.

Interactive site with diagrams of the FBI's organization, stories of the FBI's successes and failures, and a timeline of the FBI's history.

A small demonstration of cultures and traditions from around the world, Earth Calendar is built on the idea that every day is a holiday for someone somewhere.Earth Calendar
has three simple search options, holidays by date, holidays by country, or holidays by religion.

The Travel Film Archive is a collection of hundreds of travel films recorded between 1900 and 1970. The films were originally recorded to promote various places around the world as tourist destinations. In the archives you will find films about US National Parks, cities across the globe, and cultural events from around the world. The films are a mix of color and black & white footage. The earliest footage is silent while the later footage is narrated.

Snag Learning Film of the Week, T-shirt Travels, shows you what happens to that clothing. More than a story about secondhand clothing, it's a story examining the causes of growing inequalities between the rich countries and the poor countries of the world. Watch the film and find discussion questions here

Fasten Seat Belts is a neat website designed to help travelers learn the cultural norms of the places they plan to visit. The site offers videos for travelers going to countries in Europe and Asia. You can search for videos by country or by theme (table manners, bar customs, etc).

One video is a short explanation of some of the theories and science of the human sleep cycle. The other video, a BBC production, includes interviews with researchers who are trying to answer the questions where do dreams come from and why do we dream?

Crash Course Psychology follows a same fast-paced, content filled format . The first installment offers an overview of what psychology is and some of the base concepts and their contributors to the field of psychology.

Using US census data this map looks at how names have grown and waned in popularity in different states since the early 1900