Radio program “This American Life” explains the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in the episode “355: The Giant Pool of Money” broadcasted May 9, 2008. The host Ira Glass along with NPR correspondent explains the big picture and put the complex subject in simpler terms that we can understand. You can heard the full episode on thislife.org.

Or you can hear a shorter explanation titled “Global Pool of Money Got Too Hungry” on npr.org.

Found on YouTube listed here are free video lectures from the University of California at Berkeley. Lectures include physics, biology, search engines, and more.

An eleven part podcast series is available on the web linked here. Dr. Michael F. Roizen talks with Julie Bain from Reader’s Digest about tips for a health heart.

Watch video here. Video of a lecture titled “The World is Flat” where Thomas L. Friedman talks about globalization in business. This talk was given at MIT. Thomas Friedman is author of the books The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, and of course The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Watch the talk at MitWorld.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, talks at MIT about three of Amazon’s web services: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Jeff answers some interview questions at the end. If you want to skip over the preliminary introductions by the Technology Review, just jump to 6:45 in the video which is when Jeff starts talkings.