Learn from Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping is an American magazine that covers woman’s interests in diet, recipes, style and beauty, and house. It also endorses the consumer products by awarding the “Good Housekeeping Seal” based on its testing.

As to housekeeping, nothing is too trivial or boring. Using short video at its website, it tells you how to cook asparagus or make chocolate chip cookies, slash pet-care costs, and offer anti-aging tips. Under its Product Testing channel, it also recommends the products in many categories.

You can also watch Good Housekeeping’s video at its YouTube channel.

Learn from Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American magazine known for its coverage of popular culture–especially music–and politics. Its heyday has long passed, but its influence remains.

At the video section of its website, it reports news (“Michael Jackson’s Final Days“), reviews movies (“Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince“), and features music (“U2“). The drawback is that you don’t have a lot of videos to watch.

Let stone roll and learning start.

Learn from Big Think

Big Think was launched last year to share ideas online, the ideas coming from the experts in almost all the fields–science, social, politics, culture, etc.

Big Think’s interviews are great for language learning. Not just that the ideas are usually fascinating, but also the interview style is short, direct, and simple. Best of call, it provides the transcript along with the video. You can browse the videos either by Topics or by Experts.

It also has a channel in YouTube with over 200 interviews.

Learn from The Nation

The Nation is the magazine started in 1865, the oldest weekly publication in the U.S. Today, it’s proud of itself as “the flagship of the left”.

The Nation does a lot of video reporting through its website under Video Nation. The videos are listed chronologically. There is only one category–politics, and they are usually ideology-charged. To get a flavor: see “Is the US a Socialist Country?“, “The US and Russia“.

You can watch many of Video Nation’s reports at its YouTube channel.