Professor Ed Copeland on the latest news to come from the Planck project - talking about the Big Bang and the resulting microwave radiation. [YT]
posted by radx 1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 415 views • 17:26Videos (61) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube Description: Firing a (very old) musket and filming with a (very new) high-speed camera. With thanks to Jim Gamble. Also discussed by Professor Martyn Poliakoff. Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221185953... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 296 views • 7:32This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 4 months ago • 228 views • 3:50YouTube Description: Stephen Hawking just scooped a $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize. Our very own Dr Tony Padilla (who missed out on a prize this year) discusses three of Professor Hawking's... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 362 views • 9:30YouTube Description: A huge crystal of calcite is used to demonstrate birefringence, a side-effect of light's refraction through certain materials. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield.... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 8 months ago • 856 views • 6:55YouTube Description: Professor Roger Bowley uses fuse wire, magnets and electrical current for a quick demonstration.
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 709 views • 4:40YouTube Description: http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 827 views • 20:35I may have some tears for all the excitement... Wondering what the Higgs Boson is? http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-What-is-the-Higgs-Bason From YT: Professor Ed Copeland and Brady tune in live... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 10 months ago • 2,585 views • 8:39From YT: A visit to the toilet is included in Professor Phil Moriarty's explanation of 3D glasses. How do 3D films give us that three dimensional effect?
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,522 views • 10:26From YT: We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,481 views • 9:27From YT: A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided. Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in Nature. Check it out at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,102 views • 4:24Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,607 views • 6:02The badass professors drop some science
posted by acidSpine 1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,476 views • 11:54Professor Mike Merrifield talks about how all the stars of a galaxy move around at the same speed, which would make the the pretty spiral pattern impossible. He explains the "winding paradox" and how then... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,236 views • 7:43From YT: Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 651 views • 9:48Part of their Easter series, the professor talks a bit about 6 dimensions and how the eggs helps model it... I will freely admit more of this one went over my head than usual.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 weeks ago • 943 views • 6:11Professor Merrifield, one of the regularly featured guests of the Sixty Symbols videos discusses why he has an Atlas of Creation on his bookshelf. Apparently the book is the cause of lots of comments with... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,620 views • 1:34Professor Merrifield discusses right ascension and declination, axial precession and how those topics came up in the shift in Astrology.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,130 views • 7:55From YT: Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 3 months ago • 6,814 views • 5:56Ok, I admit it. Nerd crush on Prof Moriarty.
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