In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading
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Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 133 views • 2:03(Description via YouTube) In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn.... continue reading
posted by Procrastinatron 1 decade 10 months ago • 1,723 views • 16:09YouTube Description: How does a transistor work? And when will Moore's Law break down? Supported by TechNYou - check out their great series on the scientific method: http://bit.ly/19bBX5G Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 1 week ago • 271 views • 8:49YouTube Description: David Brent is launching a series of guitar tutorials on YouTube, starting May 20th.
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 1 month ago • 93 views • 1:39Based on the zefrank series, True Facts, we find ourselves marvelling at the introvert courtesy of Pleated Jeans.
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 437 views • 2:48This clip from the BBC’s Edwardian Farm documentary series shows how rope was made back before industrial factories spun threads together. It involved pulling and suspending fibers across long distances... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 1,236 views • 2:50YouTube Description: Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the question that had occupied physicists... continue reading
posted by aaronfr 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,437 views • 7:40It's a PARTY! YT: Amazing footage of how little forest dwelling monkeys use Piper leaves (which have insect repellent properties) to protect themselves against the same unpleasant nip a mosquito would... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 161 views • 2:39Water dropped onto pure sodium sizzles and then explodes. Part of a series of videos exploring chemical reactions at an insane 10,000+ frames per second.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 64 views • 5:43One of an ongoing series of videos about celestial objects from the Messier catalog, this one's about M104, the Sombrero Galaxy.
posted by renatojj 1 decade 2 years 3 months ago • 370 views • 4:00The newest series from the guy who does the Sixty Symbols and related videos. From YT: Charles Messier's "anti-list' of objects in space has become iconic in the world of astronomy. We'll making videos... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 984 views • 7:26From Brady Haran's new video series, Numberphile: explaining binary to understand why Pac-Man becomes unplayable after 255 levels.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,518 views • 5:24Part 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 1 month 3 weeks ago • 943 views • 6:11From YT: We're uploading a series of "eggsperiments" to mark Easter, starting with these crash tests from the Biomechancal lab.
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,574 views • 1:56Thomas Young is best known to us today for the double slit experiment that showed light behaves like a wave. He also did some important, if a bit "was he insane?!" experiments about how the eye works... ... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,876 views • 6:23Another in the My Favourite Scientist series by the guy who does the Sixty Symbols videos. Rob Morris from Nottingham Trent Universit talks about his favorite scientist, Michael Faraday and about a lot... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,792 viewsThe film-maker who makes the Sixty Symbols videos, the Periodic Table of Videos among others, has another series about Nottingham's favorite scientists. The scientist featured this time up is Richard Feynman.
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