External Site: 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy[info]
These brief animated films are narrated by comedian David Mitchell and were developed by a team from the Open University’s Science faculty. The videos cover concepts such as dark matter, the Big Bang, asteroids, black holes and event horizons, aiming to explain big scientific ideas and, in the words of OU Reader in Cosmology Dr Stephen Serjeant, ‘still have room for a few jokes’. The films are available on YouTube and can be downloaded for free from iTunes. A sister series 60 Second Adventures in Economics takes a similar approach to explaining concepts of economic theory.