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- https://www.webofstories.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Previously known as People’s Archive is a service "dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers and creators of our time". Currently it features detailed interviews with biologists, filmmakers, physicists, mathematicians and craftsmen from various fields. Oddly all the interview subjects were initially male currently, but presumably this was coincidental and is slowly being addressed - currently there are interviews with Diana Athill, Dorothy Hodgkin, Paula Rego, Denise Scott Brown and Gitta Sereny. The archive currently contains over 200 items totaling over 100 hours. The clips have been very well encoded. A well organised resource which is very effectively segmented, it offers good transcriptions of all interviews and provides valuable oral histories. Subdivided into Remarkable People and Great Lives, with the latter organised into Arts, Politics and Science.
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- http://depts.washington.edu/fishscop/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Nature
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The films provided by the University of Washington, Department of Zoology, supported by the American National Science Foundation deal with the developmental biology of Zebra fish embryos at its various stages. One of the most interesting features is the availability of 3D films that follow Zebra fish gastrulation. Viewers can also use the arrow keys on their keyboard to view the films frame by frame. Time-lapse recordings that illustrate the morphogenesis of Zebra fish embryos are also available. All the images appear in black and white and are available in both QuickTime and Native MPEG formats. Thorough descriptions are provided and also some information on technical metadata.
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- http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Nature
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
A three-year expedition has been undertaken by the ship, Odyssey to gather the first ever baseline data on levels of synthetic contaminants throughout the world’s oceans. It will use whales, albatrosses and pelagic fish as indicator species for measuring the health of the seas. The website provides oral reports and commentary from events in the journey so far and the sound quality provided by RealPlayer is excellent. The section ‘Interactive Ocean’ allows visitors to enter and tour the Odyssey, hear sounds of animals from the oceans and a look through the bowcam, a camera mounted at the bottom of the ship. Periodic film reports are also made from the Odyssey. These include short documentaries on marine animals and plants around the globe. Documentaries are also given on filming techniques and environmental issues.
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- https://www.hhmi.org/wild-eyed-alaska
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- Bio-Medical
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- Environmental Studies, Nature
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska a grant to place several video cameras on nearby Gull Island in Kachemak Bay for the study of marine and coastal wildlife. These ‘electronic companions’ can be both controlled on-site and remotely from the museum and viewing stations. Visitors to the website can see six video clips including those taken by cameras in coastal bird colonies and underwater. Informative narration and text accompanies the film, which is seen via Real.
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- https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/index.html
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Chemistry, General Science, Nature
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Very impressive collection of short animated videos from the photomicrograph collections of Florida State University, being ‘time-lapse digital image sequences that explore the effect of rotating polarization, sample rotation, and crystallization as it actually appears under the microscope.' The videos can be streamed using Real Player to suit low or high bandwidths (from 14.4K up to T1 or DSL connections), with a selection of uncompressed digital videos available as AVI downloads. The videos are available in four ‘galleries’: Chemical Crystals, Pond Life, the QX3 Microscope Time-Lapse Movie Gallery , and the Nikon MicroscopyU Digital Movie Gallery , and each comes with supporting descriptions.
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- http://www.pbs.org/saf/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Physics, Psychology, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Scientific American Frontiers is an American television series hosted by Alan Alda and broadcast on PBS. Its site gives the current TV schedule, teaching materials, and a very impressive video archive of past programmes, searchable by topic or keyword. This offers either complete programmes or segments using Real or Windows Media Player, for low or high-band connections, with most having an accompanying transcript where users can click on a particular point in the transcript to access that point in the video. Topics covered include archaeology, astronomy, biology/nature, chemistry/physics, computers/technology, earth science, engineering/mathematics, medicine/health, and psychology/cognitive science. Some have links to PBS web features, teaching guides etc.
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- http://www.ideachannel.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Environmental Studies, Literature, Medicine, Music, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
An extensive collection of video and audio clips taken from interviews with scientists and scholars, including several Nobel Prize winners (Milton Friedman, Ilya Prigogine, Norman Borlaug, John F. Nash, Linus Pauling and others), available as streamed audio or video (a number are listed as being available shortly), with complete videos or transcripts available for purchase. The site is clearly arranged and described, and is categorised under Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, Culture, Economics, Environment, Health/Medicine, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.
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- https://archives.caltech.edu/search/index.html
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, General Science, Physics
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Technology
The Caltech Archives’ (California Institute of Technology) holdings include an extensive library of audio and video recordings of lectures and other scientific presentations. It holds the original tapes of the 1961–1962 Feynman lectures on physics. Also held is a series of about 60 interviews with physicists worldwide conducted by Caltech’s Kip Thorne while researching his book, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy (1994). Most audio and video holdings are preserved in their original format and the Archive is incrementally migrating older analog media to digital formats for preservation and to make them accessible online. Audio and video material may be identified through a search of our catalogue by a name or keyword.
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- http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/ohre/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- American Studies, General Science, History, Physics
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Office of Human Radiation Experiments leads the USA Department of Energy’s efforts to tell the agency’s Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. Historic documents are being made available over the Internet, and these include audio and video recordings. The films, from the National Archives, include The Atom and You, Paramount News, 25 March 1953; Iodine - 131 (1958) that shows three actual case studies on patients treated at Argonne National Laboratory in 1949; and Atom in the Hospital (1961), showing UCLA research and findings of the effects of radiation on the human body. The films require Real, available for 28.8K, 56K or T1 connections.
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- http://www.findsounds.com
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Music, Nature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Findsounds.com is a search engine for sounds. Sounds can be accessed via a simple search or by searching from sound types. Audio files can be downloaded as AIFF, AU and WAVE. Sound types are divided into various categories, including Birds, Animals, Mayhem and Nature. The sound files within these are extensive: for example, there are eight volcano sound files, twenty-five sound files of didgeridoos, eleven examples of thunder, and five kookaburra recordings. All searches link the user to audio files hosted by external websites.
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