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- https://quirkologyblog.wordpress.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Psychology
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- Blogs, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This website includes articles, videos, animations, fun tests, and online experiments that complement the book Quirkology by Professor Richard Wiseman on unusual aspects of human behaviour. A page on the website links to six short videos on the popular Quirkology YouTube Channel that illustrate some of the psychological phenomena discussed in the book. The videos cover the colour-changing card trick (illustrating a phenomenon known as change blindness); the psychological card trick; mathematical prediction; the missing piece; a disappearing trick involving a mirror; changing frames of reference. A DVD is available that contains high resolution versions of the videos for use in teaching.
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- http://sciencehack.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Dentistry, Engineering, Genetics, Geology, Medicine, Psychology
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- Databases, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
ScienceHack is a search engine for science videos. The site does not itself host videos but indexes them from sources such as YouTube and Metacafe. All videos included in the database have been approved by a panel of scientists for accuracy and quality. At the moment there are relatively few videos listed under each topic heading, but a section on the home page lists latest additions to the database.
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- https://www.conspiracydocumentaries.com/
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies, Psychology, Social Studies
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Conspiracy Documentaries was set up in 2009 to provide a 1-stop source for the best conspiracy documentaries on the net. All films are free to watch and are sorted into categories such as assassinations, banking, Big Brother/police state, 9/11, 7/7, environment, energy & fuels, health/drugs, media, mind control, political, religions, secret societies, space, technology, UFOs & extraterrestrials, war, war on terror, new world order, lost/ancient civilisations. The website does not itself host any videos, but only provides links to videos already available on the Internet.
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- https://royalsociety.org/further/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Computing, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geology, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Psychology, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
To celebrate the range of scientific issues discussed during the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary year the Science Sees Further website has been set up. It offers all those interested in science an opportunity to look at the key scientific issues of today, and those of tomorrow. The site is arranged in 12 chapters based on the subjects of the year’s discussion meetings - the ageing process, biological diversity, cognition and computation, cultural diversity, extra-terrestrial life, geoengineering, global sustainability, greenhouse gases, new vaccines, stem cell biology, uncertainty in science, and web science. Each section comprises an attractive subject summary (authored by the meeting organisers), short historical context using material from the Society’s Centre for History of Science, as well as interactive audio and video material.
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- https://www.thinkbox.tv/
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, History, Psychology, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Thinkbox is the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, in all its forms. The attractive website provides a cornucopia of information on an extremely wide range of topics relating to television viewing habits including articles, statistics, case studies and research on TV effectiveness, new TV technologies and services, and programming information with links to broadcasters’ own sites. They also hold free training workshops and presentations around the country on topics such as the latest research on how our brains process TV and online experiences and what this means for creativity and planning, and the emerging platforms for distribution of TV content and how these are affecting the nature of TV viewing and advertising. Many of these events are streamed as live webcasts and then made available later for viewing on-demand. A separate section of the website provides a gallery of recent television adverts and older classic ones by theme. Most of the content of the website is available on open access, and other areas after free registration.
Its shareholders are Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky Media and Turner Media Innovations Thinkbox works with the marketing community with a single ambition: to help advertisers get the best out of today’s TV.
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- http://video.uk.msn.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Geography, Psychology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
A free video-on-demand service from Microsoft, launched in a beta phase in August 2009 with 300 hours of programming, much of it from BBC Worldwide but now incorporating aterial from other channels too. Complete series are streamed and selections are organised by genre: comedy, drama, documentary, sci-fi, entertainment. In the documentary section are The Human Face, Great British Journeys, Human Instrinct, Sahara, and Around the World in 80 Days
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- http://www.cerimes.fr/la-banque-dimages.html
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Environmental Studies, French Studies, General Science, Genetics, Medicine, Nature, Physics, Psychology
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Distributors, Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
Within CERIMES (Multimedia Resources and Information Centre for Higher Education) is the SFRS (Scientific Research Film Service), which is part of the Ministry of Education in France and specialises in providing films for use in Higher Education. Over a 260 films are streamed free online using Flash, and over 2,000 more are available for sale on DVD (Zone 2 PAL) or CD-ROM as well as being available for Mpeg4 download. Most of their material is only available in French, though there are a few exceptions. Also included is an online catalogue of close to 2,000 audio visual and multimedia resources which can be searched by title, personality, year, subject and format.
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- https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Dentistry, Environmental Studies, Genetics, Geology, Medicine, Physics, Psychiatry, Psychology
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- Film/Video
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- Podcasting, Video Sources
A wealth of continuously updated video content of science-related news and research. Videos are arranged under the subject headings health, space, technology, mind & brain, energy & sustainability, evolution, and ‘more science’. There is a discussion forum to comment on the videos, open to anyone who registers with the site.
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- http://www.simonslab.com/index.html
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- Science and Technology
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- General Science, Psychology
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The Visual Cognition Lab of the University of Illinois has created a number of videos that show the limits of perception, attention, and awareness. The videos come from Professor Daniel Simons’ experiments on visual awareness, and demonstrate how different viewers will see different things in seemingly simple actions. The videos include A Person Change Video, Changes Across Cuts in a Motion Picture, and A Subject in a Real-World Person Change Event . All require QuickTime or Java. A famous Simons experiment, the ‘basketball’ video, is available as a Java applet, from http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/sciam.html. The videos, which cannot be downloaded, are also available for purchase on a DVD, Surprising Studies of Visual Awareness.
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- http://www.closertotruth.com
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, General Science, Medicine, Psychology, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
CTT is an American public television series, a companion book, series of home videos, audiotapes and a web site, and seeks to being together "leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate the fundamental issues of our times". The site includes details of video and audio sales, TV schedules, particpants, and a online forum for debate; there is also a streaming video archive (uses Real) for programmes under the broad themes of Brain & Mind, Creativity & Thinking, Health & Sex, Technology & Society and Universe & Meaning. They include such ambitious titles as What Are the Grand Questions of Science? Will the Internet Change Humanity? What is Consciousness? Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility? Why is Quantum Physics so Beautiful? and How Does Technology Transform Society?
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