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- https://www.howstuffworks.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology, Biology, Computing, Engineering, General Science, Nature, Technology
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The brainchild of former North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain, this site uses various media, including podcasts and videos, to explain how things work. It is essentially a popular science site but contains a great deal of high quality educational content and has now expanded to cover non-science subjects (see for example How Nepotism Works). Searching is made easier by a clear interface in which categories with their various subdivisions are simply displayed: the Engineering Videos page, for example, features categories such as Robotics, Buildings and Structures, Materials Science. The site’s videos and podcasts are supplemented by a number of blogs.
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- http://eps.berkeley.edu/~saekow/chronozoom/
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- Science and Technology
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- Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, General Science, Geology, History, Physics, Technology
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ChronoZoom is an open source, community collaboration between UC Berkeley, Moscow State University, and Microsoft Research that aims to cover - literally - life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the present day. Visually stunning, if potentially overwhelming, Chronozoom works dynamically, based as it is on zoomable interactive timelines, to create a visual sense of the immensity of time - 13.7 billion years of "big history" - in a way that would be impossible in a static timeline. Still in its early stages at present, the site is limited to timelines and exhibits, but as geologist Walter Alvarez explains in the introductory video, further content will be developed in the future. Given the project’s ambitions, it is unsurprising that navigating the site can prove initially somewhat disorienting, but patient users will be rewarded with a powerful sense of the true scale of time over cosmic, geological, biological and social periods.
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- http://www.iop.org/resources/videos/index.html
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- Science and Technology
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- General Science, Physics
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- Streaming/Download
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a scientific society which aims to advance physics research, application and education and engages with policy makers and the public to develop awareness and understanding of physics. Its Video and Audio resources page contains a range of material, covering videos aimed at schools, with advice for teachers in primary and secondary education, to lectures (some of which are available to IOP members only), as well as a more light-hearted, yet visually striking, series of experiments collected under the heading Physics Tricks. More seriously, in response to the statistics showing how few girls move from GCSE to A-level physics, the IOP commissioned 3 video profiles of female physicists making a success out of their lives with the aim of encouraging more young women to consider the study of physics as a route into their career of choice.
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- https://documentarystorm.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Art, General Science, History, Literature
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This website aims to gather full-length documentaries from all over the internet and make them available for free viewing and/or downloading. There are currently over 1,600 films on the site, usefully indexed according to broad categories, such as Art, Science, Biography, Psychology, Sports and Gaming etc. which are further sub-divided: the History/Archaeology includes the categories Excavation, Middle Ages, Renaissance for example. The content is wide-ranging, the aims of the site broadly educational and the end result is well worth a look.
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- https://www.twig-world.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Physics
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Researched and created by a team of academics, producers and scientists, this award-winning site is a resource aimed at teachers at KS2, KS3 and GCSE, and features 600 three-minute films on science, divided into the categories of Physics, Biology, Earth Science and Chemistry. The films are also categorised into Core Films - which highlight the key curriculum learning points of a topic - and Context Films which encourage cross-curricular learning.
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- https://www.futurity.org/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computing, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geography, Geology, Nature, Physics, Technology
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This website brings together news of the latest science research from universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the USA. There are four main categories: Earth and the Environment; Health & Medicine; Science & Technology and Society & Culture. Most of the news consists of articles illustrated with still photographs but some moving imagery is used, as in this article which looks at how quickly can glaciers grow (and melt)?, using a study of the prehistoric activity of Baffin Island’s glaciers with a view to developing accurate models to predict how climate change in the future will affect glaciers and ice sheets.
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- https://www.nsf.gov/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Technology
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The NSF is an American Federal Agency which funds research across a wide range of scientific areas, from astronomy to geology to zoology, with the exception of medical science. A particular aim is to fund cutting-edge research: projects and collaborations which may "seem like science fiction today" but tomorrow will be accepted as part of the fabric of everyday life. Their nanoscience page reflects this commitment to pushing back the frontiers of scientific research. The Multimedia Gallery features stills, podcasts, film and video across all fields of science and engineering, again, with an emphasis on current research and development, coupled with an awareness of the foundation’s educational mission.
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- http://scienceandfilm.org/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Film Studies, General Science
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Site supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation which is dedicated to ‘exploring the intersection of science and film’. The core of the site is a collection of short science-themed film dramas. There is also a selection of writings on the representation of science and scientists in films and a small selection of filmed interviews with filmmakers, including this discussion with Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel about Science and Fantasy in ‘The Fountain’.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, General Science, Physics
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Popular science channel hosted by Youtube in which presenter Destin ‘explores the world through science’, combining a chatty presentational style with a serious look at the science behind various everyday phenomena. A recent example looks at the physics of why falling cats always land on their feet. Other videos use high-speed cameras to analyse the behaviour of viscous liquids, the eyesight of birds of prey and the aerodynamics of a hummingbird’s flight.
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- https://meaningoflife.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, General Science, Religious Studies
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Despite the jokey tagline - ‘Cosmic thinkers on camera’- and a somewhat playful presentation, this website, the brainchild of journalist, scholar and science writer Robert Wright, presents a series of stimulating video interviews and discussions with leading theologians, scientists, psychologists, mathematicians and philosophers who grapple with the fundamental questions of human consciousness, God and the universe. The debates on the website form a sort of ongoing colloquy with speakers arguing from positions of rationalism, atheism, mysticism etc. This interview with Daniel Dennett on quantum weirdness , free will and determinism, is a good example of how the site likes to look at the tenets of various scientific disciplines from a philosophical angle. Some of the subject headings also give an idea of the approach: Science and Religion; Faith and Reason; The Problem of Evil; Limits of Science. Other interviewees include Steven Pinker, Karen Armstrong, Francis Fukuyama, John Maynard Smith and Freeman Dyson.
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