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- https://www.sciencefriday.com/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, General Science, Genetics, Nature, Physics, Psychiatry, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Also known as Sci Fri, this popular American science podcast and radio programme has covered all aspects of science since 1991. One of the first US radio science talk shows, the programme has over the years featured such names as Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle and Oliver Sacks and has a reputation for groundbreaking and original science reporting. According to the site, the show’s founder and executive producer Ira Flatow was the first person to use the word ‘podcast’ on the airwaves. Archives go back as far as 2004 but there is also a substantial amount of video content. A section of the attractively laid out website features a range of educational resources, mainly aimed at primary and secondary school level.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0380wf8/episodes/downloads
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Botany, General Science, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC Radio 4 seven-part series on the history of science in Britain from the Restoration to the present day presented by Lisa Jardine.
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- https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=nature-podcast
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Agriculture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Nature, Physics, Technology
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts. Each week ‘Nature’ publishes a free podcast hosted by Kerri Smith, with reporters Noah Baker, Ewen Callaway, Lizzie Gibney, Geoff Marsh and Charlotte Stoddart. Every show features highlighted content from the current edition of the journal including interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world. Topics covered include a simulation which will help scientists discover how the moon was formed and how blind rats have a magnetic sixth sense.
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- https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive
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- Biology, Botany
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- Film/Video
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Providing a range of free resources for science education, this site, which is maintained by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a good source for short films, animations, virtual labs, interactive tutorials, podcasts and other multimedia resources to aid in the teaching of the biological sciences. Users can narrow their searches by topic and resource type, choosing from Lectures, Series, Video Clips, 3D Printing, Interviews etc. on subject arranged into categories which include Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, DNA, Genetics, Immunology, Palaeontology and Viruses.
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- https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, General Science, Genetics, Nature, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This awarding-winning science podcast is produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and presents the latest discoveries in the physical and natural sciences. The programme also examines the political, social, environmental and ethical implications of new developments in science and technology. Listeners can play or download each podcast in its entirety, or segment by segment, and there are links to related articles, news stories and interviews. Each episode is about an hour long, and generally features around five separate items.
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- http://www.palaeocast.com/
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- Biology, Botany, Geology
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This excellent series of free podcasts explores all aspects of fossils and the evolution of life on earth. Each podcast is around an hour long and features contributions from specialists and academics, who discuss a particular aspect of palaeontology, from mass extinctions to the The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Each episode is extensively illustrated with still images, charts, maps and diagrams. Users can search for topics by keyword or narrow their search by geological period.
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- https://www.chlorofilms.org/index.php
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Botany, Environmental Studies, Nature
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This site aims to promote the creation of innovative video content about plant life and make the best of these films accessible and easy to view on a single website. The site began in 2008 as a competition, with funding and support from three plant biology organisations and Penn State University’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment. The films are divided into two broad categories: General videos are intended for a broad audience, while films in the Technical category are for classroom or research use and are aimed at viewers with some academic background in plant sciences. Although the site appears not to have been updated since 2010, most of the videos are still available.
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- http://www.culturesofknowledge.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Botany, General Science, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This website is the result of a collaboration between the Humanities Division and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The project aims, through an interdisciplinary approach, to analyse and explore the fertile and complex period in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, when early modern science began to take shape, and it aims to do this by focusing on the networks of learned correspondence from the period. In this way the project hopes to provide a unified way of approaching a subject which would otherwise - given the variety of its disciplines, professions, institutions and settings - be extremely daunting. One outcome of the project is a union catalogue - Early Modern Letters Online. A number of podcasts and videos document the proceedings of workshops and conferences, software demonstrations, and introductions to tools and resources for the digital representation of correspondence.
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- https://eol.org/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Botany, Nature
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- Blogs, Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Website with the ambitious aim of gathering together information on all 1.9 million species currently known to science. The site is constructed on the basis one page per species, with biological classification, in expandable taxonomic ranks, displaying alongside images, video, text and bibliographic references. There are a number of resources aimed at helping users navigate such a large amount of information, from explanatory articles - on topics like biodiversity and species classification - links to podcasts, informational videos and Google Earth tours . The site is aimed at enthusiasts, students, teachers and scientist alike.
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- http://www.weedtowonder.org/
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- Science and Technology
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- Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Genetics
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This e-book uses text, images, maps, animations, interviews and time-lapse video to tell the story of how a common weed - teosinte - was transformed into maize via domestication and cross-breeding and traces the crop’s history from ancient Mexico up to the present day, covering everything from genome sequencing and transposons to genetic modification and biofortification of modern maize, culminating in the Maize Genome Sequencing Project in 2009. Also available via iTunes.
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