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  1. Engines of Our Ingenuity Streaming

    Link
    http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/engines.htm
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    History, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Streaming/Download

    The Engines of Our Ingenuity is an American radio programme telling the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The programme web site houses the transcripts for every episode heard since the show’s inception in 1988. Streaming audio is available on each of the posted episodes (using Real). The wide range of subjects over nearly 2,000 episodes include Leon Theremin, the number zero, windmills, the camera obscura, mind reading, mousetraps and paperclips, the Lunar Society, and Food in Early Texas.

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  2. MedicDirect Streaming

    Link
    http://www.medicdirect.co.uk
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Biology, Medicine
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    MedicDirect is an interactive website hosted by UK medical consultants to provide health information online. The videos page lists titles of downloadable videos (in both low and high resolution) of seventeen different operations.

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  3. B.F. Skinner Foundation Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bfskinner.org/
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Psychology
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    Site dedicated to psychologist and behavioural scientist B.F. Skinner. The Foundation exists "to educate the public about B.F. Skinner’s work, and to promote an understanding of the role of contingencies in human behavior". The site used to include a 67-minute audio file (using Real Player) of a presentation by Skinner, ‘On Having a Poem’, which discusses verbal behaviour from a behaviour analytic perspective and the criticisms of that position. At present (2009) this is no longer available though small video files are steadily being added.

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  4. Sweet Lure of Chocolate Streaming

    Link
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/index.html
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Food
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    A history of chocolate, demonstrating the processes involved in its production, the science of chocolate, research into the health effects of eating chocolate, and the chemistry behind ‘why chocolate makes us feel so good’. The various sections are illustrated by Real Player video clips of chocolate production and audio clips of scientists. There is also a video tour of the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory, near San Francisco.

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  5. Endorphin Productions Streaming

    Link
    http://endorphin.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Photography, Sports Science
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    This video subscription service offers very high quality QuickTime movies. The very high resolution samples on this site are of quite spectacular quality, but will require at 150mbs of free memory to play or the computer will crash. A few clips are available free, but otherwise a subscription is required. The movies are organised by genre (people, places, music, events etc.).

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  6. Dermatology Image Bank Streaming

    Link
    http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/derm/
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Medicine
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    Classified collection of skin-reklated images for medical students, produced by the Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine. Includes a Procedure Videos section, with videos on Spray Freezing, Punch Biopsy, Hyfrecator Basics, Skin Tag Removal, Incision and Tumour Removal, and other subjects. Requires Real Player. The site was last updated in 2000. For more up-to-date information on this topic check Medline Plusa site under the US Library of Medicine. There are also videos on topics such as anatomy, body systems, and surgical procedures.

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  7. Literature Arts & Medicine Database Streaming

    Link
    http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Art, Film Studies, Media Studies, Medicine
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases

    This functional and easy-to-use site features a bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art in general that relates to Medical Humanities and includes links to some substantial video extracts as well as an alphabetical index to reviews of films which relate to medicine in some way, including such disparate titles as 21 Grams, The Body Snatcher, The English Patient, Ikiru Lorenzo’s Oil and dozens of others. There are also detailed sections devoted to medicine in literature and fine art which combine to produce a fascinating and varied introduction to the way that health and healers have been represented over the centuries.

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  8. Plants in Motion Streaming

    Link
    http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Botany
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    These time-lapse films of flowering plants have been subdivided by specific flower as well as by specific processes like Germination, Tropism, Circadian Responses and others. The movies require QuickTime to be viewed. The site also holds a detailed guide on how to undertake time-lapse photography.

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