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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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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
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- 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
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- 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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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.medicdirect.co.uk
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Medicine
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- Film/Video
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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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- http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/index.html
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Food
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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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- http://endorphin.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Photography, Sports Science
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- 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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- http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/derm/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Medicine
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- Film/Video
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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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- http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical
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- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies, Medicine
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- Film/Video
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- 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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- http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu
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- Bio-Medical
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- Botany
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- Film/Video
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- 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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