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- Link
- http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Politics and Government, Psychology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Bi-weekly podcast produced by a group called The New York City Skeptics, covering aspects of critical thinking, philosophy, science and ethics, with forays into history, politics and psychology. The podcast features guests from a wide range of academic disciplines. The podcasts are free and are accompanied by full transcripts.
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- Link
- https://player.fm/series/origin-stories
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Monthly podcast from the Leakey Foundation. Broadly about human evolution the programme covers anthropology, human origins, primatology and biology.
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- Link
- https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/437264048/about-hidden-brain
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Economics, Psychology, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This podcast looks at everyday human behaviour and uses ideas from the social sciences - economics, psychology and sociology - to explain why people do what they do. The podcast is aimed at a popular audience and is presented by NPR’s science correspondent Shankar Vedantam, whose laudable aim is to help people understand how what they do on a daily basis is based on underlying patterns of human behaviour based on rigorous scientific research.
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- Link
- https://journal.beoplay.com/journal/sound-matters
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Media Studies, Music, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
A podcast which explores the ways in which people listen to sounds, and the inventions, discoveries, possibilities and ideas around sound. Written and produced by Tim Hinman, the content is original and thought-provoking. Covering all aspects of sound, from prehistoric musical instruments, recording wildlife sounds, interstellar noise, soundscape ecology, and the links between music and sport, users can subscribe via Soundcloud and iTunes.
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- Link
- http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site offers support materials, free of charge, to students, lecturers and anyone else looking for help with mathematics post-GCSE. The resources on the site are the work of people who run university mathematics support centres, teach mathematics, and who design new media products for learning. The site also provides resources for those needing to use mathematics to study different disciplines, including bioscience, economics, engineering, business and accountany, art and design, etc. Users can search by Course, Topic or Resource Type. Amongst the resources available are a wide range of videos, which have been helpfully arranged into subject areas.
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- Link
- http://revisionisthistory.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Education, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Podcast in ten episodes presented by Malcolm Gladwell, who, in each programmes, revisits an idea, person or event from history, that has been overlooked, forgotten, or misunderstood. Amongst the subjects explored by Gladwell are the inequalities of the American higher education system, an undercover research project undertaken by the Pentagon in Vietnam and Elizabeth Thompson Butler, a 19th century painter.
Other Record only
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- Link
- https://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Flash/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Series of Flash animations produced by David M. Harrison of the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto. The animations have been sorted by subject (chaos, quantum mechanics, relativity etc.) and are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic licence (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5)
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- https://www.filmpreservation.org/sponsored-films/sponsored-films
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Film Studies, General Science
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This selection of sponsored films is presented by the National Film Preservation Foundation, in partnership with the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive. There are 102 films in total: the selection was made from The Field Guide to Sponsored Films by Rick Prelinger. This annotated filmography singles out 452 sponsored films of particular historical, cultural, and artistic interest from the more than 300,000 thought to have been made in the USA. Most of the films are available to download and are accompanied by detailed synopses and contextual information.
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- Link
- https://aeon.co/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Art, Astronomy, Biology, General Science, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links
Online magazine devoted to the exploration of ideas from the worlds of science, philosophy, society and the arts. There are three main channels: Essays – ‘Longform explorations of deep issues written by serious and creative thinkers’; Ideas – ‘Short provocations, maintaining Aeon’s high editorial standards but in a more nimble and immediate form’; and Video – ‘A mixture of curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions’.
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- Link
- https://images.nasa.gov/#/
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Astronomy, General Science, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Organisations, Streaming/Download
This vast resource makes publicly available 140,000 images, videos and audio files, aggregated from NASA’s agencies across the USA and around the world. The database is fully searchable, indexed by keywords and can be filtered by media type. Each entry also includes the link to its original site. In general most NASA material is not copyrighted and can be freely used for informational or educational purposes. More information on rights and restrictions can be found here.
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