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  1. Chance Streaming

    Link
    http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/index.html
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    Chance is produced by the Mathematics Department of Dartmouth College, Hanover NH. Its goal is to support its courses which aim ‘to make students more informed, critical readers of current news stories that use probability and statistics.' The Videos and Audios page includes series of lectures given at Dartmouth in 1997, 1998 and 2000, on such themes as ‘Quantifying the Nature-Nurture Debate’, ‘Probability by Surprise’ and ‘The Risk to Civilization from Exterrestrial Objects’. There are some individual lectures, and some audio files, all of which require Real Player.

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  2. Mathematics in Movies Streaming

    Link
    http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Film Studies, Mathematics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    A sizeable, and growing, collection of clips from feature films in which mathematics appears. Compiled by Oliver Knill of the Maths Dept at Harvard University. Available as Flash or Quicktime files. References and links are also given to sites on similar topics.

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  3. University of Warwick Podcasts Streaming

    Link
    https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Business Studies, Economics, Engineering, General Science, Languages, Mathematics, Medicine, Religious Studies, Social Welfare, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Podcasts of video recordings of lectures and events held at the University of Warwick, organised under the headings of Business & Economics, Culture, Engineering & Technology, History, Languages, Medicine, Sciences & Mathematics, and Society.

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  4. School of Nursing Educational Technology Group (SONET) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nmp/sonet/rlos/rlolist.php
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Genetics, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources

    Several dozen Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) made for staff and students at the University of Nottingham, lasting between 15 and 30 minutes, can be accessed here. Topics can be searched by a detailed list and include: Anatomy, Genetics, Maths, Midwifery, Pharmacology, Philosophy, Veterinary Science. Although the site states that it has not been updated since 2008 items are in fact still being added. Although spartan in appearance it remains an easy-to-use and fascinating resource. Requires Flash.

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  5. Scientific American Frontiers (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.pbs.org/saf/
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Physics, Psychology, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

    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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  6. Clay Mathematics Streaming

    Link
    http://www.claymath.org/
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The Clay Mathematics Institute supports the study of mathematics and also distributes a number of programmes on video tape. Extracts can be viewed at this site using Real, as well as some hour long lectures which are streamed in their entirety and presented rather better than the usual back of a hall, single camera technique one is used to.

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  7. Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Streaming

    Link
    http://www.pims.math.ca/resources/multimedia
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Organisations, Streaming/Download

    This site includes a large number of audio and video lectures available either as MP3 files or on video requiring Real Player. The topics covered range across a very wide spectrum, from Cascade Topology, String Theory and Mathematical Biology to seminars on Numeracy and Beyond and Hollywood Perceptions of Mathematics.

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