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Three series of podcasts: ‘Science Talk’ is a weekly audio report by Steve Mirsky discussing the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists. The service began in February 2006 and is available by podcast or online download. ‘60-Second Science’ is a daily, one-minute report or commentary on a topic of scientific interest. ‘60-Second Psych’ is a weekly, one-minute commentary on the latest studies in neuroscience and behaviour, which is issued each Thursday.
The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries. The site offers free teaching resources and classroom activities for students aged 11-19 years including lesson plans, handouts and film clips. To gain access to the downloadable-free content you need to register, and to access all the resources which include video clips you need to filter by ‘video’. The content can also be searched by subject, exam board, key stage and age range. Subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Maths, Physics and D&T.
Rob Salgado of Syracuse University in the USA has attempted to visualise the vector fields (actually differential forms) of electromagnetism. To view the animation, it is necessary to use a VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) enabled browser. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 28/08/2011. This does not include access to the moving images.
The large number of brief movies contained here appear under seven main headings: Tension and Acceleration, Gravity and Air Resistance, Projectile Motion, Waves, Momentum, Sonar Demonstration and Vibrations. Accompanying these are video data diagrams also in Flash. The materials are free to use for non-commercial applications.
Nanotechnology is the study and design of systems at the nanometer scale - the scale of atoms and molecules. This site, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, includes a variety of short films to explore the issues involved, which are divided into basic, intermediate and advanced categories, with extremely good encoding. The various experiments conducted include explorations of DNA, LCDs, Silicon, thermoelectricity, atomic imaging, catalytic converters and even make use of Lego building blocks.
Part of the Internet Archive, which also covers archived moving images (The Internet Moving Images Archive), audio and software, the Wayback Machine holds cached versions of thousands of websites and billions of pages, allowing users to look at sites that are no longer available or at earlier versions of ones that are still around. An invaluable resource that, due to the gigantic nature of the holdings, is slightly hampered by the fact that no list of the holdings can be easily provided. This means inevitably that correct recall of the URL in question is necessary, or failing that, searching for it on the web first.
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