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- https://www.sciencefriday.com/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, General Science, Genetics, Nature, Physics, Psychiatry, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Also known as Sci Fri, this popular American science podcast and radio programme has covered all aspects of science since 1991. One of the first US radio science talk shows, the programme has over the years featured such names as Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle and Oliver Sacks and has a reputation for groundbreaking and original science reporting. According to the site, the show’s founder and executive producer Ira Flatow was the first person to use the word ‘podcast’ on the airwaves. Archives go back as far as 2004 but there is also a substantial amount of video content. A section of the attractively laid out website features a range of educational resources, mainly aimed at primary and secondary school level.
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- http://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/main/portal.jsp?mainNaviState=aktuell.start
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This site is home to a wide range of resources about mechanical engineering, including a collection of interactive animations and thousands of videos depicting mechanisms in motion. The site also features a thesaurus, a collection of images and biographies of significant people in the domain of mechanical engineering from 1500 to the present day.
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- https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Medicine, Physics
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This site posts one sentence ‘Tweetable’ summaries of recent scientific research which is relevant in some way to everyday life. The podcast, which began in September 2015, consists of hour long discussions about the research, aiming to explore the summaries in more depth. Each podcast is about an hour long and consists of a rotating panel of experts. Attractively laid out and easy to navigate, users can explore a range of broad subject headings including Health, Nutrition, Creativity, Persuasion, Productivity and Sleep. Users can click through the summary to find the original research (or a detailed summary thereof) as presented in the relevant scientific journal. Scholarly, yet accessible, this resource has potential appeal and use to a general listenership as well as science students, researchers and postgraduates.
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- http://www.worldscienceu.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Chemistry, General Science, Mathematics, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
A range of resources from brief videos to classes and courses, presented in an engaging, dynamic format. The Science Unplugged page features hundred of short videos in which scientists give brief summaries of scientific theories, or answers to questions, such as ‘What is mathematics?', ‘Does time flow?' and 'What is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle?'.
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- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg/about
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Chemistry, History, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Organisations
A series of engaging, lively videos produced for the Royal Society. The format is simple: in each episode video journalist Brady Haran and Keith Moore, the Royal Society’s Librarian, look at a single object in the society’s collections and discuss its scientific and historical significance. Among the objects uncovered are Captain Cook’s quadrant, the letters of H.G. Wells, a very powerful 18th century magnet and some very expensive 19th century photographs.
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- https://www.kanopystreaming.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, American Studies, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Dance, Design, Economics, Education, Engineering, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, German Studies, History, Information Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- AV services, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
On-demand streaming platform for educational institutions featuring over 26,000 films from leading producers including PBS, BBC, the Criterion Collection, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, but also many other smaller, niche producers. The site offers both a platform from which to stream films as well as providing a video hosting service. A full range of academic subjects is covered and many of the films, programmes and clips are not otherwise available on DVD. The site also features detailed analytics so that librarians can more easily assess how the site is being used by students. Subscription is based on paying only for the films which students and institutions actually watch.
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- https://dublin.sciencegallery.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Art, Biology, Engineering, General Science, Physics, Psychology, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Science Gallery is a public science centre at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Opened in 2008 and housed in Trinity’s Naughton Institute, it holds exhibitions and lectures with a view to science outreach and art-science collaborations. Unlike most science centres, it has no permanent collection, but rather a series of 4-6 temporary exhibitions each year. The Video section of the website hosts video podcasts of recent events including the performance artist ORLAN talking about the future of the human body, and a debate by leading scientists on the ethics of synthetic biology. The podcast section offers a small number of audio podcasts on a wide range of topics including neuroscience, the portrayal of scientists in movies and the relationship between technology, business and art,
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, General Science, Physics
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- Streaming/Download
The site hosts short extracts from Richard Feynman’s BBC science series FUN TO IMAGINE, broadcast in 1983. The clips (between 10 and 12 minutes) show the role of imagination in understanding the cosmos, the psychology of mirrors, why rubber bands stretch and the process of thinking.
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- http://richannel.org/themes/engineering?p=2&
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, General Science, Mathematics, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Organisations, Streaming/Download
The pages of the Ri Channel website which host engineering videos. There are over 70 titles covering topics such as 3D scanning and printing, the design of ring-pulls on cans, nanoscience, and crystal symmetry in mathematics and architecture. There is no keyword search facility but each video is accompanied by a full description and details of the lecturer and venue. The site also prompts you to other videos with a related subject.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2/episodes/downloads
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC Radio 4 series. Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that’s changing our world. Recent topics have included preserving global biodiversity, zero gravity space, new images of Pluto from the New Horizons space probe and artificial intelligence. The content information accompanying each programme is full but only a summary appears as the title; there is no subject searching facility. Episodes are available indefinitely.
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