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- https://theconversation.com/uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Medicine, Nature, Politics and Government, Sports Science, Technology
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- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
An independent news website sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. The Conversation launched in Australia in March 2011 and in the UK in May 2013. It is a not for profit educational entity, funded by universities, that aims to rebuild trust in journalism by providing independent, high quality and authenticated information. The articles, written by academics and researchers with some help from professional journalists, are organised by subject areas like in any online version of a broadsheet newspaper: Arts & Culture, Business & Economy, Education, Environment & Energy, Science & Technology, etc. Interestingly, each article displays a disclosure statement indicating the author’s funding and any potential conflict of interest. The Fact Check UK section includes the statement being checked (e.g. ‘Is freezing eggs really ‘extremely unsuccessful’?), the link to its original source, a Verdict and a Review by an academic who gives his/her opinion on whether and why the author of the statement is right or wrong.
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- https://theconversation.com/uk/podcasts/the-anthill
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- General Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Anthill is The Conversation UK’s podcast service devoted to bring to light some of the best research from the world of academia. Each episode, which lasts around 45 minutes, focuses on a theme and invites academics from different disciplines to share their expertise on it. Themes explored so far include Time, Humour, The Future, Memory, Unexplored places, Games and Dark matter. The podcasts, co-hosted by two experienced content editors from The Conversation, are recorded in the studios of the Department of Journalism at City University London, and have the bonus of sounding like high quality radio programmes.
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- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoEBu2Q8ia_OwPszaJFmkI1SFVj5d5oB7
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- General Science, Medicine, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
A project sponsored by Cambridge University and The Wellcome Trust that gives researchers the opportunity to work with filmmakers and artists to make short documentaries about their work. The resulting 13 films are accessible and engaging. Titles in the series include Rise of the Machines with two shorts: Pain in the Machine, which looks at the possibilities and challenges of creating a robot that feels pain,and Friend in the Machine, which considers relationships with robots, Morphogenesis, Dish life and DNA Origami: folding on the smallest scale.
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- http://theengineeringcommons.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Engineering, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Entertaining and informative engineering podcast from the USA, with practical advice for engineers. Maintains a balance between industry and academia and follows a magazine format.
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- https://journal.beoplay.com/journal/sound-matters
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Media Studies, Music, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- 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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- https://aeon.co/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Astronomy, Biology, General Science, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- 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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- https://images.nasa.gov/#/
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, General Science, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- 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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- http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/bbc1-19790720/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Computing, Media Studies, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site is dedicated to the preservation, celebration and analysis of Teletext, the television information service introduced to British television in 1974 and familiar to UK viewers as Ceefax on the BBC and Oracle on ITV. Featuring a podcast, articles, archived pages from the service, and even an application that allows you to create your own Teletext page, the site is a labour of love, the pinnacle of which is a teletext time machine: a fully interactive Ceefax service for the 20th July 1979.
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- http://www.cityofphysics.com/podcasts.html
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- Science and Technology
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- Astronomy, General Science, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
This podcast was created to accompany a month-long educational project held in Dublin during 2015. The project was created by Dr Shane Bergin (School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (School Of Mathematics & Statistics, University College Dublin) and aimed to make physics part of Dubliners’ everyday conversation by putting notices, posters and projections on public transport, the sides of buildings etc. in order to spark people’s interest and curiosity. In the podcasts, the City of Physics team introduce a variety of highly-regarded scientists to talk about their inspirations and ideas, covering subject such as how physics fits in with the other sciences, and how to talk and communicate about science to a general audience.
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- http://pica-pic.com/#
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Technology
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- Streaming/Download
This site uses Adobe Flash to recreate over twenty handheld LCD video games, which are fully playable and include classics of the genre like Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong Jr. and Zelda, as well as more obscure examples like Casio’s Castle Adventure and Russian company Electronika’s Merry Cook.
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