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[Crumb]

I debated which forum to put this thread in but I decided on this one since most of the videos should be about science and technology topics.

This is the thread for longer interesting educational net videos and audio files. I got the idea in this thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13727), which featured the below video about economics of crack.

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Here is a link to a bunch of James Burke YouTube videos. (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13157)

Here is a Google video on a nifty way to harness human computation (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143&q=Techtalk&subtitle=on&pr=goog-sl&hl=en).

Here is a Skepticality radio show where Dr Zimbardo is interviewed by Michael Shermer (http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticality/049_skepticality.mp3).

If you find any interesting educational video or audio files please post links here! :yup:

[Crumb]

Just to give you something new. Here is something I am listening to now.

Richard Dawkins on the strangeness of science

[ceptimus]

Professor Eric Laithwaite's 1974 Christmas lecture on gyroscopes. (http://www.gyroscopes.org/1974lecture.asp)

I don't think it's on utube or google, but worth watching anyway.

[Crumb]

:thankee:

Any format that I can view is acceptable. :wink:

[viscousmemories]

This is a great idea, Crumb. :tiphat:

[Crumb]

Here's a short video about using computer modeling in science.

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[But]

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[viscousmemories]

Is that really what Mormons believe?

[Dingfod]

Is that really what Mormons believe?That, and more.

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How Juries are fooled by statisics (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8676144440234129752)

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Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2443934711053674980)

These TEDTalks are full of interesting tidbits. :yup:

[But]

"cause if we just told them, we can kick anybody's asses, they wouldn't buy us all the stuff we want. So we say 'area denial anti-access asymmetrical strategies' and their eyes glaze over, and they say 'will you build it in my district?' "

:chuckle:

[Crumb]

:pleased:

Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2910575059115387235)

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~50 minute BBC show on evolution/creation issues in US (in five parts)

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[Dragar]

Great thread. I really liked the human computation talk; it's a simple idea that has profound implications and that are only really just being realised.

[trientalis]

This is a general recommendation for all fans of "The Secret Life of Machines" to check out YouTube's holdings (searching on the show title or Tim Hunkin brings up a fair number of videos).

Here's a taste to get started (8-9 minutes):The Secret Life of the Radio Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehVVpY6XE4)

[ceptimus]

This is a general recommendation for all fans of "The Secret Life of Machines" to check out YouTube's holdings (searching on the show title or Tim Hunkin brings up a fair number of videos).

Here's a taste to get started (8-9 minutes):The Secret Life of the Radio Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehVVpY6XE4)

:yup: Also on Google video. See this thread for links. (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11418) (ETA: On second thoughts, don't bother with that thread - the embeded google vids seem to be broken now. :( ) But do please watch "The Secret Life of Machines" in whatever format you can.

[Stormlight]

I posted this earlier in the non-music video thread. Ensign Steve pointed out that this should have been posted here ... so here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzRdZGYNvA

[Crumb]

Thanks Storm and ES. They did a good job with that. :pleased:

[viscousmemories]

Yeah that's really cool. I remember learning about the double-slit experiment here (from Dragar (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1874)) but I didn't remember that electrons appear to behave differently when observed. That's weird stuff.

[Crumb]

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There are a lot of interesting skeptic videos by Michael Shermer on YouTube. :yup:

[ShottleBop]

You better do it the octopus way! (http://www.videosift.com/video/You-better-do-it-the-octopus-way)

[ceptimus]

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[Crumb]

Michael Shermer @ TED (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/22)

[Crumb]

Some more from TED talks. This time with Steven Pinker.

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Video Steven Pinker on language and thought - ted, tedtalks - Dailymotion Share Your Videos (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30vo4_steven-pinker-on-language-and-thoug_people)

[Crumb]

I could watch these TED talks all day. :yup:

Here's Barry Schwartz:

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[viscousmemories]

Apparently you have been! :giggle:

[Crumb]

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[Stormlight]

Let's revive this great thread. Michio Kaku on String Theory:

YouTube - Michio Kaku on String Theory 1

[Crumb]

All the mind of god stuff is kinda silly though.

[Ensign Steve]

Are there more parts to that series? It was an okay intro, but it was a little short on actual string theory.

[mickthinks]

It's the first of 3 parts. The title bar of the embedded window is a link. It'll take you to a page where you can find the second and third parts. Mind you, they are all a little short on actual string theory.
:violin:

Mick

[Crumb]

Yeah I watched all the parts and they are more of an intro to something that doesn't seem to be there.

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The Virtual World of Second Life

[Ohm]

What a great alternative, better than Bashing theists on every freaking thread thanks.

[Crumb]

YouTube - Authors@Google: Phillip Zimbardo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUyDznt5V4I&eurl=http://markii.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/the-lucifer-effect/)

[Crumb]

I thought it was supposed to embed the video automatically. :chin:

[ceptimus]

It does if you just post the URL without any formatting. When I quoted your post it had a badly formatted quote mark, but maybe that was the result of glitchy auto-formatting? Let me try:

YouTube - Authors@Google: Phillip Zimbardo

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YouTube - TEDTalks: Malcom Gladwell (2004)

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YouTube - Neil Turok: 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein

[ceptimus]

I liked the Malcom Gladwell one :thankee:

Here's a brief clip on why small windmills don't work.

YouTube - Tim Hunkin talks about wind power

[mickthinks]

Dennet on Consciousness. This is the first of 6 parts. (The title bar of the embedded window is a link. It'll take you to a page where you can find the second and subsequent parts.) He makes a good job of the tricky task of explaining why consciousness is 'a problem', and I like the metaphor of the conjuring trick that he uses later.

YouTube - Prof. Daniel Dennett: Consciousness

[naturalist.atheist]

The TED videos are awesome.

Some other video science sites that people may find of interest:

The Vega Science Trust (http://vega.org.uk/)

There are lectures by Feynman and other Nobel Prize winners on all sorts of subjects.

There is MIT open courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

There is this:

http://www.rootv.com/?channel=Science&clipid=92618

And these are not videos, audio only but if you are interested in neuroscience you might like these:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

[Crumb]

YouTube - Clay Shirky on New Book "Here Comes Everybody"

[mickthinks]

Wow - that is a revelation! The internet can indeed be "serious business" with a good idea and a bit of imagination. Remind me, who was it said "there's no justice or injustice, just text"? Why would anyone want to scoff away the idea that we, you and me, here and now, might be able to get together and start making our world a bit better?

Thanks Crumb!

[Crumb]

I've become a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson.

YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson on "Intelligent Design" at Beyond Belief

[robspruce]

Thanks for posting these great videos, I can spend hours watching them! (and I probably have)

Funny this thread is called EduTube, there's a real EduTube website where you can post videos such as these:
EduTube Educational Videos (http://www.edutube.org)

and I did find some of them there (through http://edutube.org/search_video)

[Crumb]

Cool, robspruce. Thanks for the link.

... and here I thought I'd coined the term. :darn

Oh and Welcome to the :ff:! :wave:

[Crumb]

Found this there:

YouTube - Dolphin play bubble rings

[mickthinks]

Wow - that is beautiful!

[robspruce]

Thanks for the welcome Crumb!

Here's an interesting one from TedTalks I just found on edutube

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures - EduTube Educational Videos (http://edutube.org/en/video/theo-jansen-the-art-creating-creatures)

YouTube - Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

[viscousmemories]

:welcome: to the :ff:, robspruce.

[Crumb]

A little off the topic...

YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

[Seven of Nine]

YouTube - Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

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YouTube - First Moon Landing, One Shot, 1969, Apollo 11

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YouTube - Ants!

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Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way - EduTube Educational Videos (http://edutube.org/en/video/illegal-drugs-how-they-got-that-way)

[Stormlight]

Death by black hole (http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole)

[Chris Porter]

Apparently this hasn't yet come up here, so I'd like to introduce the Periodic Table of Elements (http://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos) video set. It's by Nottingham U in England, and gives some basic and interesting information about elements. I really recommend this, especially the Sodium one, if you like explosions.

The Sulfur and Borax are good. They give tidbits like what it is used for, present and past, what it looks like, it's atomic info, and what group it's in on the table. Plus demonstrations of what it can do.

[ceptimus]

The wooden periodic table (http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/)

[Crumb]

That fora.tv is a cool site. Here is an interesting one I found there.

FORA.tv - Gary Marcus on the Construction of the Human Mind (http://fora.tv/2008/04/23/The_Haphazard_Construction_of_the_Human_Mind)

[Crumb]

Feature length documentaries streamed online for free. I haven't watched any yet, but it looks cool.

Home - SnagFilms (http://snagfilms.com/)

[trientalis]

This may stretch the guidelines a bit as the subject of these clips is music, or more to the point, how rhythm works. But Howard Goodall is such a delightful teacher that I hope you all will forgive the shift in topic. In any case, I found them educational and enjoyable and hope you will too.

How Music Works, Rhythm Part 1

How Music Works, Rhythm Part 2

How Music Works, Rhythm Part 3

[Crumb]

This is a long one, but interesting.

YouTube - Year of Darwin - Neil Shubin, Ph.D.

[mickthinks]

Hans Rosling's TED talk. It's about world health and development - no, it's about new statistics graphing tools - or is it about letting information run free on the innernut? Whatever, it's fun to watch.

YouTube - Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

[Crumb]

I think I may have seen that one already. If so, it was very good. I can't watch it at work now because my sounds doesn't seem to be working. :(