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Life: The role of the state to impact morality
This video is out of a series of short videos starting with “How to Live a Meaningful Life” up to “Reflects on Goodness” all of them interviews by the great BigThink web site with U.C. Berkeley social psychologist Dacher Keltner.
If you interested in Professor Keltner’s work and that of his colleagues at the…
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Data-Visualization: The Known Universe by AMNH
…The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History…
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Video: The Sky in Motion
An outstanding time-lapsed video of the sky, the sun, moon and the stars.
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Science: Yoshimoto Cube
A video with a little puzzle to start the new year.
The Yoshimoto Cube - a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from one cube.
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National Geographic: How to make Zero G Idents
The spots shown at the beginning of this video might not be so spectacular, but watch how those have been made later in this clip.
Amazing.
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Video: Levitating Water
Amazing how you can fool the eye with a strobe light and some streams of water.
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Space: Animated Aurora from Orbit
Astronaut Don Pettit created an astounding video using a sequence of still images he shot of the aurora borealis from the International Space Station.
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Science: A Fish-Like Airship
A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.
Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.
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Humor: The 18th Ig Nobel Prizes awarded
It’s early October again and for some that means the highlight of the scientific calendar have just happened and for others that some at Harvard have again celebrated the silliest science around the globe.
What we are talking about are the 18th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Awards that took place this Thursday at Sanders Theater, Harvard University and informal lectures by the prize winners this afternoon at the MIT Building.
The annual prizes are awarded for…
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Science: Water on Mars
No this is not a continuation of or “April’s Fools post”, Nasa today “officially released” information that they found water on Mars.
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