MinuteEarth
These tiny shells know how much ice there is on Earth
Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron:...
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Ocean Confetti!
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Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates...
Curated Video
TESS Finds Related Stars Have Young Exoplanets
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting a pair of related young stars called TOI 2076...
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The most feared song in jazz, explained
Making sense of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps." Follow Vox Earworm on Facebook for more: http://www.facebook.com/VoxEarworm And be sure to check out Earworm's complete first season here: http://bit.ly/2QCwhMH John Coltrane, one of jazz...
The British Museum
A sitar performance by Anoushka Shankar
One of Ravi Shankar’s sitars was donated to the British Museum and is now on display in the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia. In this video, Shankar’s daughter Anoushka Shankar plays extracts from two compositions on the...
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Exploring Our Solar System with Dr. Amy Simon
Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and she eventually found...
Gresham College
The Joy of Six: Brahms and Strauss - Professor Christopher Hogwood
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio Brahms: String Sextet Op.18 Professor Christopher Hogwood, Gresham Professor of Music, with players from the Royal Academy of Music The choice of instrumental grouping can make or break a composition; the...
Sydney Opera House
Empowering musicians on the autistic spectrum at the Opera House | Club Weld
In a first-of-its-kind project, Rainbow Chan, George Nicholas (Seekae) and Eugene Ward (Dro Carey/Tuff Sherm) collaborated with musicians on the autism spectrum from and with other disabilities to make their own music in the Sydney Opera...
12tone
Understanding Dream On
Dream On is a startlingly mature piece of music in both theme and composition. It was one of the earliest power ballads, and to my mind, it remains one of the best. It avoids a lot of the cornier elements that plagued many of its...
12tone
The Mother Chord
It's Mother's Day, which means it's time to take a look at music's own tribute to maternity, the Mother Chord! Ok, it's not actually very mother-y, but it's still pretty cool: It's the solution to an important math puzzle in music's...
Gresham College
Mozart's Rebellious Oboe: Christopher Hogwood explains why Mozart's Oboe Quartet is so daring
Christopher Hogwood explains one of the most extreme examples of Mozart's compositions "doing what they are not supposed to" Mozart is renowned for writing "multiple characterisations" in his music, whether for voices in his operas or...
Gresham College
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Middle, 1945-1970 - Dr Paul Kildea
The success of Peter Grimes caught Britten by surprise. It gave him enormous capital, but for the most part he chose to spend it outside London, away from the emerging music institutions the new Labour government was determined would...
Curated Video
Allegro
Meet Allegro, a young boy who can’t stand practicing the piano. It’s hard and frustrating and he is ready to give up—until the music itself suddenly whisks him away on a magical adventure!Classical music comes to life like never before...
12tone
How To Write A Song Without Playing A Single Note
There are lots of different ways to write music, but perhaps one of the strangest is Total Serialism. This technique eschews artistic license entirely, building an entire composition from a set of strict, unbending rules. What sort of...
Curated Video
NASA's NICER Tracks a Magnetar's Hot Spots
For the first time, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on the surface of a magnetar, a supermagnetized stellar core no larger than a city. NICER tracked...
Curated Video
Peru Orphanage Update 2017 - Smarter Every Day 183
STEP 1. VOTE -- (No longer needed, P4A has ended) STEP 2. Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/notforgotten If you think this is a worthy cause, please consider supporting. It's working. http://www.instagram.com/not_forgotten ⇊ More info!...
The Guardian
Take Back the City: London's political startup calls for change | Anywhere but Westminster
From impromptu debates on buses to poetry recitals in corner shops, the grassroots campaign Take Back the City is taking politics to the streets of London, disillusioned with mainstream parties. Subscribe to The Guardian ►...
12tone
The Most Unwanted Song
There's lots of ways to work out what makes a song popular, and music theorists use many different techniques to analyze and understand compositions, but how about just asking people what they like? Well, that's exactly what a couple...
12tone
Understanding Aqualung
We're back, and we're looking at one of my favorite songs off probably my favorite album of all time! Jethro Tull's biggest hit features incredibly complex musical ideas that it hides behind a veil of folky charm, telling a dark and...
Free School
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, arrangement by Rimsky-Korsakov: FreeSchool Radio
Night on Bald Mountain (composed in 1886) is a famous piece of classical music by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Unfortunately for him, his composition was never performed during his lifetime and even now is rarely played as he...
Free School
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner - FreeSchool Radio
Ride of the Valkyries is music from the beginning of Act 3 of Die Walküre, an opera by Richard Wagner. Wagner was a German composer and director who lived from 1813-1883. Ride of the Valkyries is one of his most famous and recognizable...
Free School
Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák (Scherzo: Molto vivace) - FreeSchool Radio
Symphony No. 9 is the most popular composition by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. Neil Armstrong took a recording of the New World...
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Thousands of Ancient Super Eruptions on Mars, Scientists Confirm
By studying the topography and mineral composition of a portion of the Arabia Terra region in northern Mars, scientists recently found evidence for thousands of “super eruptions,” which are the most violent volcanic explosions known....