Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...

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Anyone else exhausted by all this nostalgia?

Encircled observations - use ggplot and ggalt to create great plots and data visualization.

In which Hank discusses the situation in Syria as deeply and completely as he can in five minutes. Negotiations are ongoing as to whether and how chemical weapons will be removed from Syria. This is an opportunity for the global...

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This clip is from the chapter "Data Frames" of the series "R Programming for Statistics and Data Science".This section explains data frames.

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This clip is from the chapter "JavaScript 201 - Getting Started" of the series "Learn JavaScript from Scratch: JavaScript for Everyone".This section dives deeper into...

In this video, you'll learn to work with the fetch API to handle ajax requests.
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This clip is from the chapter "Professional JavaScript" of the series "Learn JavaScript from Scratch: JavaScript for Everyone".In this section,...

R programming is easy. In this video, I'll walk you though how to clean your data; how to manipulate (or wrangle) your data; how to summarize your data; how to create tables and describe your data; how to visualize your data using ggplot...

Jediism came to prominence in 2001 during the UK census when a bunch of people claimed to be "Jedi" as their religion. But there also is a real-world movement of people calling themselves Jediists, followers of Jediism. How should...

AH, MY HAND! Luke Skywalker lost his hand a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away - but here in our own galaxy, how close are we to creating the advanced neuroprosthetics we see in Star Wars? On this episode of Neuro Transmissions,...

National parks have fueled the imagination of filmmakers for decades. With the National Park Service centennial in 2016, park ranger and cinema buff Chris Hendrix encourages you to Find Your Park CREDIT: NPS

Listen to Chief Scientist Jim Green and a co-investigator on the Kepler and TESS missions, Jon Jenkins, discuss exoplanet-hunting and all the amazing discoveries Kepler has made.

Welcome to Mr. Henry's melodic listening exercises! Learn how to identify intervals through listening and even take the melodic challenge to exercise your ears.

A team of British scientists has successfully created a tractor beam, that used sound to levitate objects without contact. The technology was co-developed by scientists at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol, and a company called...

You probably have heard about the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. They introduce famous characters like the apostles Peter and John. But they also introduce not-so-famous characters that only show up for one chapter or...

Creating bar charts or bar graphs is easy using ggplot. R programming provides a number of alternatives for data visualisation. Ggplot or ggpot2 is, in my opinion, the best way to visualise your data and create plots and graphs during...

In this episode streamed on August 29, 2019, we talk about how we design and build robots to work with humans in space.

We’ve launched a live video show on Twitch called NASA in Silicon Valley Live! This is an audio-only version of our premiere episode that streamed on Jan. 12. In it, we talk about going back to the Moon with NASA rock stars Jim Green and...

These aren't the droids you're looking for. But it is the video you're looking for! Jedi mind tricks are one of the most interesting incarnations of the Force. They seem almost magical. However, in this video, we see that Jedi mind...

The Force is strong in the Star Wars universe. But not everyone can use its power. So how does the ordinary, non-Jedi warrior, Chirrut Imwe compensate for his blindness? Turns out, the brain has its own superpowers. In this episode of...

Welcome to Mr. Henry's melodic listening exercises! Learn how to identify intervals through listening and even take the melodic challenge to exercise your ears.

Created by Julian Checkley (UK) and his Order 66 Creatures and Effects studio, a fully mobile costume depicting the Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens character Grummgar stands at approximately 2.69 metres tall. The...

Matt is an animatronics expert, who works on the Star Wars films. In his spare time he builds things like this hexapod robot. He explains some of the challenges he faced in building it. Could be used to prompt a session on creating mini...