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Controversy Over BBC's New Weather Mapping System
The video discusses the unexpected public backlash faced by the BBC when introducing a new high resolution weather mapping system called Weatherscape XT. The controversy arose from the initial design flaw which disproportionately focused...
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Challenges and Triumphs: The Return of Space Shuttle Discovery
The video describes the tense and meticulous process of the space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth, highlighting the critical role of weather conditions, pilot precision, and ground support in ensuring a safe landing. Despite...
Wonderscape
The Greenhouse Effect: Unraveling the Impact on Global Climate
This video explores the greenhouse effect and its significant role in global warming. It explains how greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to a rise in global temperatures. The...
Wonderscape
Climate Explained: Understanding Earth's Diverse Weather Patterns
This video demystifies the concept of climate, differentiating it from weather. It explains that while weather is a short-term atmospheric condition, climate represents long-term patterns in a region. The video covers various climate...
Wonderscape
Oceans and Climate: The Crucial Role of Our Planet's Waters
This video delves into the significant impact of oceans on global climate. It explains how oceans, covering 70% of the Earth's surface, absorb and redistribute solar energy, influencing weather patterns and climate zones. The process of...
Wonderscape
Understanding Weather: Insights from a National Park Hike
Explore the dynamic world of weather in this insightful narrative about a hiker's journey through a national park. The video delves into the impact of weather elements like temperature, humidity, clouds, and wind on outdoor activities....
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Record Attempt: The Orange Catamaran's Thrilling Journey Around Britain
In this thrilling video, a team attempts to break the record for the fastest circumnavigation of Britain in a massive racing catamaran. With strong winds and expert weather advice, they set out to beat the previous record set by American...
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The New Queen Mary 2: A Grand Voyage of Luxury and Adventure
The Queen Mary 2 is a massive luxury liner, five times longer than its predecessor, with a weight three times that of the Titanic. It boasts numerous amenities, including 15 restaurants, a theater, a cinema, a casino, an art gallery, and...
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German Gliding Championships: Pilots Test Their Skills in Roit Shura
This video provides a glimpse into the world of gliding, a high-tech sport that involves piloting sailplanes without an engine. It showcases a competition held in East Germantown, where pilots test their skills and aim to qualify for...
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Highlights from the 2003 Moscow International Air Show
The 2003 Moscow International Air Show showcased the aviation prowess of Russia and allowed local companies to close the marketing gap with their Western counterparts. The event attracted global aviation industry leaders and military...
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Monitoring Climate Change and Exploring the Universe
This video discusses the launch of two satellites by the European Space Agency. The first satellite, MSG ONE, is the largest Earth observational satellite ever built and will provide early warnings on climatic and temperature changes...
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The Strange Dancing Plague of 1518 | The Dancing Curse | A Dance To Death?
In 1518 in Strasbourg, (in modern-day France) a woman stepped outside her house into the street and began dancing. She didn't smile, there was no music, and she apparently was unable to stop until she collapsed with weariness. Thus began...
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Feels Like Temperature: What It Really Means and How It's Calculated
Measuring actual temperature consists of recording the air temperature from a thermometer that has been kept inside a Stevenson screen or by using any other appropriate instrument. “Feels like temperature,” on the other hand, is a...
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Getting Settled
Dr. Forrester explains how environmental resources, transportation, and location influence the development of cities and industries.
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Negative and Positive Integers
Mr. Addit explains the concept of positive and negative integers. He plots positive and negative integers on a number line and then uses a Fahrenheit thermometer to show a practical application of positive and negative integers that we...
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Build a DALL-E Image Generator using React, JavaScript, and OpenAI - A Brief Overview of the Next.js File Boilerplate for Our DALL-E Initial Project
This video briefly overviews the Next.js file boilerplate, which will create our initial DALL-E project. We will look at all the files we downloaded, installed, and configured by creating the Next.js app. This clip is from the chapter...
Weatherthings
Kelvin-Helmholtz Wave Clouds
Have you ever seen clouds that look like ocean waves? Sometimes wavy clouds mix in with other clouds and you don’t notice. Other times they stand out, but may not last very long. Clouds that look like waves on the ocean have a name of...
Weatherthings
Lightning vs Rolling Shutter
If you've ever seen a video or photo of lightning that has a pillar of light seemingly beaming upward to the sky, or if you've seen an image of lightning where part of the picture is very bright and the other part is not, there's a...
Weatherthings
Haboob
Haboob may sound strange but it's a word for a weather phenomenon, common in the Middle East, that happens around the world wherever conditions are very dry, when wind suddenly lifts sand or dust to dramatically lower the visibility....
Weatherthings
Derecho
A derecho is a large line or band of powerful or severe thunderstorms that creates a wind damage area more than 400 miles long and more than 60 miles wide. The thunderstorms in a derecho produce downbursts and sometimes tornadoes. Winds...
Weatherthings
Circumhorizon Arc
When the sun is high, there’s sometimes a bright band of color in cirrus clouds between the sun and the ground. It’s a circumhorizon or circumhorizontal arc. The arc is a straight segment that looks a little like a rainbow but it forms...
Weatherthings
Forensic Meteorologists
Forensic meteorologists study weather, but instead of predicting weather, they focus on weather in the past. They are like weather history detectives who use weather data and information to try to figure out what the weather conditions...
Rock 'N Learn
TH Digraph Sound Song and Practice
This animated phonics song helps children learn the sounds of the digraph TH in English. A digraph is a combination of two letters representing one sound. Both the soft TH sound (unvoiced sound) and the hard TH sound (voiced sound) are...
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Anemometer
“Anemometer” describes an anemometer and gives an example of how one can be created at home.