SciShow Kids
Where Does Wind Come From? | The Science of Flying | SciShow Kids
As Squeaks continues to prep for his big trip with Jessi, Mr. Brown helps him learn all about how the wind outside the fort will also affect how long his airplane ride with Jessi takes!
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Squeak's First Flight! | The Science of Flying | SciShow Kids
Jessi and Anthony have been helping Squeaks learn all about flying before his big airplane ride to the robot museum so he isn’t so nervous! Here’s everything they learned together!
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How Airplanes Fly! | Airplane Science | SciShow Kids
As Squeaks continues to prepare for his big trip on a plane, he and Jessi learn the science behind how airplanes fly!
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How Animals Fly! | The Science of Flight | SciShow Kids
As Squeaks continues to prepare for his big trip with Jessi, Mr. Brown helps him learn all about different kinds of wings and how they help animals and machines fly!
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My First Time Flying on an Airplane! | Airplane Science | SciShow Kids
Jessi and Squeaks are taking a trip soon! But Squeaks has never been on a plane before, and he's a little nervous about it. Let's learn what it's like to go through the airport and to be on an airplane, so we can help squeaks feel a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do airplanes stay in the air? | Raymond Adkins
By 1917, Albert Einstein had explained the relationship between space and time. But, that year, he designed a flawed airplane wing. His attempt was based on an incomplete theory of how flight works. Indeed, insufficient and inaccurate...
PBS
Flying into hurricanes, scientists search for more certainty
How do meteorologists and scientists make predictions about the power and trajectory of a hurricane? Buckle up. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien joins a crew of scientists who fly right into the eye of Hurricane Florence.
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Stephen Ambrose (with George McGovern) (Author Interview) (August 16, 2001)
Book: The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
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18 Years After September 11th, An Oral History That Recalls The Details
For everyone old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, their experience of that catastrophic day is seared into memory. But details of what the victims, survivors and emergency responders endured have faded from national consciousness...
3Blue1Brown
Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about)
Newton's method, and the fractals the ensue
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What DO we know about turbulence?
A look at what turbulence is (in fluid flow), and a result by Kolmogorov regarding the energy cascade of turbulence.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Could we harness the power of a black hole? | Fabio Pacucci
Imagine a distant future when humans reach beyond Earth, forge cities on planets thousands of light-years away, and maintain a galactic web of trade and transport. What would it take to make that leap? And where would we get enough...
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Why 5/3 is a fundamental constant for turbulence
A look at what turbulence is (in fluid flow), and a result by Kolmogorov regarding the energy cascade of turbulence.
Crash Course
White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae
Today Phil follows up last week’s look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects roughly the size of Earth. They also can form planetary nebulae: huge,...
PBS
The Assassin Puzzle
Imagine you have a square-shaped room, and inside there is an assassin and a target. And suppose that any shot that the assassin takes can ricochet off the walls of the room, just like a ball on a billiard table. Is it possible to...
SciShow
What Happens If A Plane Gets Struck By Lightning?
If you're flying on a plane in a thunderstorm, you should be more worried about the wind than the lightning.
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SciShow Talk Show: Crash Course Physics Host Dr. Shini Somara & Sydney the Brush-Tailed Bettong
Dr. Shini Somara joins us on the Talk Show today to talk Crash Course Physics and her background in fluid dynamics and television. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Sydney, their Brush-tailed Bettong.
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Inverse matrices, column space and null space: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 7 of 15
How do you think about the column space and null space of a matrix visually? How do you think about the inverse of a matrix?
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Implicit differentiation, what's going on here? | Chapter 6, Essence of calculus
How to think about implicit differentiation in terms of functions with multiple inputs, and tiny nudges to those inputs.
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Why Don't Birds Have Vertical Tails Like Airplanes?
How do you tell a plane from a bird? The vertical tail, of course! By why can birds fly without a vertical tail, and how do planes use their vertical tails to stay in the air?
SciShow
Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer
Mantis shrimp might as well be super heroes, and one of their powers might given us insight on how to spot cancer.
SciShow
Where Are All the Electric Airplanes
Clean, renewable energy is becoming more and more common in our everyday lives. But, as our cars and buildings become more green, tens of thousands of airplanes fly every day using petroleum-based fuel, and there's seemingly no end in...
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e to the pi i, a nontraditional take (old version)
The enigmatic equation e^{pi i} = -1 is usually explained using Taylor's formula during a calculus class. This video offers a different perspective, which involves thinking about numbers as actions, and about e^x as something which turns...