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How We Solved the Greatest Riddle In Navigation
Humanity’s drive to explore our planet is one of the defining characteristics of our species. But exploration only works if you know where you are at any given time. Not so easy when you are out at sea with no visible landmarks and the...
SciShow
Did We Find Longitude Thanks To A...Clock?
The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition....
MinutePhysics
Why December Has The Longest Days
December has the longest solar days (noon-to-noon) because of the weird way a combination of the axial tilt of the earth and the eccentricity of its elliptical orbit conspire in December. Perihelion + Solstices = Long Days.
SciShow
Did We Find Longitude Thanks To A...Clock?
The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition.
TED-Ed
Why every world map is wrong | Kayla Wolf
Fourteen Greenlands could fit in Africa— but you wouldn't guess it from most maps of the world. The fact is, every world map humans have ever made is wrong. Actually, it's impossible to make a flat map of the whole spherical world 100%...
MinuteEarth
Null Island - The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist
Null Island - The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist
Curated Video
Longitude and Latitude: Navigating the Globe with Precision
In this video, the teacher explains the significance of longitude and latitude in cartography and navigation. They discuss the challenges faced by explorers in determining longitude and how accurate timekeeping was the key. The teacher...
Curated Video
Time Zones
The time on your watch is more complicated than you might think. Find out how and why time changes as you move around the planet, and how these changes affect you. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. Time...
Curated Video
The Longitude Problem
In an age before satellite navigation and GPS, one man found an ingenious solution to the problem of determining a ship's location at sea. Discover the relationship between place and time. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements -...
Curated Video
International date line
Welcome to the Alaskan island where, thanks to the international date line, you can look back in time. People and places - Mapping - Time zones Learning Points The imaginary line that marks the point where the date changes is known as...
Curated Video
What time is breakfast?
What time is it in Nairobi? See how standard time zones allow us to find out! People and places -Mapping - Time zones Learning Points The Earth is divided into around 24 time zones and each is exactly one hour different from the last....
Curated Video
Where on Earth are you?
Believe it or not only two numbers are needed to locate your exact position on Earth - your longitude and latitude! People and places -Mapping - Latitude and longitude Learning Points Longitude: imaginary lines that run vertically around...
Curated Video
Early explorers
Find out how early explorers navigated the seas before they had maps to guide them. People and places - Mapping - Mapping the seas Learning Points Fifteenth-century explorers used dead reckoning to estimate longitude. Explorers in the...
Wonderscape
Exploring the World: Maps, Latitude, and Longitude
This video explains how world maps and globes help us understand the locations of places on Earth. Learn about key concepts like the equator, prime meridian, latitude, and longitude, and how they are used to pinpoint locations. Discover...
Curated Video
Modern JavaScript from the Beginning - Second Edition - Show Location on a Map
In this video, you will learn how to show the location data on a map using the Google Maps API. You will also learn how to customize the map according to your needs. This clip is from the chapter "Web Browser APIs" of the series "Modern...
Curated Video
Ultimate Tableau Desktop Course - Beginner to Advanced Bundle - Exercise 2
This exercise will create a route map based on the London bus route dataset.
Curated Video
Learn Tableau by Working on Exciting Dashboards - Tableau Generated Fields
This video explains Tableau generated fields and how we can use them.
Curated Video
Mastering WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16 with Dynamic Island - Weather Widget Introduction
This video introduces you to the weather widget project, which will fetch weather data from the API. This clip is from the chapter "Widget Size Family" of the series "Mastering WidgetKit in SwiftUI 4, iOS 16 with Dynamic Island".This...
Curated Video
Geography Terms and Tools
Dr. Forrester teaches about landforms and bodies of water that cover the earth. She tells about how globes, maps, and atlases are ways to identify those landforms and bodies of water.
Curated Video
Absolute and Relative Location
Absolute and Relative Location explains the difference between the terms absolute location and relative location by defining each term and giving examples.
Curated Video
Create a machine learning model of a real-life process or object : Implementing a Multi Layer Perceptron (Artificial Neural Network)
From the section: Regression Task Airbnb Prices in New York. We will use a real-world Airbnb dataset that contains data about New York properties for rent in 2019 on Airbnb, including their price. It is a simple dataset and makes a good...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Hurricane Structure
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Python Programmer
EDA Python - 21-Pandas_Geo_1
In this part 5 of the EDA project, we plot covid-19 data onto a map using geopandas.
Curated Video
Advanced Swift 2 Application Development (Video 20)
The number of smartphone users is increasing every single day, and as more and more of them are looking for new and interesting ways to improve their lives through mobile applications, the need for a language that will deploy on all...