Curated Video
Measuring Distance Using Velocity Time Graphs
This video is a lecture on how to measure the distance traveled by an object using its velocity-time graph. The concept of the area under the velocity-time graph representing distance is explained, and examples are provided to...
Seven Dimensions
Improving Business Success: The Seven Levers Framework
In this video, the speaker discusses a framework called the Seven Levers that can be used to improve success in business. The speaker explains each lever and how increasing each one by just 10% can double the profit of a business. They...
Science360
Science Behind The News: Extrasolar Planets
Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Astronomers like Dr. William Welsh at San Diego State University primarily use two methods to detect these distant planets: Doppler and Transit methods....
Visual Learning Systems
How to Measure Volume: Liquid Volume
This useful video program helps students understand the concept of volume and the exciting ways that it can be measured. Concepts and terminology: liquid, solid, liter, milliliter, cubic centimeter, beaker, and graduated cylinder.
Seven Dimensions
Running an Effective Crisis Simulation
In this video, Ross Campbell, an expert in crisis management, discusses the importance of exercising and scenario planning in preparing for potential crises. He emphasizes the need to test and validate crisis response plans through...
Healthcare Triage
Medicaid Report Cards Are Out, and Life Isn't About Grades
The Trump administration has released Medicaid report cards, which allow citizens and health care journalists to look at the results of Medicaid, state by state. The good news: our beloved Indiana is doing OK! The bad news, there's a lot...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Tools for Managing Sustainability Part 2
Discusses the third tool to use when managing for sustainability: GHG Inventory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Making a Mini Laser Frequency Comb in Minutes
NIST physicist Scott Papp describes NIST's process for making a miniature laser frequency comb in minutes. The process involves machining a piece of quartz to produce a small, smooth disk within which light can circulate.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Probe Tack Measurements of Combinatorial Libraries
Adhesion is a measure of how strongly two objects stick together, and depends on a number of things, such as temperature or how rough the surfaces are. At the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center, we have developed measurement tools that...
Curated Video
Methods of Estimating and Environmental Factors Affecting Transpiration in Plants
This video explains what transpiration is, how it can be estimated through experiments measuring the uptake of water by plants or the mass of water lost by the plants, and how changes in environmental conditions such as temperature,...
Curated Video
Methods for Measuring Wave Speed
This is a lecture video that explains various methods used to measure the speed of waves. The video starts by introducing two equations that can be used to calculate the wave speed. It then focuses on two examples to explain how to use...
Science360
SCIENTISTS CREATE ICE STORMS TO STUDY NATURE'S CHILLY RESPONSE
Anyone who has ever driven in freezing rain knows all too well the potential hazards of an ice storm. These powerful winter weather events are also capable of catastrophic ecological and socio-economic impacts on forest ecosystems,...
Schooling Online
Physics Skills: Accuracy
The royal archery contest begins! Everyone expects Robin Hood to win since he is an accurate and reliable archer. But what do the terms accuracy and reliability mean? This lesson will take an in-depth look at accuracy and systematic...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nikhil Goyal - The Tyranny of Testing
Nikhil Goyal is the author of the new book Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice (Random House).
Looking Glass Universe
Schrodinger equation - Derivation and how to use it
In this video we see how the Schrodinger equation comes out very simply from the conservation of energy. First. Throughout these 2 videos, I kept talking about predicting the future, and that if you know the present state, you can...
Curated Video
Investigating the Relationship Between the Rate of Decay of Milk and Temperature
The video is a lecture presentation on the relationship between the rate of decay of milk and its temperature. The presenter discusses two possible experiments to investigate this relationship and then shows how to carry out one of them....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matthew Lerner - Autism Unlocking the Social World
Matthew D. Lerner, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, & Pediatrics in the Psychology Department at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Stony Brook Social Competence and Treatment Lab. Dr. Lerner's research...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is Matter?: Measuring Volume
In this wonderful introduction to the nature of matter, students will explore how they depend on and interact with matter. The program clearly demonstrates some of the physical and chemical properties of matter. Special attention is paid...
Visual Learning Systems
Measuring Mass and Volume: Measuring Volume of Liquids
This program begins by discussing common ways mass and volume are measured in the home. The video highlights how mass and volume are measured with various types of equipment in the school science lab. Some of the different tools used to...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Krister Shalm Explains NIST's Participation in the BIG Bell Test
NIST physicist Krister Shalm talks about NIST's participation in the November 30, 2016, BIG Bell Test, a worldwide project to bring human unpredictability (randomness) to cutting-edge physics experiments. But it's not just NIST...
Barcroft Media
UK's Shortest Family' Prepare For Second Baby
BRITAIN'S shortest family' are set to welcome their second child into the world. Laura and Nathan Phillips, who reside in Sunderland, are expecting the birth of their new baby boy in September 2018. Laura, who stands at 4ft 1, and...
The Wall Street Journal
How to Measure Cybersecuirty Awareness
Lance Spitzner, Director at SANS, discusses how should companies can best measure and report the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs.