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MinutePhysics
How Do Bikes Stay Up?
Learn the about the physics that allows bikes to stay upright and in motion, even without a rider.
PBS
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes?
PBS
That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies to even start to figure out the cause -- or causes -- of one of the greatest vanishing acts in Earth’s...
PBS
How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch. But the identity of the killer...
PBS
When the Sahara Was Green
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of extra rain. We’re talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made...
MinutePhysics
General Relativity Explained in 7 Levels of Difficulty
This video covers the General theory of Relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, from basic simple levels (it's gravity, curved space) through to the concepts of how curved spacetime is represented by psuedo-Riemannian manifolds with...
Astrum
The Planet Closer to the Sun than Mercury: Vulcan
...because of Newtonian physics. But Albert Einstein and relativity had other ideas
Professor Dave Explains
Understanding Climate Part 1: Orbital Variations and the Sun
With the scale of ecology now understood, we can start to look at one of the most important concepts in ecology, climate. What is climate? How does it differ from weather? How does climate change over time and why? Let's do a deep dive now!
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 4: Phanerozoic Eon – Cenozoic Era
We are almost through the Phanerozoic eon! After the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras, we get to the Cenozoic era, which is the one we are still living in today. This is the age of mammals, which came to dominate the Earth, and here we also...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Cycles in the Sky
Take a look at the cyclical phenomena at work in the universe. Learn about the subtle changes in the sky that take place over time as the Earth circles the sun, following along the ecliptic. Learn how the tilt of the Earth's axis has a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later
Clarifies the effect of axial precession on the calendar and the date of perihelion and aphelion. [12:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Causes Precession and Other Orbital Changes
Video lecture explores what causes precession and other orbital changes. [2:26]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Milankovitch Cycles Precession and Obliquity
Understand how changes in Earth's rotation can effect Earth's seasons and climate in this video. [12:57]