MinutePhysics
Spacetime Intervals: Not EVERYTHING is Relative | Special Relativity Ch. 7
This video is chapter 7 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the idea that some things AREN'T relative: there IS a sense of absolute length and absolute time, which can be agreed upon from all moving perspectives (as long as...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Trust
NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS: Professor Daston talks about how being confronted with two crises of global dimensions: the COVID-19 pandemic and global climate change, led to an international governance structure and collaboration of scientific...
Curated Video
The importance of science: an outsider's perspective
'The importance of science: an outsider's perspective', Bill Bryson FRS in conversation with Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE. Award-winning author Bill Bryson speaks to Professor Jim Al-Khalili about his personal experiences and...
TED Talks
TED: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd
What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know --...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation | Episode 16: Fourier Series -- The "atoms" of Math
Episode 16 #YourDailyEquation: Much as matter, however complicated, can be decomposed into combinations of atoms, mathematical functions, however complicated, can be decomposed into combinations of simpler functions--sines and cosines....
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation | Episode 11: Euler's Identity or The Most Beautiful of all Equations
Episode 11 #YourDailyEquation: Euler's Identity is widely viewed as the most beautiful of all mathematical equations, combining a handful of disparate fundamental quantities into a single mathematical formula. In this episode of Your...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation | Episode 12: The Schrödinger Equation--the Core of Quantum Mechanics
Episode 12 #YourDailyEquation: At the core of Quantum Mechanics -- the most precise theory ever developed -- is Schrödinger's Equation. In this episode of Your Daily Equation, Brian explains where the equation comes from and how it is...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation | Episode 04: Relativity of Simultaneity
Episode 04 #YourDailyEquation: Today's equation shows that simultaneity is in the eye of the beholder. Two people who are moving relative to one another will not agree on what happens at the same time, and Brian derives the time...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #32: Entropy and the Arrow of Time
Episode 32 #YourDailyEquation: Einstein referred to entropy and the second law of thermodynamics as the only insights into the workings of the world that would never be overthrown. Join Brian Greene as he explores how these concepts...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #28: Einstein, The Big Bang, and the Expansion of the Universe
Episode 28 #YourDailyEquation: Shortly after Einstein published his new theory of gravity, his general theory of relativity, researchers realized that it predicted that the universe should expanding--a prediction subsequently confirmed...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #26: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: The Essential Idea
Episode 26 #YourDailyEquation: Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, phrased in terms of warps and curves in space and time, provides our most refined description of the gravitational force. Join Brian Greene for a visual...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #21: Bell's Theorem and the Non-locality of the Universe
Episode 21 #YourDailyEquation: Albert Einstein and his colleagues Podolsky and Rosen proposed a simple way to rid quantum mechanics of its most disturbing feature--called non-locality--in which an action undertaken here can affect the...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: The Nature of Research
SCIENCE, ONGOING: Professor Barwich talks about how the pandemic has highlighted the need to teach people science as a process as well as the actual concepts of science to increase democratic participation and how the pandemic showed the...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Expertise
IDENTIFYING EXPERTISE: Professor Frazer talks about how the pandemic has given a new urgency to the question who has legitimacy to rule over others as the pandemic has shown us how much we rely on expertise to survive and has created a...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Links to Climate Change
UNAVOIDABLE CONNECTEDNESS: Professor Kondrashov talks about the need to do more basic research which can only be done with sufficient government funding which may be negatively impacted by the pandemic, how the pandemic has highlighted...
MinutePhysics
Relativity of Simultaneity | Special Relativity Ch. 4
The previous videos in this series: Chapter 1: Why Relativity is Hard Chapter 2: Spacetime Diagrams Chapter 3: Lorentz Transformations This video is chapter 4 in my series on special relativity, and it covers how things that appear...
Curated Video
The hotline Hollywood calls for science advice
There's a consulting service that helped Arrival's filmmakers get their science right — and it's changing what science looks like onscreen. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Hollywood hasn’t always done a great job of...
Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Lessons from History
HISTORICAL PARALLELS: Professor Ruiz talks about the haunting parallels between the spread of the plague in 14th-century Europe and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, including how more poor people died from the plague...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lee McIntyre - How to Talk to a Science Denier
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy...
Curated Video
The Future of the Past
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) describes his motivation to find new perspectives of the past, and his excitement at the possibility of retrieving long-lost manuscripts.
Curated Video
Global Perspectives
Four leading scholars give us their unique take on different aspects of the global socio-political landscape, past and present. Featured are intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), Emilie Hafner-Burton, Professor of International...
World Science Festival
Public Perceptions of Privacy
Would you give somebody your bank PIN for a candy bar? Cryptanalyst Orr Dunkelman tells the cryptography panel about a surprising study that found that most people would. Why is that? Perhaps because this bit of information is just one...
TED Talks
Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who,...