Visual Learning Systems
Maintaining a Healthy Body: Physical Activity and Rest
Maintaining a healthy body is a fundamental part of leading a fulfilling, successful life. This series of videos highlights many of the basic things everyone can do to maintain a safe and healthy lifestyle. Concepts and terminology...
Curated Video
Symmetry and Optical Activity: Do Your Molecules Have It?
Symmetry and optical activity are intricately linked in organic molecules. A molecule is optically active if it can rotate the plane of polarized light. Optical activity arises from the molecule’s lack of symmetry—specifically, its...
Curated Video
One Theory that Connects Everything: AdS/CFT Correspondence Demystified
New ReviewAdS/CFT suggests that our three-dimensional universe can be perfectly modeled by a two-dimensional surface. On one side is AdS, or Anti-de Sitter space, which is a kind of imaginary universe with some unusual properties - negative...
Curated Video
Making Exercise a Routine
Starting an exercise routine can be difficult and continuing with it is even harder. Here are some tips and tricks to help you stay motivated. Exercise Routines part 1/2
Curated Video
Balancing Diet and Exercise
This video emphasizes the importance of healthy eating and proper diet in conjunction with a workout routine. It also highlights the potential risks and drawbacks of extreme and restrictive diets, as well as the benefits of combining...
Curated Video
Setting an Exercise Schedule and Goals
This video provides tips for monitoring progress and achieving fitness goals. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on tape measurements rather than relying solely on the scale, as muscle is denser than fat. The video also suggests...
Curated Video
Exercise Expectations and Goals
This video provides tips and motivation for sticking to an exercise routine. It emphasizes the importance of tracking progress, varying workouts, and setting goals. It also highlights the benefits of exercising with a buddy and the need...
Curated Video
Introduction to Weight Training
This video discusses the history and benefits of weight training, emphasizing the importance of finding the right routine based on your fitness level and goals. It provides safety precautions and emphasizes the importance of proper form...
TED Talks
TED: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies...
Then & Now
Introduction to Bourdieu: Habitus
In this introduction to Pierre Bourdieu, I look at a number of his key concepts: Habitus, Field & Cultural Capital, while focusing primarily on habitus. First I contextualize Bourdieu's sociology in the debates between structuralism,...
Physics Girl
Are MRIs safe?
Are there any dangers associated with receiving an MRI and how exactly does an MRI work? Is it safe? Medical imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has come so far that we can create high resolution images of the entire...
NASA
September 2017 Starts With Flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect...
Science360
EARLY CONCEPT BRAIN RESEARCH: NEXT-GENERATION OPTOGENETICS
Researchers all over the world use a technology called optogenetics that allows them to turn neurons on and off in living laboratory organisms by exposing them to certain types of light. Stephen Boppart of the University of Illinois at...
Science360
Next-generation optogenetics -- early concept brain research
Researchers all over the world use a technology called optogenetics, which allows them to turn neurons on and off in living laboratory organisms, by exposing them to certain types of light. Stephen Boppart of the University of Illinois...
Curated Video
Understanding Biometric Security and Protecting Yourself from ATM Skimming
This video explores the importance of biometric technology in enhancing security measures for banking and transactions. It highlights the risks of card skimming and emphasizes the effectiveness of biometric authentication methods such as...
Let's Tute
Light Reflection in a Plane Mirror
This video explains the science behind reflection in plane mirrors, including the formation of virtual and real images, lateral inversion, and the properties of upright and erect images. It also includes an activity to identify letters...
SciShow
How Climate Scientists Predict the Future
Over the years, scientists have made a lot of predictions about how Earth's climate is changing, but they don't just pull those predictions from thin air. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us...
MinuteEarth
What Are Brain Waves?
This video was sponsored by "Robot-Proof", written by Northeastern University's President, Joseph E. Aoun. Learn more here: https://goo.gl/uF5Kx8 Thank you to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth Even the parts of our...
MinuteEarth
What Are Brain Waves?
Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these...
Domain of Science
Five Ways You Use Quantum Technology Every Day
You might not know that you use quantum technologies every day pretty much constantly. Here I have summarised five of them, but there are many others. Quantum physics is often seen as a weird part of physics, far removed from our every...
Curated Video
60 second adventures in collaborative science with David Mitchell - Citizen Science (1/3)
How do you become a scientist or contribute to a great discovery? We’ve all heard of Einstein, Newton and Hawking but did you know that even people without a PhD with some complicated sounding title can play an integral role in exploring...
Science360
Home Sensors Enable Seniors To Live Independently
People are living longer and they desire to live as independently as possible in their senior years. But, independent lifestyles come with risks, such as debilitating falls and deteriorating health resulting from inadequate care. To...
NASA
NASA | Gradient Sun
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. But there is more to the connection between the two disciplines: science and art techniques are often quite similar,...
Science360
Home sensors enable seniors to live independently - Science Nation
People are living longer and they desire to live as independently as possible in their senior years. But, independent lifestyles come with risks, such as debilitating falls and deteriorating health resulting from inadequate care. To...