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Can You Perceive Acceleration?
Can our eyes detect changes in an object's motion? The video's narrator picks two unsuspecting volunteers to be at the center of an acceleration study. The resource compares the view of a distant landscape with an up-close observation of...
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Misconceptions About Heat
How do you dispel misconceptions about heat? Bake a cake! Using an infrared thermometer, the narrator discloses heat's true nature to unsuspecting beach-goers, as well as to his mother. Our sense of touch misleads us into measuring heat...
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What Is Chemistry?
Hard to describe, even harder to grasp in some cases, what is chemistry? According to participants in an impromptu video, it's more about ... love? See the perspective of all walks of life when the narrator pops the question in an...
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What Is Water Made Of?
Get to know H2O! It's the most popular molecule in the world, but how well do you know it, really? An interview-style video gets to the bottom of our common knowledge about water, asking random subjects for the formula and what the...
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How Does The Earth Spin?
It's a new spin on acceleration! Watch as visitors at a park try to explain the rotation of the Earth using a granite model. The interviewer demonstrates the application of force in different directions to cause the sphere to accelerate...
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Why Does The Earth Spin?
Is it really love that makes the world go 'round? Find out in an amusing interview-based video. The narrator asks visitors at a city park why Earth continues to turn on its axis. After several misguided attempts at invoking different...
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How Long Does It Take for the Earth to Go around the Sun?
It's one of those questions that seems simple, but is it? Watch as an interviewer asks people how long it takes for the Earth to go around the sun — and their surprising responses. The video provides a humorous look at a basic earth...
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States of Matter
What makes water icy? Explore a range of theories from patrons at a public skating rink in an interview-style video. The narrator leads participatns through the phase change all the way to the molecular level, where less movement...
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Where Did The Earth Come From?
What are we made of and where did all of this stuff come from? From the Big Bang to star dust, the narrator of an entertaining video explores many different theories. Scholars learn the sequence of events that had to occur to create the...
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How Old Is The Earth?
How do you put 4.5 billion years into terms that young scholars can understand? Use your arms! Examine just how long our Earth has been around in a short video. The content includes the appearance of single-celled, then...
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How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe)
Is the moon relatively close? Relatively far away? Examine some images of Earth and the moon together ... and answers will vary. The narrator examines the problem of scale in an eye-opening video. He uses a basketball and a tennis ball...
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Shadow Illusion
The sun really is magic! Witness the results of a pinhole camera and the shadows it creates. The narrator of a short video presents different pieces of cardboard with various holes in the center ... only to produce the same image time...
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Why Are Astronauts Weightless?
Where is gravity when you need it? Explore Earth's hold on the astronauts at the International Space Station. The narrator of a short video asks museum visitors why they think the astronauts float when they are still very close to Earth....
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Are You Lightest In The Morning?
Does the time of day affect your body weight? If so, how? The narrator conducts an experiment to determine when the human body is its lightest. Viewers see interesting, and often amusing, theories from on-the-spot interviews and watch as...
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Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?
How does the sun give us light and heat? Discover what's really going on inside the centerpiece of our solar system in a brief video. The content includes common misconceptions about the sun's source of energy, how the simple elements...
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Where Do Trees Get Their Mass From?
From stately oaks to towering pines, trees are the largest members of the plant kingdom that most people see. But how do trees get so big? Find out where the mass of a tree comes from with a short video. The narrator presents the topic...
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Misconceptions About Temperature
Do we actually feel temperature? Examine the relationship between what we feel and what is actually taking place in a video about temperature misconceptions. The narrator asks random passersby to feel different objects, then has them...
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Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?
Why do warm, tropical environments seem to be the perfect place to find so many of the world's most venomous animals? Explore several theories in an interesting video. The narrator differentiates between venomous and poisonous, describes...
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How Does A Sailboat Actually Work?
How does a sailboat go both with and against the wind? The Vertasium video surveys people on this question. After asking many people to explain the way a sailboat works, finally a sailor answers. This allows for discussion of lift and...