Oxford Comma
A Look at Inspiration in She Walks in Beauty
Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: What is a Rip Current?
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Little Smart Planet
Learning about wild animals
Review in an easy and fun way all about wild animals
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: How Can You Stay Safe from Rip Currents?
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Zach Star
What Math Classes do Engineers (and Physics Majors) Take (Part 2)?
In the last video I covered the required math classes for engineers and physics majors that you will definitely see. This video will cover more of the classes that you MAY encounter depending on your major. These classes include......
Curated Video
Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves and Atoms: Gamma Rays and Radiation Dose
This video discusses how electromagnetic waves can interact with charged particles, specifically electrons in atoms. It explains how electromagnetic waves can cause electrons to absorb energy and jump to higher energy levels or emit...
Curated Video
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Explained in Simple Words
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says that if we know everything about where a particle is located, we know nothing about its momentum. Conversely, if we know everything about its momentum, then we know nothing about where the particle...
Physics Girl
Why are there giant concrete tunnels in the desert?
The Physics Girl team visited LIGO once again. This place is Dianna's obsession.
Science360
LIGO detects gravitational waves - announcement at press conference (part 2)
Part 2 of the press conference announcing the first direct detection of gravitational waves -- February 11, 2016. The press conference continued after the live webcast concluded. See the remainder here for the first time.
Curated Video
Changes of Medium: Waves Crossing Boundaries
This video is a lecture on how waves change as they cross the boundary between different materials, also known as changes of medium. The video explains what a medium is and how it affects wave propagation. The video uses examples of...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Jupiter with Jared Espley
As large as 1,000 Earths, Jupiter is the heavy hitter of the solar system. Even its Great Red Spot is larger than Earth, yet it’s shrinking! In this episode of Gravity Assist, Planetary Science Director Jim Green talks with Jared Espley...
Curated Video
Do Microwaves Interfere With WiFi Signals?
Yes. Microwaves and radio waves are physically the same, i.e. both are forms of electromagnetic radiation. Some microwave rays can leak out and interfere with WiFi signals. We are basically constantly surrounded by electromagnetic...
Visual Learning Systems
Waves: Reflection
This video explores the characteristics of waves. It explains the speed of waves, how this value is calculated and the four basic interaction between waves. Other terminology includes: vibration, crest, trough, amplitude, wavelength,...
Next Animation Studio
Renewable energy: CETO system converts sea waves into zero-emission electricity
An Australian company has been working on a system that uses underwater buoys to convert sea waves into zero-emission energy and desalinated water.
Curated Video
Covid-19: what you need to know about the second wave
The world now faces the threat of a second wave of coronavirus outbreaks. Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, and Slavea Chankova, our health-care correspondent, answer your questions.
Science360
NSF-funded BICEP2 collaborators announce confirmation of cosmic inflation
Researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded BICEP2 Collaboration announced that their telescope in Antarctica has allowed them to collect what they believe is the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. Inflation is the...
Next Animation Studio
The Ocean Cleanup system isn't capturing plastic as planned
A system designed to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean has not been collecting plastic.
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 111-131
In our final lesson on T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, we analyse lines 111-131. Find out how Prufrock resolves his dilemma and prepares himself for the future. As always, we make this challenging poem stress-free...
Mazz Media
Hurricane
This live-action video program is about hurricanes. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics...
Curated Video
Waves at a Boundary: Refraction, Reflection, and Transmission
This is a lecture video that explains what can happen to a wave as it encounters the boundary between two different media. The video discusses the changes in wave speed and wavelength at the boundary, as well as the phenomenon of...
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...
Curated Video
Abortion at sea
Making abortions illegal does not stop them from happening, but it does stop them happening safely. Meet the charity taking women out to international waters where they can have safe abortions without fear of prosecution.
The Wall Street Journal
Investing in Global Health
At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker spoke with Health & Science Bureau Chief Stefanie Ilgenfritz about lessons we can apply from this pandemic to fighting the next superbug.
FuseSchool
Wave Equation
Wave Equation | Waves | Physics | FuseSchool Waves have a frequency (the number of complete waves passing a point every second and measured in Hertz), wavelength (the distance between two consecutive points on a wave) and amplitude - the...