Entries from Element List tagged with 'video'

NIH Grant Writing Tips

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a YouTube channel called NIH On Demand (NIHOD) that is packed with helpful videos on grant writing, peer review, and a range of biomedical research topics. Even if you're not submitting a...

Posted on June 30, 2010
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The Tyranny of the Most Important Problem

Apple's iTunes has hundreds if not thousands of university lectures available for download from such top schools as MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. Last Spring, I came across a wonderful survey course called Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental...

Posted on January 31, 2010
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Video Friday: Science 2.0: The Design Science of Collaboration

Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, gave a talk for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar on his ideas around the concept of Science 2.0, which is generally comprised of collaborative internet applications...

Posted on November 12, 2009
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PBS Science Programs Find an Online Home at Hulu

PBS has announced that they will soon be supplying PBS programs on Hulu, the YouTube killer created by NBC and FOX. The catch is that a single 30-second commercial will play before each episode and most programs will only be...

Posted on June 11, 2008
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Scientific American Will Take Your Science Videos, Or Not

Social Media reports that Scientific American is accepting user-generated science videos, which you can submit here. While the link seems legitimate enough, we can't find an accompanying article describing the program on the Scientific American website. According to the disclaimer...

Posted on August 26, 2007
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And the Winner is ... String Ducky!

Discover Magazine has announced the winners of the String Theory in Two Minutes or Less video contest. Woot! Columbia University Physicist Prof. Brian Greene selected String Ducky, above, as the winner. The majority of viewers, however, took their frustrations out...

Posted on July 18, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Thanks, George

... for making Star Wars....

Posted on May 25, 2007
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Vote for Your Favorite String Theory Video

Discover Magazine has posted the finalists from the String Theory in Two Minutes or Less contest on its website. Columbia Physicist and string theory expert Brian Greene will pick the winning video, but you can watch the videos and select...

Posted on May 15, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Larry Page's Talk at the AAAS

The entire hour-long talk that Larry Page gave at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February is available on YouTube. His talk spans a wide range of subjects, including science's marketing problem, the importance of having...

Posted on May 11, 2007
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Dinosaurs Dodging Comets

I love the comparison, but maybe that's because it appeals to my geeky side. "For now, the biggest news in the exploding realm of online video is not much more than a news release. Still, the recent announcement from...

Posted on April 2, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: A Moment of Silence for The Show with Ze Frank

It's been almost two weeks since Ze Frank ended The Show, and we don't know what to do with ourselves anymore. Sure, Ze might not have been a science vlogger, but he studied a little neuroscience in college, so we...

Posted on March 30, 2007
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NYC World Science Festival Coming in 2008

Physicist Brian Greene from Columbia University and Alan Alda, host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers are organizing a week-long World Science Festival in New York City to be held in 2008. The plan is for this to be an...

Posted on March 26, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Web 3.0 Killed the TV Star

While some people have just started to get in on the Web 2.0 craze, webophiles have been busy with Web 3.0, which is all about online video. We're keeping a directory of science videos in the Element List science link...

Posted on March 23, 2007
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Last Week of The Show with Ze Frank

Ze Frank, video blogger extraordinaire, Brown neuroscience drop-out, and son of National Academy of Sciences member Joachim Frank (pictured right; see, there's a science angle), will reach the end of his year-long video blog, The Show, this week. If you...

Posted on March 12, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Which Online Science Mags Have Videos?

Many, if not most, science magazines have blogs and podcasts now, which we all know is so Web 2.zzzzz. The new internet craze is all about video. So where do science magazines stand when it comes to posting original videos...

Posted on March 9, 2007
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Playing with Google Earth and Warcraft III on a Table

Edward Tse created a digital table interface that allows users to interact with programs such as Google Earth and games like Warcraft III. In this video, Edward shows how he can zoom in, out, and over a 3D Google Earth...

Posted on March 3, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Google Video Documentaries

Google Video is full of documentaries - approx 3,700 videos full - including many about science and technology. Here are just a few good links. Richard Dawkins - Nice Guys Finish First The History of Hacking The Missing Secrets of...

Posted on March 2, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Alvin and Int'l Space Station Make Contact

In case you haven't seen it yet, check out the video of oceanographer Tim Shank in the Alvin submersible speaking to astronaut Suni Williams in the International Space Station. They spoke through 2 miles of water and 220 miles of...

Posted on February 9, 2007
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Overheard in the Science Blogosphere

Royal Society Podcast - The Royal Society is producing its own podcasts these days covering science and medicine (interesting that they distinguish the two). The most recent podcast released January 31 covers the history of the science behind climate change...

Posted on February 2, 2007
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7 Ways to Ruin a Technological Revolution

From the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law: If you wanted to undermine the technological revolution of the last 30 years, using the law, how would you do it? Faculty Co-Director James Boyle provides...

Posted on January 27, 2007
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Why We Like Swivel

We're having a geek crush on Swivel, the data sharing site that launched in preview mode in December (though a little Googling shows it has been in beta, oh, since at least 2005). Swivel CEO and Co-Founder Brian Mulloy stopped...

Posted on January 24, 2007
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What is Creative Commons: The Video

You've probably seen the Creative Commons symbol, but might not have known exactly what it means. We could explain it to you here, but this Creative Commons video is much more fun to watch. For more info on choosing Creative...

Posted on January 23, 2007
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Multimedia Friday: Science and Architecture in Valencia

Quote: "A truly mind-blowing confection of some of Europe's most awesome architecture, the City of Arts and Science in Valencia is fast becoming one of Spain's top tourist attractions. This futuristic "city within a city" must surely rank as...

Posted on January 19, 2007
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Stanford Prison Experiment Video - Psychology of Imprisonment

You've heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment. Now you can watch the video on YouTube. The experiment was conducted in the basement of the Stanford Department of Psychology in 1971. It gives some insight into how atrocities like the Abu...

Posted on January 13, 2007
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Chris Mooney Interview on The Republican War on Science

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, was interviewed about his book last year by Naomi Oreskes, Director of the Science Studies and Professor in the Department of History at UC San Diego. The roughly 30-minute-long interview covers,...

Posted on January 10, 2007
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Marie Tharp Remembered in NYT Magazine

Marie Tharp, who died this year, is remembered in this weekend's year-end issue of The New York Times Magazine. Marie is famous for creating the first physiographic map of the ocean floor using bathymetry data collected along ship traverses around...

Posted on December 31, 2006
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Multimedia Friday Saturday: Pink Floyd's The Wall Gone Green

With so many ways to rebel in the world, why waste your time piercing your nose when you could do something really revolutionary? You know, something useful....

Posted on December 30, 2006
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Ayles Ice Shelf Breaks Free in Arctic

The major news organizations are reporting that the Ayles Canadian ice shelf has broken free of Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, creating an island of floating ice that reaches up to 15 kilometers by five kilometers wide. Oil platforms, boats,...

Posted on December 29, 2006
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AMNH Earth Viz Video of Arctic Sea Ice Fluctuations

The American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins website has some amazing Flash movies covering various earth science topics, including one pictured here on the steady decrease in Arctic sea ice volume since 1979. The Earth Viz movie is based...

Posted on December 29, 2006
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