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‘Creationism: Still Crazy After All These Years’ – Eugenie Scott, AAI 2009

Number of View: 6 Eugenie Scott’s presentation at the AAI 2009 Convention in Burbank, California. Scott is the head of the National Center for Science Education, which works to protect the teaching of Evolution in American schools. Visit ncse.com This video (along with the 120 others in this channel) are provided free to the public [...]

How To Time Travel

Number of View: 9 Late for school? A meeting? Just take a wormhole — you’ll be there before you know it. Video Rating: 0 / 5

Story Hour in the Library – Mary Roach

Number of View: 5 Mary Roach is author of New York Times bestsellers “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” “Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife,” and “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.” “Stiff” has been translated into 17 languages, and “Spook” was a 2005 New York Times Notable Book. “Bonk” was chosen as [...]

Fantastic Plastic – Magic Molecules

Number of View: 14 DVD available at: www.longtailnet.com In only a century, plastics have pushed back the boundaries of human capabilities, revealing limitless frontiers waiting to be explored. Plastics are synthetic materials formed when small molecules are joined together to form huge molecular chains, called polymers. These extraordinary materials – largely taken for granted in [...]

The Secret Life of Chaos Part (1 – 6)

Number of View: 10 Part 1 out of 5 Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question [...]

Ep4: The Ultraviolet Garden – Growing Up in the Universe – Richard Dawkins

Number of View: 11 richarddawkins.net Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this [...]

Story Hour in the Library: Mary Roach

Number of View: 10 Mary Roach is the author of New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. She speaks to an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: Story Hour in the Library [2/2010] [Humanities] [Show ID: 17973] Video [...]

Body Wars

Number of View: 15 DVD available at: www.longtailnet.com Something frightening is happening to the citizens of the developed world. Despite major advances in health care, over recent decades weve been battling an ever-growing epidemic of once rare allergic and autoimmune diseases. Today, more than 17 million people in the US alone struggle to maintain one [...]