Science Quick Picks » Quick Video of the Day http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks A Chemist's Selection of Science News and Resources Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:38:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Amazing Videos: The Symphony of Science http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2010/06/amazing_videos_the_symphony_of_science.html http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2010/06/amazing_videos_the_symphony_of_science.html#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:32:14 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/?p=1546 Amazing Videos: The Symphony of Science is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog dedicated to the world of Science.

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The Symphony of Science is a musical project headed by John Boswell. The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music. Science and music are two passions of him that he aims to combine, in a way that is intended to bring a meaningful message to listeners, while simultaneously providing an enjoyable musical experience. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music.

The project owes its existence in large measure to the wonderful work of Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, of Druyan-Sagan Associates, and their production of the classic PBS Series Cosmos, as well as all the other featured figures and visuals.

My favorite video: We Are All Connected (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye)

You can watch more videos here or at the Symphony of Science’s YouTube Channel.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2010/06/amazing_videos_the_symphony_of_science.html/feed 0 Project Tuva: Videos of Historic Feynman Lectures http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2009/07/project-tuva-videos-feynman-lectures.html http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2009/07/project-tuva-videos-feynman-lectures.html#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:51:43 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/?p=1520 Project Tuva: Videos of Historic Feynman Lectures is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog dedicated to the world of Science.

]]> Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web: Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, today launched Project Tuva, a web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates. Gates privately purchased the rights to the seven lectures in the series, called “The Character of Physical Law,” to make them widely available to the public for free with the hope that they will help get kids excited about physics and science.

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Feynman was one of the most popular scientists of the 20th century, equally regarded for his scientific insights as well as his ability to convey his enthusiasm for science through his lectures and writings. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 and was also known for his quirky sense of humor and eccentric and wide-ranging interests.

“No one was more adept at making science fun and interesting than Richard Feynman,” said Gates. “More than 20 years after first seeing them, these are still some of the best science lectures I’ve heard. Feynman worked hard during his life to popularize science, so I’m sure he’d be thrilled that now anyone, anywhere in the world, can just click a button and experience his lectures.”

Curtis Wong, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, enhanced the experience of viewing the lectures by integrating the historic video with a Microsoft Silverlight-based video player that allows viewers to search the lectures for references to particular subjects, take notes that are synchronized to the video, and click on hyperlinks to related Web content, among other customized operations.

Microsoft Research: Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies. Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance the state of the art in such areas as graphics, speech recognition, user-interface research, natural language processing, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, and the mathematical sciences.

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]]> http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2009/07/project-tuva-videos-feynman-lectures.html/feed 0 Quick Video: Zero Gravity Water Bubble and Alka Seltzer Experiment http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/09/quick_video_zero_gravity_water_bubble_and_alka_seltzer_experiment.html http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/09/quick_video_zero_gravity_water_bubble_and_alka_seltzer_experiment.html#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:07:59 +0000 Jorge Goncalves http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/09/quick_video_zero_gravity_water_bubble_and_alka_seltzer_experiment.html Quick Video: Zero Gravity Water Bubble and Alka Seltzer Experiment is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog dedicated to the world of Science.

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Zero Gravity Water Bubble and Alka Seltzer Experiment, Don Pettit, NASA, 6th Expedition to the International Space Station, November 2002 to May 2003

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