Recommended (science) video channels
Which are your favourite channels (related to BrainFood's theme)?
Which are your favourite channels (related to BrainFood's theme)?
25,000 neurons growing on a multi-electrode array form a living "brain," which is hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. Information on the aircraft's movements is processed by stimulating neurons with electrodes. The neurons then fire in patterns that control the aircraft's flight path....
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts that the universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wave function collapse....
All 13.8 billion years of history squished into 10 minutes. On this timescale, humanity has existed for less than one second.
A collection of Chernobyl documentaries filmed on-site in October, 2021. Including a look at Pripyat's unique dog population!
Snake's tongue has two sensitive tips, called tines, which help the snake smell in stereo.
Walking shark (Hemiscyllium Halmahera)...
A stroke survivor with fluent aphasia speaking with effortless speech but impaired meaning and poor comprehension....
Superconducting material can become pinned in place above a neodymium magnet. When those magnets are arranged in a track, the superconductor can follow that track even if it has loops and corkscrews.
An analog computer uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved....
Emulating optics of a real camera to create photographs in Blender.
At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as...
Listened to an interesting programme about mathematics on the radio the other day....
Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9boE53Z_lAg
Private foundation is an institution with a very special status. They are tax exempt private organizations yet they are still allowed to invest into for profit companies. Foundations can hold corporate stocks and bonds and generate revenue this way....
"Çatalhöyük: a 9000 year old town"...
Sister channel to History of the Universe channel https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/videos
This video, a scientific visualization of the galaxies captured as a part of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey, showcases a large undertaking by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It flies by thousands of galaxies, starting with those nearby and ending with less-developed galaxies in the very distant...
Linguistics professor Daniel Everett explains the idea of "xibipiio," a way of life he encountered while studying the language of the Amazonian Piraha tribe. Everett, a former Christian missionary, was challenged to rethink his faith after learning the Piraha's concept of experiential liminality....
Von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island.
Beautiful vortices in the wake of an F-15 pulling Gs, when the parallel vortices break down due to Crow instability, they break off into rings (toroidal vortices).
A whale fall occurs when the carcass of a whale has fallen onto the ocean floor at a depth greater than 1,000 m (3,300 ft), in the bathyal or abyssal zones. On the sea floor, these carcasses can create complex localized ecosystems that supply sustenance to deep-sea organisms for decades. Wiki