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This is an inspiring science video:
...Brings Together Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, Ira Flatow, and More on One Stage
Posted October 7, 2013
The world at seven billion - A BBC film about population
Posted July 16, 2013
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion - A new film about the effects of overpopulation. Watch this free streaming of the new director's cut through May.
Posted April 21, 2013
Mariana Trench Movie This is a downloadable 43 second animated flyover and flythrough of the Mariana Trench, ending at Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in all of the oceans.
Posted Feb 9, 2013
Catfish hunt pigeons in a reversal of the typical bird vs fish preditor-prey relationship. Posted Dec 26, 2012
History of the world in 90 seconds from a science perspective. Starting from the Big Bang...
One year of the moon in 2.5 minutes
This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2011, at hourly intervals.
Duration: 2.5 minutes. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Computer animation of Japanese Tsunami Debris Field
"Debris from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan has begun to reach the west coast of North america. This animation is the best estimate of where the debris is located and where it is forecast to go. It is based on the behavior of driftiing buoys deployed in the ocean for scientific purposes in recent years." - from the story at USToday / News
National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library
"The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library is an online vault where a comprehensive collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from America's underwater treasures are securely stored and available for searchable access and download." - from the website
BBC Video of Brown Tree Snake on Guam
"The tiny US territory of Guam is packed with more than two million brown tree snakes.
The serpents first arrived on the island 60 years ago from Papua New Guinea. But they so rapidly grew in number that they are now one of the worst invasive species in the world and have decimated the local wildlife.
BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle joins wildlife biologist James Stanford on the trail of the snakes." - from the BBC News website
from NOAA National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC)
(as seen on the National Geographic channel, December 2006)
Find out more about the Mariana Trench here.
Award Winning Videos of the Periodic Table
"Martyn Poliakoff is a chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham, and for many years was best known as the brother of director and scriptwriter, Stephen.
But after a meeting with video journalist Brady Haran he has become a worldwide phenomenon.
The two of them came up with the idea of making a periodic table of videos - with a short film about every element in the periodic table" - BBC News 25 February 2012
Last Updated 1/9/2014