SciShow delves into the minds of some of humanity’s greatest scientists. Some of them are: Dmitri Mendeleev – brilliant Russian chemist, the man behind the periodic table. Gregor Mendel – the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental
I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means examines scientific theories that have found their way into popular culture and taken on a life of their own and helps you understand what they really mean in scientific terms. Schrodinger’s Cat – the famous thought experiment
Short documentary about Titan, including panoramic images of the planet, the mission to send the probe there and why it holds the secret to life on Earth. Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched and professor John Zarnecki shows the first
This is a compilation of videos made by logicked in which he thoroughly debunks John Morris Pendleton’s claims. It certainly does create a strong feeling of trust when someone on TV or in a video says “Hello, I’m a doctor” or “Hello, I’m a scientist”. Probably this
Hank does his best to convince us that chemistry is not torture, but is instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff. Chemistry can tell us how three tiny particles – the proton, neutron and electron – come together in trillions of combinations to form… everything. We
Using Goethe’s Theory of Colors (Zur Farbenlehre) as point of departure, Light Darkness and Colors takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colors. In 1704, Sir Isaac Newton published Light and Refraction, his study of the interactions between sunlight and prisms. Newton was, as
Featuring members of the the Harvard Placebo Study Group, “Placebo: Cracking the Code” examines the power of belief in alleviating pain, curing disease, and the healing of injuries. The placebo effect is a pervasive, albeit misunderstood, phenomenon in medicine. In the UK, over 60% of doctors surveyed
“Science” of the Gaps is made by the author of There Are No Gods (TheraminTrees) in which he speaks about the psychological manipulation behind the pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is a system of belief and practice falsely presented as the fruit of the scientific method. Religion and pseudoscience can
Over a century ago, sponge divers recovered an extremely complex mechanical device from a shipwreck. Hidden among a rich cache of bronze and marble statues, glassware and amphorae was a mechanism the size of a shoe box. Inside the mechanism were mathematical gears and pointers. The Ancient
This film captures the spirit of Mars pioneers who refuse to let their dreams be put on hold by a slumbering space program. Their passionate urge to walk the soil of an alien world is infectious and inspirational. This film is the manifesto of the new space