Powers of Ten™ (1977)
Eames Office9.48M viewsCharles and Ray Eames's classic short film zooming out and in by powers of ten, from a picnic to the edge of the known universe and down to a proton.
Lectures & Documentaries
63,459 videos · Full university lectures and long-form documentaries.
Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA
UCLA203K viewsTerence Tao explains the cosmic distance ladder, the chain of methods from Earth's radius to distant galaxies.
Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong
The Royal Institution6.93M viewsDavid Tong explains why quantum fields, not particles, are the fundamental ingredients of the universe and how the Standard Model is built on them.
Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
The Royal Institution2.77M viewsIrving Finkel explains how cuneiform works and how scholars deciphered it, with tablets from the British Museum.
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On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics - Jim Al-Khalili
Gresham College215K viewsJim Al-Khalili explains what modern physics says about time: relativity, the block universe, entropy and the arrow of time.
Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
Stanford753K viewsStephen Boyd's first lecture of Stanford EE364A Convex Optimization: what optimization problems are and why convexity makes them tractable.
Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC2.82M viewsA talk at The National Museum of Computing on the design of the Apollo Guidance Computer: core rope memory, the instruction set and the 1202 alarms.
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
AT&T Tech Channel2.23M viewsThe 1982 Bell Labs film on the UNIX system, with Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan explaining pipes, tools and the shell.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
The Royal Institution1.92M viewsAnil Seth on consciousness as controlled hallucination: perception as prediction and what neuroscience can measure.
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Beckman Institute at Illinois1.12M viewsRobert Sapolsky's lecture on stress physiology: why the stress response helps zebras but harms chronically stressed humans.
Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare6.57M viewsLecture 1 of MIT 6.00 (Fall 2008): what computation is, declarative vs imperative knowledge and the start of programming in Python.
Episode 1: Introduction - The Mechanical Universe
caltech503K viewsEpisode 1 of Caltech's The Mechanical Universe: David Goodstein introduces the series and the ideas from Copernicus to Newton.
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)8.87M viewsEric Cline lectures on the collapse of Late Bronze Age civilizations around 1177 BC: trade networks, systems collapse and the Sea Peoples.
Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years
YUI Library252K viewsDouglas Crockford's history of programming languages leading up to JavaScript, the first of his lecture series on the language.
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Juan Maldacena Public Lecture: The Meaning of Spacetime
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics220K viewsJuan Maldacena on what spacetime is, from general relativity to the idea that it emerges from quantum entanglement.
Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
engineerguy207K viewsBill Hammack introduces his performance of Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures on the chemistry of a candle.
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Decoding the Universe: Quantum | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official8.96M viewsNOVA's documentary on quantum mechanics: superposition, entanglement and the experiments that established them, with working physicists.
Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest
Central Washington University1.73M viewsGeologist Nick Zentner explains the evidence for great Cascadia megathrust earthquakes, from ghost forests to Japanese tsunami records.
Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins
Science Communication Lab943K viewsRon Vale introduces kinesin, dynein and myosin motor proteins and how they convert ATP into directed motion.
1:07:41Come With Me Inside a Black Hole | Carlo Rovelli Public Lecture
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics1.4M viewsCarlo Rovelli takes the audience inside a black hole: horizons, what general relativity predicts and what loop quantum gravity suggests at the centre.
54:10When the Earth Swallows You Whole | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official604K viewsHow sinkholes form: karst geology, groundwater and the human activities that trigger collapses.
The Fallen of World War II
Neil Halloran15M viewsNeil Halloran's animated, data-driven documentary on the human cost of World War II and the long-term trend in war deaths.
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1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical
YaleCourses397K viewsDavid Blight explains why the Civil War era still holds such power over American memory and sets out the course's themes.
Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy512K viewsThe first of Marc Levoy's lectures on digital photography: optics, sensors and the computational pipeline that turns light into an image.
John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)149K viewsJohn Hennessy and David Patterson's Turing Award lecture on the future of computer architecture.
53:56Egypt's Tombs of Amun | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official290K viewsExcavating tombs of the priests of Amun in Egypt and what they reveal about Theban society.
Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare2.78M viewsLecture 1 of MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science: what a proof is, propositions, and proof by contradiction and induction.
53:32Cat Tales | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official6.19M viewsHow cats were domesticated and how their senses and behaviour work, from genetics and archaeology.
Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Fermilab1.76M viewsSean Carroll's public lecture on quantum field theory, the Higgs and where fundamental physics may go next.
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Stanford600K viewsDouglas Hofstadter argues that analogy-making is the core mechanism of human thought, with many concrete examples.
AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary
Google DeepMind38.5M viewsThe full feature documentary on DeepMind's AlphaGo and its 2016 match against Lee Sedol, including how the system was built and tested.
53:50Evolution: Brain Power | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official175K viewsHow the human brain evolved: fossil and genetic evidence for the growth of our brains.
53:55Stone Age Temple Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official1.19M viewsGöbekli Tepe and the Stone Age temples of Anatolia: what excavations reveal about hunter-gatherers who built monuments.
54:02The Bizarre Mutations That Allow Us to Eat | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official143K viewsHow genetic mutations such as lactase persistence let human populations digest new foods.
Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
Stanford1.18M viewsOpening lecture of Stanford CS107 Programming Paradigms (Jerry Cain): course overview and the low-level memory model behind C data types.
Secret History of Silicon Valley
Computer History Museum491K viewsSteve Blank traces Silicon Valley's origins to WWII electronic warfare and Cold War military funding.
Recommended books
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics (boxed set)The classic set of physics lectures, in print
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson & SussmanSICP, the classic MIT text on programming
- Cosmos, Carl SaganThe classic tour of the universe and our place in it
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas KuhnThe book that coined "paradigm shift"
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