Ten Great Ideas: Wonder in Science
| The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson |
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| Wonders of Life trailer | YouTube. 3 mins | |
| Ode to a Flower | Richard Feynman’s Famous Monologue on Knowledge and Mystery, Animated. From brainpickings.org | |
| 3 Physics experiments that changed the world | Youtube. Via SciShow. 5 mins. | |
Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world |
Link | Youtube. Via TED. 10 mins. |
| The BBC's archive on Richard Feynman | Link | If you don't know who Feynman is, it's about time you found out about one of the world's greatest ever communicators of science. |
| Marie Curie on Curiosity, Wonder, and the Spirit of Adventure in Science | Link | "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty." |
| Aomawa Shields on the same theme | Link | "If I can get girls to see a piece of themselves — their hair, a foot, their face and eyes, a finger — as connected to an exploding star, maybe that connection will stay with them as they start to encounter the inevitable challenges of a science career. So they won’t turn their backs on it when things get tough." |
| David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell | Link | A now-famous animation of what happens inside a living cell. |
| White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria | Link | Youtube. 30 secs |
| Attenborough: the amazing Lyre Bird sings like a chainsaw! | Link | Youtube. Via BBC Earth. 3 mins. |
| Pendulum Wave Demonstration | Link | large-scale demonstration of the interaction between period and pendulum length, using 16 bowling balls hung from a wooden frame. Youtube. 3 mins. |
| Beauty beyond - winning astronomy photography | From the bbc.com website | |