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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Topics include earth sciences, nature, science, technology, history, space, the human body, sports, politics, philosophy, and more. Specialties include World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, The Cold War, political figures, industrialization, culture, Civil Rights, transportation, aviation, and space.

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What’s So Interesting About the Geology of Sedona, Arizona?

Science and Steamteam

Rising and falling sea levels transported sediment, further building up layers which eventually formed sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate rock. At that time, it was at the bottom of the sea, accumulating the shell remains of unimaginable numbers of sea creatures. Time and pressure transformed them into ever-increasing layers of limestone.

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

Futurum

Responsible AI research and development can lead to advancements in various fields, including transportation, education and sustainability.” AI could optimise our transport systems by reducing congestion, planning out delivery routes for goods vehicles, and controlling self-driving cars.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

Futurum

For example, as transportation networks play a key role in moving goods and materials from suppliers to customers, Zach hopes to integrate models of global transportation networks into his models of global supply chain networks. This will be a quantum leap forward in terms of realism,” he says.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

For instance, I have collaborated with people from a huge range of disciplines to develop algorithms for detecting animals in underwater videos, exploring how crooked teeth change the perception of faces, and monitoring moisture transport in laminated wood. This cross-disciplinary work often yields unexpected benefits, sometimes years later.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. It also facilitates the internal transport of organelles and other structures present within the cell.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Ultimately an economic system is based on a large network of transactions. One person wants to get a cookie.