Science Videos Search Engine 51
Rami writes "ScienceHack is a search engine for science videos. What makes ScienceHack unique is that every video is screened by a scientist or an engineer to verify the video's accuracy and quality. ScienceHack focuses on many topics including physics, chemistry and biology. If you go to YouTube to search for videos, you will get spam videos and comments and many conspiracy and low quality videos. ScienceHack has none of that. ScienceHack currently supports videos from YouTube, Google videos and Metacafe."
http://sciencehack.com/
http://sciencehack.com/
Finally what we all need, (Score:5, Funny)
Good question (Score:3, Interesting)
A good question, but as I understand it, such videos would be welcome - as long as they were accurate and of good quality. That's a somewhat sticky measuring stick, however, as what one scientist might call "simplifying", another might call "dumbing down" or just "wrong". I suspect they will not be overzealous about such screening, however.
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I want to meet... (Score:2)
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No, wait, that's right, all those people moved to Reddit.
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Be interesting to see what real moderation is like.
You know I made this awesome one liner about you been moderated troll and when I previewed the comment you had been moderated Insightful...
Thank fuck I actually previewed for once in my life.
recommended intro science videos for kids (Score:5, Informative)
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DDOS at it's finest.
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This video podcast is made available for use by persons located in Australia only. If you are not located in Australia, you are not authorised to use this podcast. The ABC grants you a licence to download these audio-visual files for your private, personal, domestic, non-commercial use only. You may not use these audio-visual files for any other purpose (including but without limitation downloading, editing, or using these files for the purpose of (a) distribution to a third party; or (b) promoting, advertising, endorsing or implying a connection with you (or any third party) and the ABC, its agents or employees). The ABC will not be liable for any loss or damage (including but without limitation any costs charged by your service provider incurred by you in receiving the download) which you may suffer as a result of or connected with the download or use of these files. Please note that qualifying educational institutions may be able to use these audio and audio-visual files in accordance with Part VA of the Copyright Act 1968 as amended. For more information, please contact Screenrights (licensing@screenrights.org).
The ABC are very supportive of having their content in as many platforms as possible. As long as you don't download it from their website. In the case of The Chasers the producers upload every episode to bit torrent every week.
After some 15 year old boy famous duped YouTube in deleting all of the chasers con [smh.com.au]
Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
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As a slashdotter, I think we all know, with every single detail, the "theory".
Peer review? (Score:4, Informative)
Given that Sciencehack is only really aiming to be a Youtube for science, maybe this doesn't really mean very much. Still, a little more openness about the process would have been encouraging.
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eg:
1) Near Death Experience gave - Using a spatula..
2) Time travel gave -- Introduction to CSS editing using Firebug | How many times the ball is passed between the white players? |
This is totally retared.. My Pegions [google.com] would pick better search results any time.!
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the purpose of carping is always to improve its standard. -Myself
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The Media (Score:1)
Re:The Media (Score:5, Interesting)
They say we get the government we deserve: I guess that also applies to our news organizations. Not that I perceive much difference between the two any longer, given the number of serious domestic issues we're facing right now that get little or no coverage in mainstream media. Or if they do get covered, they get it exactly wrong.
Back on topic, ScienceHack is an interesting idea, with some promise. I mean, wow, a site with science videos reviewed by actual scientists? Well, maybe almost scientists (grad students and so forth), but still, that's pretty cool. Granted, all scientists are not of equal caliber, but nevertheless having at least the obvious crap weeded out is a good thing for anyone interested in the subject. Certainly YouTube isn't going to bother filtering out the baloney.
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Unfortunately, this leaves publishers quoting watchdog groups and "Concerned Citizens for Whatever" (i.e. amateurs).
more links (Score:2, Informative)
A lot of very good Berkeley lectures http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ [berkeley.edu]
Lectures and science videos http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
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Something seems wrong (Score:2, Funny)
I search for "paris hilton" and got:
Size Comparison of Various Celestial Bodies [sciencehack.com]
First of all, she doesn't have a Celestial Body. My girlfriend has, Hilton has not!
Second; size? What size???
What's going on?
Partial matching (Score:4, Interesting)
At last! (Score:3, Funny)
Dr Quantum (Score:1)
Where's Bill Nye? (Score:3, Insightful)
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This site is still pretty freaking awesome though. I already lost an hour to its physics and chemistry categories.
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(I'm especially miffed at the guy who took one of the astronomy videos and replaced the music of Holst ("Jupiter") with a 50s-style western theme, calling it better music.)
I like it already (Score:2, Insightful)
Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot | Self-Replicating Repairing Robots | Acoustic Levitation Chamber | Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse | Jan Rabaey on Synthetic Biology | Jules The Robot | Turning the Place Over By Richard Wilson |
This is true intelligent design!!
No results from creationism!
PARC Forums (Score:2)
PARC Forums from the last couple years also available online here [xerox.com].
This site proves God exists (Score:1)
Not very well screened... (Score:1)
I clicked on 'Ten Dimensions' and found a video by Rob Bryanton proporting to explain them. Rob Bryanton is not a scientist but (from Wikipedia) "is a Canadian author and composer, from Regina, Saskatchewan. He is known for his first book, Imagining the Tenth Dimension. In his book, he discusses many different topics, most notably his new, simplified approach to conceiving the ten dimensions. The b
Uh oh.. (Score:1)
External solution for internal YouTube problem... (Score:1)
SciTalks.com (Score:1)
Site Down (Score:2)
This site will (Score:1)