This one takes a personal twist, as a couple of weeks ago I was stricken with a case of campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter jejuni. This video explains what the bacteria is, what it does (oh god it makes you sick) and how to avoid getting it into your system:
I don’t think I’ve got Guillain-Barré Syndrome yet…
[tags]campylobacter jejuni, guillain-barre syndrome, gastrointestinal bacteria, illness, chicken, health[/tags]
This week’s Weekly Science Video comes courtesy NASA. This is the second in a series produced to educate people about GLAST, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, which is due to launch on June 5.
This video discusses gamma-rays, which I’ve discussed before in the gamma-ray burst context.
This video was brought to my attention by Phil Plait, who’s the first talking head in the video.
[tags]astronomy, gamma-ray, gamma-ray burst, phil plait, GRB, GLAST, NASA, space[/tags]
One from the National Center for Science Education this week, explaining how the amazingly complex human eye evolved.
Brian Cox is known as a “rock star physicist”. Given he was in two bands, Dare and D:Ream, and is now a particle physicist, the moniker fits. These days he’s works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, where they’re planning on smacking protons together at incredibly high velocities to see what comes out. Particle physicists are hoping what comes out is the Higgs boson, which is one of the particles predicted by the Standard Model but has never been seen.
In this talk, Dr. Cox explains all this in eloquent fashion. He was invited to give this presentation at the 2008 TED Conference.
[tags]brian cox, large hadron collider, higgs boson, ted, atlas experiment, particle physics, science[/tags]
That’s right, it’s time for a new series on good old canspice.org: Friday Education Video!
First, learn about the elements:
And since this is the inaugural WFEV, you get a free learning about the nations of the world!
Okay, they’re both a little out of date. Exercise for the student: spot the changed countries in the second video!
[tags]youtube, tom lehrer, elements, animaniacs, geography[/tags]