Explore the endosymbiotic theory with the Amoeba Sisters! This theory explains the development of the eukaryote cell from prokaryote cell symbiosis. Scientific theories are also briefly defined. Expand details to see table of contents. ? This video has a handout here: Table of Contents: Intro 00:00 What is a Scientific Theory? 0:17 Endosymbiotic Theory Defined […]
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A Brief History of Everything, feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A Theory You've Never Heard Of | Michael Robinson | TEDxUniversityofHartford
The Hamitic Hypothesis was a 19th century anthropological theory that claimed that humans originated in Asia and then migrated to other regions of the world. The theory was used to explain the discovery of so-called “white races” in Africa in the late 1800s. The Hamitic Hypothesis was not simply a curiosity of anthropological science. It […]
The 2,400-year search for the atom – Theresa Doud
View full lesson: How do we know what matter is made of? The quest for the atom has been a long one, beginning 2,400 years ago with the work of a Greek philosopher and later continued by a Quaker and a few Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Theresa Doud details the history of atomic theory. Lesson by […]
Where Did The Moon Come From? – Do We Really Need the Moon? – Preview – BBC Two
Subscribe and ? to the BBC ? Watch the BBC first on iPlayer ? More on this programme: Space scientist and lunar fanatic Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores our intimate relationship with the Moon and how it was created. The debris from a huge collision of another planet on Earth formed what is now our moon, […]
Where did Earth’s water come from? – Zachary Metz
View full lesson: Water covers over 70% of the Earth, cycling from the oceans and rivers to the clouds and back again. It even makes up about 60% of our bodies. But in the rest of the solar system, liquid water is almost impossible to find. So how did our planet end up with so […]
How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease – Tien Nguyen
View full lesson: This video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous vapor. We now know that this theory is pretty ridiculous, and that diseases are caused by specific bacteria. But how did we get to this new […]
The Origin of the Flood Myth and finding an ancient Creation Myth
If you think flood myths started with the Biblical story of Noah, or the Epic of Gilgamesh, you’d be mistaken. In this video I look at a phylogenetic study about the origin of the Flood Myth, to find out where it started, and when. And in doing so I also discover a very early form […]
The wacky history of cell theory – Lauren Royal-Woods
View full lesson: Scientific discovery isn’t as simple as one good experiment. The weird and wonderful history of cell theory illuminates the twists and turns that came together to build the foundations of biology. Lesson by Lauren Royal-Woods, animation by Augenblick Studios. source
The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok)
Check out the Massey Lectures with Neil Turok: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: MinutePhysics is on Google+ – And facebook – And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute! Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: Thanks to Nima Doroud and Bruno […]