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History of Science
The Breakfast Club (TED talk by Laura Snyder) |
Myths
Bulls in a China Shop |
Volcanoes, Earthquakes, & Tsunami
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NASA Simulation of the Creation of the Earth's Moon |
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Plosky Tolbachik Russia, Lava Flow (dormant 40 years, erupted Nov. 2012) |
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Fast Lava Flow, Guatemala |
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Indonesian Tsunami 2004 |
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Japan Tsunami 2011 |
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Haiti Earthquake Pancaked building 2010 |
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Pyroclastic flows on Mt Merapi Java Indonesia 2010 |
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Mount Ruepehu, New Zealand 2007 Lahar |
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Soufriere Hills Volcano Montserrat Nov. 2, 2010 |
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Iceland Volcano 2010 |
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Mount Etna Eruption May 29, 2021 |
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Mount Etna Eruption July 7, 2021 |
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Haiti Earthquake - Seconds after first quake - 2010 |
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Aftermath of Pinatubo at Subic Bay Phillipines June 1991 |
Oceanography & Hydrology
Soldier Crabs at Low Tide |
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Argo floats (3,000 buoys sampling the ocean properties surface and below) |
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Argo Floats cost $10K each |
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International Buoy Network |
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Origins of Oceans |
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Climate Change |
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Video of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Dec 2011-Dec 2012 |
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Capillary Waves |
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Capillary Waves up close |
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Annual Arctic Sea ice 1979-2020 Chart |
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Animation of Disappearing Arctic Sea ice |
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Why are Phytoplankton so Important |
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Plankton. The Most Vital Organisms on Earth |
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Antarctic Bottom Water Creation |
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DART (Buoys to detect Tsunami) |
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Bioluminescence on Camera (National Geographic) |
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Ostracods under the microscope |
Meteorology
Haboob Lubbock TX Oct 17, 2011 |
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Haboob Lubbock Texas January 30, 2021 |
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Grade School Children launch a weather balloon |
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GOES-16 Geosynchronous Weather Satelite (16 channels) |
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A year of weather (2020) from GOES satellite |
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Hurricane Ida (2021) - Geosynchronous Satellite GOES East |
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Geosynchronous Weather Satelite GOES-17 Lightning monitor |
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GOES Occluded front video (2018) |
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Several Okla. students died at Plaza Towers elementary, but no casualties at Briarwood in Moore Oklahoma. 5/20/2013 |
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Moore Oklahoma Tornado GOES Image May 20, 2013 |
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The first 10 minutes of the Moore EF5 Tornado (5/20/2013) |
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Auroras over Finland 2011 |
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August & October 2011 Space Station views of the Earth City lights, lightning, and Aurora |
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Hurricane Michael Oct. 12, 2018 Mexico Beach Florida |
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Category 5 Hurricane Michael Oct 12, 2018 |
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Hurricane Sally slams into Gulf Shores, Alabama - Sept 16, 2020 |
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Hurricane Wilma Video - Miami Beach, Florida - Jan 26, 2010 |
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High altitude lightning - Red sprites and Blue sprites explained |
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Climate change and hurricanes -short summary |
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Climate change and Hurricanes |
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Hurricanes and climate Change (California) |
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Arctic Amplification |
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Arctic Amplification (Earth Now - with graphics) |
Astronomy
NASA 3-D video made of a seemingly empty region of the universe |
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NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center |
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Sunspot Number Prediction |
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Aurora prediction |
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Aurora activity from NOAA Spacecraft |
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Michigan Tech Aurora page |
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Foucault Pendulum Houston Texas |
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Comparison of our planets with the Sun and Stars |
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Simulation of the creation of the solar system |
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Formation of the planets |
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Changes in the Earth's orbit and rotational axis |
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Moon Rocks at NASA-JSC Bldg 31 |
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Moon rock facility in Building 31 at NASA-JSC |
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Dr. Jack Schmitt talks about collecting rocks on the Moon |
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History of the Moon |
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DAVINCI mission to Venus |
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Veritas and Davinci missions to Venus |
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Gravity Assist orbital changes |
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Gravity Assist explained using a physical gravity model |
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Precession of the axis of rotation-Gyroscope |
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Cartoon about problems with spacecraft going near the speed of light |
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Europa Clipper 2024 mission to Europa |
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Stardust and Deep Impact |
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What is a Comet? |
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Kuiper belt Object Arrokoth |
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Supernova SN2014J discovered in Jan. 2014 in Ursa Major |
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Solar Storm in Feb. 2014
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Spectral lines demo |
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Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea Overview |
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Keck Telescope Research |
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The Very Large Telescope in Chile (mute the sound) |
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Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile |
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Extremely Large Telescope in Chile |
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James Webb space Telescope Launch and Deployment
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Demonstration of Doppler effect with Train whistle
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Ceres encounter by Dawn Spacecraft (largest asteroid) |
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New Horizons spacecraft encounters Pluto |
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Big Bang simulation (Argonne Natl. Lab.) |
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LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) |
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LIGO The first Observation of Gravitational Waves |
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Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulation |
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What happens when galaxies collide |
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Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulation (annoying sound) |
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How Hubble has seen the effects of dark matter |
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy with NASA's WFIRST |
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Elliptical Galaxies versus spiral galaxies |
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Elliptical Galaxies |
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Star clusters - open and globular clusters |
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