Current favorite video clips:
- A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I’m Wrong — an incredible video from Veritasium! I’ve added this project (and the $10,000 challenge mentioned at the end) to my list of Ongoing Student Research Opportunities
- How gravity works — best explanation I have yet seen (thanks to Jon Perry for finding this)
- Saturn V launch, how it ACTUALLY SOUNDED! (Careful with your speakers. For a quieter, narrated slow-motion version, see here)
Top source for science news:
Quick reference:
Video blogs (regular blogs below):
- 3blue1brown (Grant Sanderson)
- AsapScience (Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown)
- Cool Worlds (David Kipping)
- Doodling in Math Class (Vi Hart)
- Dr. Becky (Becky Smethurst)
- Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell)
- Launch Pad Astronomy (TU’s very own Chris Ready)
- Minute Physics (Henry Reich)
- Mythbusters (Jamie Hyneman, Grant Imahara†, Adam Savage et al)
- Numberphile (Brady Haran)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern)
- Smarter Every Day (Destin Sandlin)
- Stand-up Maths (Matthew Parker)
- Up and Atom (Jade Tan-Holmes)
- Veritasium (Derek Muller)
- Vintage Space (Amy Shira Teitel)
- Vsauce (Michael Stevens et al)
Podcasts:
- The Joy of x (Steven Strogatz)
Blogs:
- Antimatter (Cormac O’Rafferty)
- BackRe(Action) (Sabine Hossenfelder)
- Brain Pickings (Maria Popova)
- Brian Koberlein
- Fantastic Flashbacks
- Hisaaki Shinkai (GR links)
- John Baez (see esp. the Crackpot Index)
- Insoluble Pancake (Henry McCracken)
- NASA Watch (Keith Cowling)
- Not Even Wrong (Peter Woit)
- Of Particular Significance (Matt Strassler)
- Phillip Helbig
- Preposterous Universe (Sean Carroll)
- Resonaances (Adam Falkowski)
- Skulls in the Stars (Greg Gbur)
- Systems and Society (Jack Mitcham)
- TrekCore – The Original Series
- We Are the Mutants
- Ned Wright
Cartoons:
- The Far Side (Gary Larson)
- Sidney Harris
- xkcd (Randall Munroe)
Organizations:
If you like the above, and know of others that you think I’ll like too, send me your suggestions!