The Theory of Everything?
Looks like the theory of etch-a-sketch*. I’m buggered if I understand it.
*or maybe Spirograph. Or that one with the colourful threads and the boards with holes in.
Hip-Hip-Hooray for DNA
I don’t know how sincere this is – it sounds like it might’ve been heavily influenced by Monty Python – but it’s catchy and I like it. Peter Weatherall has a few if these on YouTube, so go and have a look.
Another catchy one (this time about photosynthesis) after the jump.
Cell Respiration Animation – keeping it simple
Click here for a decent animation of the process of cellular respiration.
Earth: The Power of the Planet
Thanks to bogstandardcomp again for the idea for this one. Being out of the country, I miss a lot of the new shows.
The BBC series ‘Earth: The Power of the Planet’ looks like good craic. Scottish presenters always make things more interesting, I think (I’m not Scottish). This little clip of methane deposits throwing flames from ice is the only one I could find via google video so far. There are, however, more clips on the BBC Website.
Manky Mobiles
A nice news story about bacteria on cellphones. Must have been a slow week in Albuquerque.
ACD Labs: Chemsketch – free modelling software
It’s not really a video, but you can build molecular models and make them move around on the screen, so it just about qualifies. It takes a wee while to get used to, but is worth the effort.
Demo videos here. Manuals here.
DP Bio teachers can use it to satisfy the modeling software stipulation of the 4/PSOW form. Enjoy!
EDIT – there is a shareware ($24.95) gif to flv encoder available here. I haven’t found any free software that can convert gif animations to flv files, so if anyone can help out, please let us know.
I have put a simple Chemsketch tutorial on making and animating glycine (word 2007 doc and SMART Board notebook file) in the downloads box on the right of this blog.
EDIT AGAIN:
The joys of Chemsketch are almost limitless. Here is proof: 
Exploscience.com – Bangs on a Budget
Click on the link above to see a great collection of Chemistry demos on a budget. Must have been a lot of work, and the authors deserve the $24.95 for their ‘Bangs, Flashes and Explosions’ manual. I’ll be downloading one for Christmas…
Videos are wmv and quicktime, but right-clicks have been disabled – it looks like a DVD is on sale (maybe this comes with the lab manual? Not sure).
Thanks again to bogstandardcomp from the TES Boards for the link.
World AIDS Day next week: 1st December.
Avert.org has a load of great resources for school, aimed at engaging students rather than preaching at them. Well worth a look.
Here’s a nice video from last year’s AIDS Day, entitled ‘Time to Deliver’.
3D Body Models from Global 3B Scientific
Models you can manipulate – and the labels come in a range of languages, so ideal fo
r international students trying to learn the content in a foreign language.
You can zoom in and out, highlight different sections and turn it around.
i-Biology 