How humans, birds, and insects breathe differently [animated gif]

Different ways of breathing
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Animated maps of US Civil War battles

Animated US Civil War maps

The US Civil War Trust presents a collection of animated maps that bring battles of the American Civil War to life, complete with troop movement animations, narratives, video, and more. There are animated maps of the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chickamauga.

How small is an atom? [Animation]

This TED education video aims to illustrates the size of an atom.

TED launched TED for Education (TED-Ed)

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) launched a new section focused on education issues: TED-Ed.

For a start, TED-Ed added 15 videos to their YouTube channel. Some of them enhance the talk through animations, for example see "How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries" by MythBusters' Adam Savage below.

Chronozoom: A dynamic view of history, the universe, and everything

Chronozoom is an innovative dynamic animation of the history of the universe.


In their own words:
"ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences using the story of Big History to easily understand all this information. This project has been funded and supported by Microsoft Research Connections in collaboration with University California at Berkeley and Moscow State University.
You can browse through history on ChronoZoom to find data in the form of articles, images, video, sound, and other multimedia. ChronoZoom links a wealth of information from five major regimes that unifies all historical knowledge collectively known as Big History."


Try out ChronoZoom here.

Science Made Simple Animations

Science made simple are a series of short videos explaining complex scientific ideas. This video discusses quantum physics, genetic modification, and superconductors.

Science Made Simple from Jacob Slack on Vimeo.

Found here: Science Made Simple on Vimeo

Carl Sagans' Pale Blue Dot Animation

Pale Blue Dot - Animation from Ehdubya on Vimeo.

Found here: Pale Blue Dot - Animation on Vimeo

Mitochondria Animation

Beautiful animation of mitochondria working in a cell from Harvard BioVision.

Powering the Cell: Mitochondria « XVIVO

How to feed the world (animation)

Informative animation about how to feed the world.



How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo.

Directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the « Bon appétit » exhibition, aimed mainly at the kids aged 9 to 14.
written by : Sabrina Massen & Denis van Waerebeke
[found on Likecool]