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Science Videos Search Engine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-mentos-and-coke-count-as-science-yet dept.

Rami writes "ScienceHack is a search engine for science videos. What makes ScienceHack unique is that every video is screened by a scientist or an engineer to verify the video's accuracy and quality. ScienceHack focuses on many topics including physics, chemistry and biology. If you go to YouTube to search for videos, you will get spam videos and comments and many conspiracy and low quality videos. ScienceHack has none of that. ScienceHack currently supports videos from YouTube, Google videos and Metacafe."
http://sciencehack.com/

3 of 51 comments (clear)

  1. recommended intro science videos for kids by artifex2004 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I suggest videos from Professor Julius Sumner Miller.

  2. Peer review? by Christianson · · Score: 4, Informative
    There's nothing on the site, as far as I can see, that gives any details about how they select the scientists who are going to moderate the videos. The closest I can find is their blog, which suggests that their criterion, however, they find them, is just that they be at least a current undergraduate student in a science-related discipline.

    Given that Sciencehack is only really aiming to be a Youtube for science, maybe this doesn't really mean very much. Still, a little more openness about the process would have been encouraging.

  3. more links by kunzy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some more links:
    A lot of very good Berkeley lectures http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
    Lectures and science videos http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/