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YouTube for Science?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blinded-me-with dept.

Shipud writes "The National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have partnered to set up what can best be described as a "YouTube for scientists", SciVee". Scientists can upload their research papers, accompanied by a video where they describe the work in the form of a short lecture, accompanied by a presentation. The formulaic, technical style of scientific writing, the heavy jargonization and the need for careful elaboration often renders reading papers a laborious effort. SciVee's creators hope that that the appeal of a video or audio explanation of paper will make it easier for others to more quickly grasp the concepts of a paper and make it more digestible both to colleagues and to the general public."

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  1. Good idea by JohnFluxx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This sounds like a good idea.

    I personally work on a digital hologram printer, and wouldn't mind recording a short video describing how it works etc.

    Here's an example hologram that I've done: (Yes, I'm a KDE developer as well. It's the KDE dragon, konqi.)

    http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict0044s mallernk5.jpg

    (Excuse the mess of my room)