Video of the Week #43 May 16th, 2012: From: Paralyzed Patient Swills Coffee by Issuing Thought Commands to a Robot by Gary Stix at Observations. Source: BrainGate collaboration This week’s video is from the ‘BrainGate collaboration’ of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Brown University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the German Aerospace Center. [...]

Video of the Week #42 May 8th, 2012: From: Where the Wild Types Are – A Biology Parody Dedicated to Maurice Sendak by Carin Bondar at PsiVid. Source: Joshua Meisel This week’s video was created by MIT biology student Joshua Meisel to promote a Halloween party in 2009, but it’s really too great a production [...]

Video of the Week #41 May 3rd, 2012 From: Saturn Is Alive, No CGI by Caleb A. Scharf at Life, Unbounded. Source: Sander van den Berg The Netherlands-based director and editor Sander van den Berg has put together a stunning series of Cassini still images to produce “Outer Space.” The short film covers a remarkable [...]

Video of the Week #40 April 25th, 2012 From: A New World on the Outside of a Raleigh Museum by Scott Huler at Plugged In. Source: Scott Huler Last week, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh opened its new wing, the Nature Research Center. A prominent fixture of the new building is The [...]

Video of the Week #39 April 19th, 2012 From: Quantum Casimir Effect Inspires Indie Filmmakers by Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics. Source: Casimir Effect This is a rough cut from an independent short film-in-progress project called Casimir Effect — the brainchild of UK filmmakers Gabriel Strange and Lydia Wood, and starring Torchwood‘s Gareth David [...]

Video of the Week #38 April 12th, 2012 From: Want to run a successful Kickstarter campaign? Start with cinematic genius… by Carin Bondar at PsiVid. Source: “The Symbol: Wall Lizards of the Pityusic Archipelago” by Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin at Day’s Edge Productions. The week’s video is for the current kickstarter campaign “The Symbol: [...]

Video of the Week #37 April 4th, 2012 From: Scientific American Blogs Officially Pop Culture Icon! by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid Source: The Onion Time travel is tricky business. Scientists seem to always be wringing their hands over the potential implications of time travel. That is, if you believe the movies, and The Onion News [...]

Video of the Week #36 March 28th, 2012 From: Some Serious Evolutionary Laughs For Your Friday Afternoon by Carin Bondar at PsiVid Source: Beatrice the Biologist This short video by Beatrice the Biologist is simply too spectacular to ignore. Evolution VS Creationism – shall we debate? Or shall we just eat yogurt? We love the [...]

Video of the Week #35 March 22th, 2012 From: More Science Films, Please! U.S.C. Science Film Competition…and Others by Casey Rentz at the Guest Blog . Source: Kimberly Laux, Simon Wilches Castro, Scott MacDonald, Anna Drubich and Laura Cechanowicz from USC. This week’s video garnered an honorable mention at the USC Science Film competition this [...]

Video of the Week #34 March 14th, 2012 From: Brain-Machine Interfaces in Fact and Fiction by Michael Moyer at Observations. Source: Neurowear This week’s video is from Michael Moyer’s post on brain-machine interfaces. This kind of technology can be used for just about anything – gaming, cursor control, brain training and brain-to-brain communication, to name [...]