For the last few months I've been watching and enjoying a lot of educational YouTube videos produced by the Australian independent film-maker and video journalist, Brady Haran. These are short videos about computers, mathematics, physics, chemistry, language, philosophy, and other topics.

It appears Brady has moved to the University of Nottingham in the UK, and many of his videos are produced with the assistance of faculty from that institution.

Perhaps many of the regular visitors and contributors to DonationCoder are familiar with these videos, but I don't see any references to them in the forums and thought they might be of interest.

Computerphile         
Numberphile      
Sixty Symbols
Periodic Table of Videos
Deep Sky
Test Tube
Backstage Science
Words of the World   
BibleDex
My Favourite Scientist      
Foodskey
PhilosophyFile
PsyFile

More about Brady here: http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/here-are-my-channels.html and here:  http://bradyharan.com/

Well...that sure ate up an hour pretty quickly! :o  I think I'm gonna have to stay away from that site.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos on science and mathematics-related subjects. Most of these have been made by Australian-born video journalist and film-maker Brady Haran - many in conjunction with scientists and mathematicians at the University of Nottingham.

Brady Haran

This morning I watched one of the videos on his Test Tube web site.

The video is about a breakthrough in the field of "atomic switches" by physicist Phil Moriarity and his team, but what I found interesting and important was Professor Moriarity's discussion about the absolute requirement for peer review in the scientific process.  This discussion starts at about the 8:43 point in the video.

I work in an industry where opposition groups bring forth so-called "research" or "evidence" that has not undergone this peer review process, and don't seem to understand why our whole scientific process depends on it.