MetaFilter posts tagged with flash and science

Star Stories and the Nobel Prize

ozomatli — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:27:27 -0800

Star Stories explains the life and death of stars using a multimedia approach that incorporates images, animation, video and text. From the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Don't miss out on the other cool games . One of the games has been posted before, but Star Stories is hot off of the presses.

Duelity - Creationism/evolution 2.0

filmgeek — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:07:10 -0800

Duelity - the beginning in two parts The Vancover Film School does a really cool visual retelling of creation. The 'biblical' version with a science edge. The 'evolution' version with a biblical edge. And you can watch them both at the same time!

See how they sparkle like a lure

greatgefilte — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:12:36 -0800

Bioluminescence singalong and other almost-Friday-Flash-goodness from OLogy, the American Museum of Natural History's site for kids and kids at heart. Make a DNA bracelet, investigate the Inca, and lots more.

Life-size blue whale

homunculus — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:10:44 -0800

Life-size blue whale. A Flash project from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. And in other news: Secret Language of Whales Revealed! [Via MammalFilter.]

High Speed Slow Motion Video Gallery

loquacious — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:52:57 -0800

Please now enjoy this ginormous gallery of slow motion videos from a high speed digital camera.

Sources: Personal Opinion.

klangklangston — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:56:38 -0800

We need to get Stephen Hawking an AskMe membership. Stephen Hawking asks the Yahoo public how the human race is going to survive. Yahoo staff are excited. But the answers? Well, let's just say that there may be more utility in eating tweens after the nuclear apocalypse than listening to their ideas. To balance the stupid, Hawking has several of his lectures online. And there's great stuff on PBS's Stephen Hawking's Universe (though it's aimed at providing a basic understanding of astrophysics). Or, for a more animated view MC Hawking's (sometimes clumsy) "What We Need More of Is Science. (Previous mefi hawking here, here [where he seems to be answering his later question], here [where he presents another view on how humans will survive], and here.)

Take that Intelligent Design - It's flash so it must be true

pithy comment — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:21:54 -0800

Evolution timeline (Embedded .swf). This animated story of life since about 13,700,000,000 shows everything from the big bang to the formation of the earth and the development of bacteria and other organisms to the ascent of man and humans effect on the earth. Other work discussed one year ago yesterday, what an evolution! (The animation is pretty large, you may have to scroll your screen, or just open the .swf directly)

ARTnatomy

Gator — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:50:30 -0800

ARTnatomy: Anatomical Basis of Facial Expression Learning Tool. See how all the different muscles in your face work. Flash interface; via Drawn!

Nobel Prize Games

OmieWise — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:46:14 -0800

Games and Simulations at the Noble Prize website. See the right sidebar for a complete list of what's available.

Bill Nye for Grown-Ups

pithy comment — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:06:36 -0800

The Eyes of Nye is "Bill Nye the Science Guy" for adults, with topics like "Cloning," "Pseudoscience," and "The Evolution of Sex" with its montage of happily fornicating animals. The topics are more serious but the humor is still there. The show's web site has video clips and extra information related to each episode. [both links use Flash]

View the universe in 3d

Fozzie — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:49:24 -0800

Ever have trouble visualizing how the solar system is put together, how the orbits work, how everything is positioned relative to everything else? This site helps you see how we think it all fits together.

The Physics Evolution

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:43:56 -0800

The Physics Evolution - a flash based history from the Institute of Physics in London. Clickable maps with timelines and short biographies of the main figures. It's a bit superficial, but a lot of fun.

SymmetryLab

gramschmidt — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:01:57 -0800

Machine by SymmetryLab: fixed points, spinners, pistons, elastics, and connectors. Dig the frictionless world.

SymmetryLab's other stuff is noteworthy as well.

Each of us a cell of awareness

Wolfdog — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:55:01 -0800

The mitochondrion, the Krebs cycle and other cell biology animations. Flash.

How do you go to the bathroom in space?

achmorrison — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:10:20 -0800

How do you go to the bathroom in space? One of the questions answered on NASA's Brain Bites page.

taz — Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:27:26 -0800

A professor of vision science at MIT understands that life isn't just black and white, even though we often see it that way. This amazing illusion proves it, and these slick, fast-loading, Flash demonstrations of lightness perception show how it's done. (My favorite is the "Koffka Ring".) White paper here, for deeper background.