I've been watching a bunch of science/physics/etc videos on youtube lately, and so many of them are filled with long stretches of the video with the camera focused on a drab person droning on about the subject. So watching this video was nice, in that it was all about the content, to the point, and packed full with visuals. Thanks.
What's curious is how our perspectives diverged in this small comment thread. I'm wondering if it's due to how people process information differently. For instance, I'm highly visual, synesthetic, kinesthetic. I have a hard time listening to people talk for long lengths because of how my brain works. Thus the video you suggested, while it seemed related according to how your mind works, it was not related due to how my mind works. Did you get a sense of that? What's your viewpoint on this? I'm nerdy and ponderous, so you don't have to reply. I'm merely curious.
I think we're just on different definitions of visuals. Mine was "lots of images that tell a story, rather than arguing a proof or hammering out the details", and yours was likely "animations of 3d structures showing a scene". My mistake? Try #2: The Protein Data Bank has molecule of the month. This month's is a bit unspectacular, but previously they've done some cool exhibits like how Ebola's seven genes form the virus If you like that, the author / artist, David Goodsell, does a lot more in the same vein: Website, Book
I know what you mean, those turn me off in less than a sentence and then I turn them off. It's like being forced back into college stadium lectures. Here are a few sites with interesting science news/videos that I have had a lot of success with in my class. http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/ (I LOVE these videos)(favorites from my classes: 12345 http://www.nytimes.com/video/science http://education.usgs.gov/videos.html (USGS has lots of interesting stuff)
I once got told to shut up in Chemistry class because of this. I'd been reading books on quantum mechanics on my own, and so when the chemistry teacher presented the Niels-Bohr illustration of the atom on the overhead screen, I asked how it related to the quantum mechanics view of the atom, did the atom actually look like the illustration she'd provided, and she told me to shut up and stop asking questions.
Wow, that sucks :( What a crappy teacher. It's one of my favorite things when a student has enough interest in my class to learn about it outside of school and then share it with me. I love it when they bring in crazy new stuff to talk about. Granted we sometimes double-check with a quick google search, but it always generates interesting discussions either way.