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Science Out Loud

An original web series hosted and cowritten by MIT students on everything from the physics of skydiving to the biochemistry of bodily functions. The hosts take the traditional concepts taught in middle and high school science, engineering, and math classes and puts them in a context completely outside the classroom. In these twenty episodes, the gamut of hosts and personalities who will take viewers into labs, rivers, and the sky.

Glowing star shining light on a planet. Caption: That tells you there may be a planet around that star.

A humanoid robot holding a drill. Caption: to continuously pay attention to his surroundings

Squid with a white body speckled in reddish brown. The color of the head matches the color of the speckles on the body. Caption: His brain has total control over what his skin is doing.

Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.

Woman in an aviator hat with goggles smiles at camera as she rests 1 hand on the propeller of a small plane.

A man dropping a ball. Caption: potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy

Woman wrapped in a blanket. Caption: you'd have cloak that would be invisible.

Person holding a twisted strip of material. Caption: This shape is called a Möbius strip.

A person skydiving. Caption: but all those tiny forces make a big force called drag,

Long grasses and shrubs. Caption: More than 100,000 natural compounds occur in plants,

Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.

Closeup aerial view of a board with flippers and raised attachments creating lanes and obstacles. A person off camera gestures toward board with 1 hand and holds a ball in the other.

Illustration of a fish with toxicity entering from the water and through the mouth. Caption: which accumulate more toxin from the smaller fish they eat

Two conductors attached to objects. Caption: but conducts electricity when it's very hot.

Illustration of a net-like structure. Protein. Mucus is a meshwork of proteins

Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,

Illustration of teeth in the bottom jaw with braces on the surface of the teeth. The two teeth on either end of the jaw are shaded darker. Caption: that lets the new PDL hold teeth in the new position.

Magnified view of cells. Caption: to allow liver cells to grow into functional livers.

Computer generated image of a sphere composed of twisted interlocking tubes of various colors. Caption: Fractal research is changing fields such as biology.