EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Fabricated Realities: Exploratorium in Second Life (clip)

Running Time:
00:13:35

Made by the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, this "machinima"--a film made entirely in a virtual world, highlights the exhibits and recent events in Second Life on the Exploratorium Island and 'Sploland sims.

Project: Fabricated Realities: Virtual Worlds, Mixed and Augmented Reality | Browse All

Date: March 17, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science, Chemistry, Physics

Miscellaneous: Chaotic Pendulum (clip)

Running Time:
00:05:00

A short video created about an iconic exhibit at the Exploratorium, Ned Kahn's Chaotic Pendulum. An apparently simple set of pendulums is given an initial twist. Intuition says that the resulting motion of this simple system should be, if not simple, at least predictable. Intuition doesn't work with this device though, and its motion is an extremely complicated, and somewhat whimsical, twisting and turning that defies the predictive powers of physics.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: February 24, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Science at Burning Man: Double Rainbows (clip)

Running Time:
00:00:59

Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty explains a double rainbow sighting at Burning Man 2010!

Project: Science at Burning Man | Browse All

Date: September 10, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Iron Science Teacher: Triangles (webcast)

Running Time:
00:55:52

This week's secret ingredient was triangles! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 16, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Iron Science Teacher: Leaves (webcast)

Running Time:
00:37:59

This week's secret ingredient was leaves! This week's secret ingredient was triangles! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 9, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Iron Science Teacher: Lightbulbs (webcast)

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This week's secret ingredient was lightbulbs! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 2, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Iron Science Teacher: Oil Redux (webcast)

Running Time:
00:37:00

Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher." The Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher competition showcases science teachers as they devise demonstrations around a particular "secret" ingredient—and today's secret ingredient was oil!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: June 25, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Science Teaching Tips: Revising the Rainbow (podcast)

Running Time:
00:07:04

What is indigo anyway? Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells the story behind ROYGBIV, and how he'd like to change that standard palette.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 28, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Science Teaching Tips: Follow the Bouncing Ball (podcast)

Running Time:
00:09:29

Have you ever really listened to a ball bounce? Exploratorium staff physicist Thomas Humphrey describes the elegant mathematics of a bouncing ball.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Geometry Playground: Exhibition Preview (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:22

In June, 2010, the Exploratorium will launch it's newest exhibition, Geometry Playground. Check out this teaser clip and come back for more on June 25th, 2010.

Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All

Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Exhibit
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics