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

Robot Sumo: International Robot Sumo Competition: More Action (webcast)

Running Time:
01:16:41

Check out the action as 10 Japanese robots battle against each other and their American counterparts, including entrants from the Bay Area and Seattle. This event was sponsored by Japanese software developer FSIABC, Inc.

Project: Robot Sumo | Browse All

Date: March 26, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Science Wire: The World Reports: Exploring Energy (webcast)

Running Time:
0:16:04

Nine Aim High students explore shadow and light, and build their own energy machines. In this webcast, the students delve into energy transference and alternative energy sources like solar cells and wind power.

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: March 10, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Try This!: Try This! With Paul Doherty and Friends: Gorazd Planinsic (webcast)

Running Time:
00:16:58

Dr. Paul Doherty scours the globe for the world's greatest science demonstrations. Here he partners with Dr. Gorazd Planinsic, frequent contributor to Physics Teacher magazine, active in international physics education, and illustrator of physics text books. Watch this webcast, follow the links to the 'recipes,' then try it yourself!

Project: Try This! With Paul Doherty and Friends | Browse All

Date: March 8, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Try This!: Try This! With Paul Doherty and Friends: Dr. Yoji Takikawa (webcast)

Running Time:
00:20:06

Dr. Paul Doherty scours the globe for the world's greatest science demonstrations. Here he partners with Dr. Yoji Takikawa of the International Christian School in Tokyo. Dr. Takikawa creates at least one new activity every month and has published over 25 books of science activities. Watch this webcast, follow the links to the 'recipes,' then try it yourself!

Project: Try This! With Paul Doherty and Friends | Browse All

Date: March 8, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Science Wire: The World Reports:The Glow Show (webcast)

Running Time:
0:40:51

Nine Aim High students explore shadows and light, and build their own energy machines over the Spring of 2001. In this webcast, the students look at things that glow in both the area of physics and the area of biology.

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: March 3, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit 2 (webcast)

Running Time:
0:16:17

In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit, as explained by a guest physicist Leon Lederman.

Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All

Date: February 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit (webcast)

Running Time:
0:29:37

In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit as explained by physicist and Nobel laureate Leon Lederman

Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All

Date: February 16, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Women's Health: Explainer Perspectives:Teen Pregnancy (webcast)

Running Time:
0:50:36

This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.

Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All

Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology

Women's Health: Explainer Perspectives: Gay Issues (webcast)

Running Time:
0:37:21

Science of Gardening: Intro to McMurdo Station, Antarctica (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:19

McMurdo Station is the American staging area for Antarctic research. At the edge of Ross Island, off the coast of the continent, a small town of workers feed, house, prepare, supply, fuel, transport, and protect those who conduct field research throughout Antarctica and the surrounding waters. The community numbers 1,000 in the summer and 200 in the winter. And the community has a garden. In these conditions

Project: Accidental Scientist: Science of Gardening | Browse All

Date: January 8, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Geology/Earth Science