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

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: When the Moon Hits Your Eye (podcast)

Running Time:
00:07:27

What coin would just barely cover the full moon? You may be surprised. TI director (and recovering astrophysicist) Linda Shore explains how our brains distort the actual size of the moon.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 21, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):

Speaking of Music Rewind: Pauline Oliveros (podcast)

Running Time:
01:34:04

Composer and performer Pauline Oliveros has been a pioneering figure in American music for over four decades. In this intimate talk recorded at the Exploratorium on February 21, 1985, Oliveros discusses her decision to quit teaching and flee to Italy with her accordion, her appreciation of the Grateful Dead's concert sound system, and the perils of the squeezebox. She also takes audience questions and performs "Rattlesnake Mountain" live.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: April 16, 2010
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Science Teaching Tips: Find That Sound (podcast)

Running Time:
00:05:51

Take a little sound quiz with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, and learn something about how our brains locate sounds.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):

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

After Dark: Risk Everything (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:20

This April Fools’ Day After Dark event exposed people’s threshold for taking chances. For example, visitors could test their belief in the laws of physics as a bowling ball swung toward them. They could also tackle a climbing wall, try their luck at casino games, and see if they had the nerve to carry out the instructions on a card they were given.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Science
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NOAA's Okeanos Explorer: ROV Shakedown Cruise Highlights (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:41

A compilation of video clips collected in deepwater by the Little Hercules Remotely Operated Vehicle and camera platform during an ROV shakedown cruise aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer offshore Kona, Hawaii (March 2010).

Project: Voyages of Discovery: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer | Browse All

Date: March 25, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):

Science Teaching Tips: The Last Straw (podcast)

Running Time:
00:06:50

Despite my better judgment, I invite TI staff educator Eric Muller to do one more set of activities—several things you can do with soda straws.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: March 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Polynesian Navigation: The Dolphins (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:42

Sea life can sometimes serve as a marker to help navigators stay on track. Shorty Bertelmann describes how one such living marker, a pod of dolphins, helped him see what navigation is really about.

Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All

Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, HIstory