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

Science Wire: Biometrics: The Whirl Reports (webcast)

Running Time:
00:09:53

Our team of middle school students from the Aim High program investigates new technologies that use our unique physical traits as tools for identification. The Whirl Reports looks at fingerprints.

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: November 5, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Science Wire: Biometrics: Vox Unlocks (webcast)

Running Time:
00:11:16

Our team of middle school students from the Aim High program investigates new technologies that use our unique physical traits as tools for identification. Vox Unlocks tunes into voice recognition

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: November 5, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Origins: Las Cuevas: History in a Jar (webcast)

Running Time:
0:47:31

We explore behind the scenes in the "tank room" of the Darwin Centre, where thousands of biological specimens up to 300 years old are kept.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: November 2, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Origins: Las Cuevas: Smiling Whiteflies (webcast)

Running Time:
00:34:32

Look behind the scenes into the process of scientific research and the people who do it - in the tropical Central American country of Belize. In this series of Webcasts, we visited a field research station located in the remote Chiquibul forests of the mountains of Belize. Find out what white flies have to smile about with entomologist Andrew Polaszek.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: November 1, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Origins: Las Cuevas: Bats! (webcast)

Running Time:
0:41:59

Bat curator Richard Harbord and photographer Frank Greenaway explore questions about our furry flying friends in Belize. We also talk with bat experts in London and at the Exploratorium.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: October 31, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science, Biology

Origins: Las Cuevas: Welcome to the Jungle: Day 2 (webcast)

Running Time:
00:29:21

Look behind the scenes into the process of scientific research and the people who do it - in the tropical Central American country of Belize. In this series of Webcasts, we visited a field research station located in the remote Chiquibul forests of the mountains of Belize. See why science in the remote jungle of the Chaquibul forest of Belize can feel like an adventure movie.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: October 27, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Origins: Las Cuevas: Welcome to the Jungle: Day 1 (webcast)

Running Time:
00:29:42

Look behind the scenes into the process of scientific research and the people who do it - in the tropical Central American country of Belize. In this series of Webcasts, we visited a field research station located in the remote Chiquibul forests of the mountains of Belize. See why science in the remote jungle of the Chaquibul forest of Belize can feel like an adventure movie.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: October 26, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Origins: CERN: Scientists Make Antimatter! (webcast)

Running Time:
00:25:16

Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and learned what's next.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: September 20, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Iron Science Teacher: Zip-Lock Plastic Bags (webcast)

Running Time:
00:36:24

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Zip-Lock Plastic Bags

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: August 29, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry

Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (webcast)

Running Time:
1:24:22

What is visual literacy--and who is literate? Join guest lecturer James Elkins in an evening of commentary on the many ways we "read" the visual world and assign meaning to what we see.

Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts