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

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00:05:00

Take a stroll in Golden Gate Park at dusk and if you’re lucky, you’ll hear a sound perhaps unexpected: the hooting of wild owls. Jessie Bushell of the San Francisco Zoo debunks some common myths about owls while introducing us to several rescued owls currently living at the zoo—from a 3-ounce northern saw-whet owl that was hit by a snowmobile to a 10-pound Eurasian eagle owl confiscated from a smuggler.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: April 12, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Science in the City: Journey to the Farallones (clip)

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00:04:07

Twenty-seven miles beyond the Golden Gate, the craggy Farallon Islands have been home to fur-seal hunters from Russia, a gold-rush-era egg business, and even a nuclear waste dump. Today they’re home to 250,000 sea birds, not to mention seals, sea lions, whales, and sharks. What makes these stark-looking islands so attractive to wildlife?

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: January 26, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Science of Cooking: Fowl Science: Talking Turkey (webcast)

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1:00:29

Join us as we talk turkey with food expert and author Harold McGee. Why does a turkey continue to cook after it is out of the oven? How can you be sure to thoroughly cook the dark meat without drying out the white meat? Is stuffing really a good idea? How do you make the skin golden?

Project: Accidental Scientist: Science of Cooking | Browse All

Date: November 22, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Chemistry

Origins: Las Cuevas: Smiling Whiteflies (webcast)

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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

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

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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