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

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)

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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

Iron Science Teacher: Feminine Hygiene Products (webcast)

Running Time:
0:50:08

Watch as Exploratorium staff and local teachers compete for the title of Iron Sscience Teacher. Each contestant has ten minutes to make a science lesson out of a secret ingredient. Today's ingredient is related to our Women's Health Exhibition-feminine hygiene products!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: December 9, 2000
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Origins: CERN: The Quest for the Higgs Boson (webcast)

Running Time:
0:55:19

What does it mean to find the Higgs Boson at CERN? Hear how this elusive particle could change our understanding of physics.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 19, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Origins: CERN: Antimatter: The Cool Tour (webcast)

Running Time:
0:58:28

The Exploratorium's Senior Scientist Tom Humphrey takes you around the Antiproton Decelerator, from beam pipes to antihydrogen traps.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 18, 2000
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Origins: CERN: The Antimatter Factory (webcast)

Running Time:
1:09:59

Follow CERN's Mission Impossible team as they race against the clock to collect all they need to bring antihydrogen back to CERN's webcast headquarters.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 18, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Origins: CERN: Exotic Atoms and Antihydrogen: Three Cool Experiments in the AD, Part I (webcast)

Running Time:
0:41:28

Scientists at CERN in Switzerland explain to the Exploratorium's San Francisco audience why preparing for antimatter experiments is like arranging a marriage.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 12, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Origins: CERN: Exotic Atoms and Antihydrogen:Three Cool Experiments in the AD, Part II (webcast)

Running Time:
0:43:07

Making antihydrogen is no easy matter. Researchers at CERN show the Exploratorium's Melissa Alexander and Tom Humphrey where positrons live and how they keep them as cold as deep space.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 12, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Origins: CERN: The Heart of the Matter: A Look Inside CERN (webcast)

Running Time:
0:29:09

What is antimatter and why are scientists studying it? How is the world's largest particle accelerator constructed? The Exploratorium's Rob Semper talks about how science is done at CERN and answers questions about antimatter from the Exploratorium's Webcast audience.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: November 11, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics