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MAKE at the Exploratorium:  Making Hyperbolic Crochet with Margaret Wertheim (Webcast)
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00:27:55
It's geometry! It's knitting! It's—hyperbolic crochet! Artist and science writer Margaret Wertheim shows you how to represent a hyperbolic plane using crochet hooks and yarn. Beginning with a simple crochet chain, learn how to create a geometric shape with a constant negative curvature just by adding stitches.

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Date: July 14, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art

Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, crochet, coral reefs, math, hyperbolic, iff

Links: Learn more about Margaret Wertheim and The Institute for Figuring

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MAKE at the Exploratorium:  Making BlinkyBugs with Ken Murphy (Webcast)
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00:33:42
Tinkerer, programmer, and musician Ken Murphy shows how to build electromechanical "bugs" built from scavenged materials and powered with a single coin-cell battery. When the Blinkybug's wire antennae detect motion from air currents or vibrations, the bug comes to life, with its LED eyes blinking in rhythmic patterns.

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Date: July 7, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, leds, blinkybug

Links: Learn more about Ken Murphy and blinkybugs

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Science from the Poles:  Chris Mooney on the Politics of Climate Change (Webcast)
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00:37:06
Join us as we chat with Chris Mooney, Washington correspondent for Seed Magazine and author of Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming and The Republican War on Science. His blog can be found at http://scienceblogs.com/intersection.

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Date: December 13, 2006
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): General Science, Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: climate change, chris mooney, seed magazine, global warming, politics, hurricanes

Links: Chris Mooney Blog

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Iron Science Teacher:  Milk (Webcast)
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1:11:41
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: Milk!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 15, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: acids and bases, curdling milk, making cheese, surface tension, convection currents, blue sky activity, scattering, total internal reflection, ice cream, comets, make a comet activity


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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

Keywords: color, light and color, ping pong ball, film can, film cannister, colored leds, mixing colors, led light activity, mixing colors to make white light, density column, mineral oil, soda bottle, cartesian diver snack, descartes diver activity, bouyancy, air pressure, liqu


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