Found 0 - 9 results of 9 programs matching keyword " hawaiian culture" |
Science in the City: The Art and Science of Tattoos (Clip)
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Throughout history, tattoos have represented conquests, coming of age, religion, spirituality, art, and even punishment. Today, tattoos are alive and thriving as a form of personal expression. How have modern techniques changed this art form? What are best practices in tattoo creation and care? Why are tattoos permanent—and when are they not? Join us as we "talk tat" with artitsts Suzanne "Fishy" Shifflett and Tanya Wischerath of Modern Electric Tattoo in San Francisco.
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: September 28, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: tattoos, art, design, culture, tattoo artist
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: September 28, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: tattoos, art, design, culture, tattoo artist
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Polynesian Navigation: We Are All Astronomers (Clip)
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The intertwining of astronomy, Hawaiian ancestry, and traditional navigation are the subject of this video featuring astrophysicist Paul Coleman, cultural historian Koa Rice, and captain Billy Richards.
Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, History
Keywords: astronomers, stellar navigation, hawaiian culture
Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, History
Keywords: astronomers, stellar navigation, hawaiian culture
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Evidence: Chimpanzees: Culture Loss (Clip)
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Primatologist Christophe Boesch explains that declining chimpanzee populations threatens the study of chimpanzee culture.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture, habitat loss
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture, habitat loss
| Links: | Transcript (in English) | Transcript (en Español) |
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Evidence: Chimpanzee Cooperation (Clip)
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Do chimps cooperate even when they’re not related? The traditional answer is no, but primatologist Linda Vigilant explains how genetics is revising this belief.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture
| Links: | Transcript (in English) | Transcript (en Español) |
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Ice Stories: Barrow, Alaska: A Sense of Place (Clip)
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A video portrait of Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: barrow, arctic, alaska, scenic, hunting, point barrow, nuvuk, people of the arctic, inupiaq, culture
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: barrow, arctic, alaska, scenic, hunting, point barrow, nuvuk, people of the arctic, inupiaq, culture
| Links: | Big Idea: Barrow, Alaska |
Ice Stories: Whales Under Ice (Clip)
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Craig George and Glenn Sheehan explain how scientists have learned from Iñupiaq hunters to make more accurate counts of bowhead whales.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: whales, bowhead, arctic, alaska, hunters, traditional knowledge, iñupiaq, culture, ice, hunting
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: whales, bowhead, arctic, alaska, hunters, traditional knowledge, iñupiaq, culture, ice, hunting
| Links: | Big Idea: Pairing Scientific and Traditional Knowledge |
Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (Webcast)
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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
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
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: Seymour Papert Lecture: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Webcast)
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1:29:49
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Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap with America's foremost expert on kids and computers. Seymour Papert talks about the impact of the Digital Age on the family.
Project: Exploratorium Event CAM | Browse All
Date: October 23, 1996
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: digital culture, cyberculture, new rules for the new economy, dumb power, knowledge economy, information society, connected family, connectedfamily.com, children and computers,
Project: Exploratorium Event CAM | Browse All
Date: October 23, 1996
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: digital culture, cyberculture, new rules for the new economy, dumb power, knowledge economy, information society, connected family, connectedfamily.com, children and computers,
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West Coast Live: West Coast Live: December 5, 1998 (Webcast)
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This episode of Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live radio show explores the places where science and entertainment intersect. In this broadcast: Kevin Kelly of Wired Magazine; Lawrence Weschler, author of "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of Thing One Sees"; The Canadian Brass Ensemble; physics chanteuse Lynda Williams; and Jonathan Schooler with a memory wine-tasting.
Project: Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live | Browse All
Date: December 5, 1994
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: public radio show, holiday music, canadian brass, christmas music, digital culture, cyberculture, new rules for the new economy, dumb power, knowledge economy, information society, internet radio, mp3, real audio, radio training, humor, satire, maxwell's equation song
Project: Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live | Browse All
Date: December 5, 1994
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: public radio show, holiday music, canadian brass, christmas music, digital culture, cyberculture, new rules for the new economy, dumb power, knowledge economy, information society, internet radio, mp3, real audio, radio training, humor, satire, maxwell's equation song
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