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

Science in the City: Electric Guitar (Clip)

Running Time:
00:09:30

There’s no mistaking the distinct voice—whether throbbing, singing, or screaming—of an electric guitar. How does one instrument produce so many different sounds? We visit with Bay Area electric guitarists Ava Mendoza and Henry Kaiser, plus Subway Guitars’ very own Fat Dog, to explore the components of this versatile instrument, getting down to pick-ups, “pots,” and pedals that make it sing.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: May 8, 2013
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: science, exploratorium, city, san francisco, guitar, electric guitar, music, ava mendoza, henry kaiser, fat dog, subway guitars, body, pickup, dynamics, tones, distortion

Exploratorium at the Piers: Exploratorium at Pier 15: Green Machine (Clip)

Running Time:
00:05:21

Catch a sneak peak of our new nine-acre campus at Piers 15/17 with Building Operations Manager Chuck Mignacco. Learn about features of the building that will help us achieve our goal of becoming the largest net-zero energy use museum in the United States. Come see for yourself—doors open at Pier 15 on April 17, 2013.

Project: Exploratorium at the Piers | Browse All

Date: February 6, 2013
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: green technology, chuck mignacco, net-zero energy

Return to Mars: Investigating Curiosity's Robotic Arm (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:45:00

In today's webcast, Exploratorium hosts Ron Hipschman and Robyn Higdon will look at the tools and technology on the robotic arm of the Mars rover, Curiosity. What are some of the scientific instruments and capabilities of NASA's newest rover on Mars?

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 12, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science

Keywords: mars, jpl, mars rover, curiosity, jet propulsion laboratory, nasa, landing, spacecraft, robot, geology, space, msl, mars science laboratory, tools, technology

Miscellaneous: Cardburg! (Clip)

Running Time:
02:50

Josh Short from the Cardboard Institute of Technology walks us through their latest installation, Subterrain, on the Exploratorium floor!

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: March 16, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: cardburg, cardboard, cardboard institute of technology, subterrain, exploratorium learning studio, cit, making, materials, building, group build, tinkering studio, installation

Links:	CIT website

Driven: Extraordinarily Splendid (Slideshow)

Running Time:
03:45

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, is an encyclopedic museum holding many splendid, unique, and puzzling treasures. It's a carnival of delights and ideas, many of them outside of the commonly held canons of fact and accomplishment. It slips around the question, 'is it real?', refusing to pit fact against fiction or art against data, instead weaving it all together into something more mysterious and joyful. In this first of two segments on the museum, curator David Wilson welcomes us into his worlds of inspiration, and parts the curtain to reveal how this impossible place indeed exists.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: December 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: david wilson, museum of jurassic technology

Driven: The Avalanche of Ideas (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:00

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, is an encyclopedic museum holding many splendid, unique, and puzzling treasures. It's a carnival of delights and ideas, many of them outside of the commonly held canons of fact and accomplishment. It slips around the question, 'is it real?', refusing to pit fact against fiction or art against data, instead weaving it all together into something more mysterious and joyful. In this second of two segments on the museum, curator David Wilson welcomes us into his worlds of inspiration, and parts the curtain to reveal how this impossible place indeed exists.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: December 19, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: david wilson, museum of jurassic technology, driven, inspiration

Driven: This World Unfolding (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:00

Biologist Kristina Yu and exhibit developer Denise King share their love for the mighty (and mightily underappreciated) microorganism.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: October 8, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: microscope, imaging station, cell, bacteria

After Dark: Resolution:Media Artist Ken Murphy (Clip)

Running Time:
00:04:23

Ken Murphy, creator of A History of the Sky— a time-lapse visualization that will span an entire year—talks about his project during the After Dark event, Resolution.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: January 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: ken murphy, history of the sky, time-lapse, installation, clouds, sky, video, weather, technology, art

Links:

Ken Murphy's Website

Ice Stories: Imaging Antarctica's Climate History: The Scientific Process (Clip)

Running Time:
00:04:16

Dr. Marvin Speece, professor of geophysical engineering at Montana Tech and co-Principal Investigator of the Offshore New Harbor Project, discusses how their expedition collects scientific data.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: December 9, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: antarctica, geology, process, geophysics, climate history, climate change, explosives, sediments, seismic imaging

Links:

Dispatch: Our Scientific Process

Windows Media: 1128K

QuickTime: 1128K

Ancient Writings Revealed: The Evidence Project Presents: Ancient Writings Revealed! (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:58:32

Watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years! Archimedes was one of the world's greatest scientific and mathematical minds. His thoughts were inscribed on goatskin parchment, but the letters and diagrams were scraped off and written over by Greek monks in the Middle Ages. Now, using an intense x-ray beam generated at Stanford University's linear accelerator, some of the original Greek text will be revealed for the first time in the modern world.

Project: Evidence: Ancient Writings Revealed | Browse All

Date: August 4, 2006
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): History, Technology

Keywords: archimedes, palimpsest, slac, evidence, monks, greek writings, texts, imaging, x-ray, synchatron radiation, walters art museum, neil calder, will noel, roger eastman, abagail quant, uwe bergmann

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Windows Media: 225K 600K


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