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

Miscellaneous: Exploratorium: Changing the Way the World Learns (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:06

For the past forty years, the Exploratorium has set the standard in hands-on, inquiry-based education. See how our new Pier 15 home, with its new exhibits and expanded resources, is helping us achieve our mission: to change the way the world learns.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: April 17, 2013
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics, Art

Keywords: exploratorium, pier 15, education, science, art, human perception, physics, biology

Miscellaneous: In Conversation with E.O. WIlson (Clip)

Running Time:
00:49:00

Edward O. Wilson has revolutionized science and inspired the public more often than any other living biologist. Now he is blending his pioneer work on ants with a new perspective on human development to propose a radical reframing of how evolution works. Dr. Wilson visited the Exploratorium recently and spoke to staff and a group of invited students.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: May 3, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, general science

Keywords: e.o. wilson, biologist, longnow foundation, harvard, teaching, evolution, scientist, biodiversity, ants, science, human social behavior, social biology, edward o. wilson, pulitzer

Evidence: The Talking Gene (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:42

Is a single gene, FOXP2, the secret to human speech? Researchers discuss the genetic underpinnings of speech and language.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: October 26, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Keywords: human speech, foxp2

Links:	Transcript (in English)
	Transcript (en Español)

Evidence: How Do You Find a Fossil? (Clip)

Running Time:
00:01:31

Anthropologist Katerina Harvati explains how scientists from various disciplines work together to find fossilized human remains.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 26, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Keywords: human fossils

Links:	Transcript (in English)
	Transcript (en Español)

Evidence: Why Have a Fossil Cast Collection? (Clip)

Running Time:
00:01:18

Anthropologist Katerina Harvati explains the importance of cast collections to the study of human evolution.

Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All

Date: August 26, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science

Keywords: human fossils, human evolution

Links:	Transcript (in English)
	Transcript (en Español)

Doctor Atomic: The Opera Singer and the Physicist (Podcast)

Running Time:
1:17:34

How do opera singers sing loud enough to be heard over an orchestra? Can an opera singer's voice really break a wine glass? What's the difference between a baritone and a soprano? Discover the answers to these questions—and more!—in this presentation for families. Join physicist and composer Dr. Brian Holmes and San Francisco Opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald to explore how the art and science of singing combine in opera.

Project: Doctor Atomic | Browse All

Date: October 8, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Everyday Science

Keywords: human vocal chords, science of singing, physics of singing, physics of opera, physiology of vocal sounds, vocal projection, projecting your voice, human vocal folds, opera physicist, science of opera, vocal frequency, vocal resonance, vocal tract, articulation, vocali

Real: 33K

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Iron Science Teacher: Halloween Edition: Bones (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:13:04

Watch as Exploratorium staff and local teachers compete for the title of Iron Science Teacher. Each contestant has 10 minutes to make a science lesson out of a science ingredient. This is a Halloween edition of Iron Science Teacher, and today's secret ingredient is: Bones!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: October 29, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: halloween, bones, resonance, pitch, secret bells activity, hearing, ear physiology, human ear deomonstration, hammer, anvil, stirrup, animal bones, preserving bones, baking soda, osteology, owl pellets

Real: 225K

Iron Science Teacher: Carbohydrates (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:01:08

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- carbohydrates!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 2, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: teachers, experiments, demos, carbohydrates, human digestive system, air pressure, ballistics, force and motion, peeps science, science of peeps, model of the atmoshpere on mars, model of the atmoshpere on venus,

Real: 225K

Origins: Cold Spring Harbor: Dr. Francis Collins (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:20:25

Dr. Francis Collins is the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which is responsible for coordinating the government-sponsored effort to map and sequence the entire human genome, considered by many as one of the most important scientific undertakings of our time. Dr. Collins is a physician and geneticist whose own work led to the identification of the genes for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, and Huntington's disease. In this Webcast, Dr. Collins explains the different strategies for finding disease genes, the competition between public and private efforts to decode the human genome, and the next steps for the Human Genome Project, now that the first accurate gene maps have been created.

Project: Origins: Unwinding DNA at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Browse All

Date: March 1, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: disease genes, dna sequence variation, completion of the human genome project, dna genome sequence of other animals, comparison of dna genome sequencing, evolution, comparing genomes, conflict of religion and science, moral values, ethical decisions, interent tech

Real: 256K


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