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

Science in the City: Pigeon Science (Clip)

Running Time:
00:04:15

In this program we meet Elizabeth Young, pigeon rescue expert and head of the pigeon rescue organization MickCoo (http://www.mickacoo.org), for a personal introduction to pigeons-their history, their accomplishments, their contributions to research in animal behavior/memory/learning/and how they navigate long distances-as well as their plight in the city. For more information visit: www.RescueReport.org

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: June 7, 2011
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: pigeons, san franciso, science, city, behavior, biology, navigation, memory

QuickTime: 700K

Iron Science Teacher: Pet Supplies (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:01:06

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. Tee off with this week’s “secret” ingredient-pet supplies!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: August 13, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: pet supplies, teachers, experiments, activities, dog training, canine cognition, canine sense of smell demonstration, solids and liquids, granularity, one liter soda bottle, cartesian diver snack, descartes diver activity, bouyance, air pressure, liquid pressure, sha

Real: 225K

Mathematica: David Meckel: An Inside Look at the Eames Office (Webcast)

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1:14:27

Founding Dean of the Architecture Program at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), David Meckel began his career in the Eames Office in the 1970's. Focusing on the day to day experiences of working with Charles and Ray Eames, David will portray a day in the life of the office with the images, people, and idiosyncratic pleasures that made up the rich and dynamic environment that served as the laboratory for these two great designers.

Project: Mathematica | Browse All

Date: March 27, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts

Keywords: architecture, industrial design, modern architecture, origin of the eames lounge chair design, working with ray eames, perfect color memory, working prototypes,

Real: 256K

Memory: Dr. Jonathan Schooler -- Words Get in the Way: A Tasteful Exploration (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:42:45

Can a question influence its answer? Discover the power of verbal overshadowing--ways in which words enhance or distract from different sensory memories. Dr. Schooler, Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, will arrange a variety of sense-memory experiments, including wine-tasting and jellybean-tasting!

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: December 6, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, understa

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Dr. Jonathan Schooler on Recovered Memory (Webcast)

Running Time:
2:02:21

What do you really remember? Dr. Jonathan Schooler and Dr. Elizabeth Loftus will discuss the highly controversial area of recovered memories. Dr. Schooler is Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Dr. Loftus is Professor Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: December 2, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, underst

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Robert Sapolsky on Stress and Memory: Forget It! (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:38:48

Can stress make you forget? Dr. Robert Sapolsky presents an overview of the disruptive effects of stress on memory and brain aging. Dr. Sapolsky, Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University, is a MacArthur Fellow and author of numerous articles and books.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 18, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: stress memories, cell, organism, brain, chemical, stress and memories, impact of stress, stress management, relaxation, memory training, memory stress, homeostatic balance

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Alison Gopnik: How Children Remember (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:48:57

Does your child remember the same things you do? Not necessarily. Children are as good or better than adults at remembering events, but have difficulty remembering how, when, and why they learn things. This has implications for issues from eyewitness testimony to recovered memories. Alison Gopnik is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 11, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: cognition, language development, children's theories of mind, memory in children, child development, memory in babies, human development, autobiographical memory, emotional memory

Real: 16K

Memory: Dr. Arthur Shimamura: Memory & Alzheimer's Disease (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:08:44

U.C. Berkeley Professor of Psychology Dr. Arthur Shimamura will discuss what we know about the effects of aging on human memory and its relation to Alzheimer's Disease. Find out how the brain stores and retrieves information, and learn new techniques that may help improve your memory.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 4, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: memory, arthur shimamura, aging, brain, alzheimer's disease

Real: K

West Coast Live: West Coast Live: October 10, 1998 (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:58:50

This episode of Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live radio show explores the places where science and entertainment intersect. In this broadcast: Singer-songwriter John Gorka; Bert Grant, founder of Grant's Brewery; a view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble; author of "Fisherman's Son" Michael Koepf.

Project: Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live | Browse All

Date: October 10, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science

Keywords: john gorka, folk music, memory exhibition description, art and science, radio

Real: 34K

Memory: Panorama of Exhibition (Clip)

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This 360° QTVR panorama was shot from the entrance area of the Exploratorium's Memory exhibition. It opens with a view of the Brain exhibit, in which sheep's brain dissections were performed several times each day.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: October 3, 1998
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: exhibits, memory

QuickTime: 56K


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