Found 0 - 5 results of 5 programs matching keyword "optical illusions" |
Iron Science Teacher: St. Patrick's Day (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:02:13
1:02:13
In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity from a special St. Patrick's Day secret ingredient-things that are green!
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: March 17, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: st. patricks day, green, experiments, teachers, science, demonstations, making kimchi, visual illusions, taste buds, recycled materials, bending light
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: March 17, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: st. patricks day, green, experiments, teachers, science, demonstations, making kimchi, visual illusions, taste buds, recycled materials, bending light
| Real: 256K |
Light and Landscape: James Turrell (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:14:57
1:14:57
James Turrell studied optics and perceptual psychology in college, but gravitated towards art as his curiosity led him to investigate light itself. In this Webcast of a lecture, James Turrell discusses his experiences manipulating pure light and how it became his artistic medium. He reveals how this early work led him to discover Roden Crater in Arizona and to create his subsequent lifelong project of transforming the crater into an astronomical observatory.
Project: Light and Landscape | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: perception, art in nature, rosen crater, perceptual psychology, optical illusions, seeing from within, forms in light, installation artist, effect of light, luminous light works,
Project: Light and Landscape | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: perception, art in nature, rosen crater, perceptual psychology, optical illusions, seeing from within, forms in light, installation artist, effect of light, luminous light works,
| Real: 225K |
Origins: Hubble: A New View of the Universe (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:30:43
00:30:43
Join us as NASA releases the first images from the Hubble Telescope's new camera, NICMOS (the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer). We'll discuss the significance and beauty of these pictures of our galaxy with the NICMOS' Lead Scientist, Keith Noll.
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: June 5, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: infrared spectra camera, infrared astronomy, spectrometer, optical astronomy, infrared telescopes, infrared analogy with pit viper snakes,
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: June 5, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: infrared spectra camera, infrared astronomy, spectrometer, optical astronomy, infrared telescopes, infrared analogy with pit viper snakes,
| Real: 256K |
Iron Science Teacher: Compact Discs (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:54:03
0:54:03
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: compact ∂iscs!
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: June 26, 1999
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, cds, cd's, finding the center of mass, benham's disc avtivity, turntable illusions, cd spinner, frictionlessness, hovercraft, frictionless cd puck, airpuck, balloon, digital sound, how a cd works, iridescence, interference, thin films, pe
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: June 26, 1999
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, cds, cd's, finding the center of mass, benham's disc avtivity, turntable illusions, cd spinner, frictionlessness, hovercraft, frictionless cd puck, airpuck, balloon, digital sound, how a cd works, iridescence, interference, thin films, pe
| Real: 34K |
AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: Benham's Disk Exhibit (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:23:03
0:23:03
In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast, the Benham's Disk exhibit
explained by guests from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and University High School in San Francisco
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 1997
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, optical illusions, perception of color, circular motion
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 1997
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, optical illusions, perception of color, circular motion
| Real: 35K |
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