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

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

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00:03:06

Since 1969, the Exploratorium has set the standard for 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

After Dark: The Tibetan View of the Mind with Venerable Geshe Lhakdor (Clip)

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00:32:46

Discover the Tibetan Buddhist view of the mind with Geshe Lhakdor. He discusses how awareness and sensory information (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch) are perceived through different forms of consciousness, and how Buddhist practitioners investigate their inner mental experiences to better understand their experience of the world around them.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: May 9, 2012
Format: Lecture
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: geshe lhakdor, science for monks, buddhism, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, five senses, tibet, mind

Iron Science Teacher: Pet Supplies (Webcast)

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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

Iron Science Teacher: Salt (Webcast)

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1:09:46

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-salt!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 23, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: teachers, experiments, salt shaker, center of gravity, balance, table salt, sodium chloride crsytal, exponentials, diapers, osmosis, solutions, perception of taste, dna strands, cell membrane, cell structure, dna extraction

Real: 225K

Iron Science Teacher: Halloween Edition: Plastic Bags (Webcast)

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00:55:27

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 secret ingredient. In this special Halloween edition, today's secret ingredient is: Plastic Bags!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: October 31, 2003
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: vaccuum sealing, air pressure, perception of touch, tactile sense, bubble bomb activity, carbon dioxide production, acids and bases, 5-tone whirlies, quantum music, corrugated plastic pipes, resonance, sound waves, bagpipes, air speed

Real: 256K

Light and Landscape: James Turrell (Webcast)

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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,

Real: 225K

Origins: Cold Spring Harbor: Dr. Eric Lander (Webcast)

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00:22:30

Dr. Eric Lander, a leading figure in the Human Genome Project and director of the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, tells us about the recently completed mouse genome and how the study of other genomes gives key information about human genetics and evolution.

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

Date: March 2, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: phenotypes, genetics, mathematical neurobiology, definition of gene, genomics, genome meeting, junk dna, repeating dna, regulatory sequences, parasitic dna, sense of smell in ancestors, smell receptor genes, degenrations of genes, mouse genome project, mutations, mouse

Real: 256K

Science Wire: Sound Advice (Webcast)

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12:25:46

Why do many things sound different underwater? How are echoes made? Can you feel or see sound? Join us as we delve into the mysteries of sound. This webcast will feature an Aim High student demonstrating how to make a membranophone; Exploratorium physicist Dr. Paul Doherty modeling sound with ringing aluminum rods, corrugated plastic whirlies, and a slinky; and Marco Jordan, lead educator in the Exploratorium's Outreach program, demonstrating sound science with a "whine" glass and a singing bowl.

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: May 4, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: human hearing, ear physiology, sense of hearing, perception of sound, slinky science, compression waves, acoustics, oscilloscope, pitch, 5-tone whirly, whirly tube, whirly hose, echo tube exhibit, echo tube floor exhibit, sound wavelengths, reflection of sound waves, r

Real: 256K

Origins: Antarctica: Dry Valleys 2 with Paul (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:37:24

Join the Origins team as they travel to Antarctica. We sent Mary, Noel, Paul, and Julie to explore scientific wonders from McMurdo to the Pole. Learn all about the extreme science being conducted at the South Pole in a daily dispatch from Terra Australis Incognita!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: glacier research, glacier change, commonwealth glacier, mcmurdo dry valleys, glacier movements, glacier melting, glacier size, ice flows, taylor dry valley, glaciers in the desert, glaciers flow, wind erosion, katabatic wind, weather in antartica, life at extreme tempe

Real: 80K

Origins: Antarctica: Xmas in McMurdo (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:38:23

Join the Origins team as they travel to Antarctica. We sent Mary, Noel, Paul, and Julie to explore scientific wonders from McMurdo to the Pole. Learn all about the extreme science being conducted at the South Pole in a daily dispatch from Terra Australis Incognita!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: December 26, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: ventifacts, renewable energy in antarctica, solar power in antarctica, emergency shelters in antarctica, snowboarding in antarctica, human peace sign, extreme environments, wildlife in antartica, life in antarctica,

Real: 80K


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