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)

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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

Science in the City: The Making of a Bell (Clip)

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00:12:40

For our first episode in a new season of "Science in the City," we explore the creation of a bell for the Exploratorium’s new home at Pier 15. Artist Nick Diphillipo has been designing and casting bells and other objects for over thirty years. He teaches bell making at The Crucible in Oakland, California, as well as other foundry-related subjects.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: April 10, 2013
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: bell, bell casting, foundry, molds, wax, bronze, metal, nick diphillipo, the crucible, metal arts, craft, making, science in the city, exploratorium

Return to Mars: Mars Update: March 2013 (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:30:00

In February 2013, Curiosity drilled into a rock called "John Klein" and then analyzed the sample material with its on-board scientific instruments. On March 12, NASA announced that the analyses show conditions on Mars were once favorable for life! Join us to learn more about this breakthrough discovery.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: March 22, 2013
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): astronomy/Space Science, General Science

Keywords: mars, space, habitable environment, chemical ingredients for life, chemical energy for microbes

Return to Mars: Mars Update: Feb. 2013 (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:00:30

On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: February 20, 2013
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science

Keywords: mars, space, curiosity

Miscellaneous: The Explainers Pop-Up Science around the City (Clip)

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00:01:32

Ongoing through March 31, 2013 | Times and locations TBA Location: Multiple locations in San Francisco; for specific locations, follow @theexplainers on Twitter. In the months before our grand opening, orange-vested Explainers will bring the Exploratorium experience to unexpected spots around San Francisco. These weekly site-specific activities will be designed to make you notice and engage with the world around you, and to shake you out of your normal, everyday routines. Explainers will help you notice clouds at Aquatic Park, find north without a compass at Ghirardelli Square, experience our mobile Camera Obscura in Union Square, and challenge your sense of perception out in the neighborhoods. In January locations will vary; in February and March, look for those orange vests along the Embarcadero, in front of Pier 15. Music by Pat Spurgeon

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: February 11, 2013
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: exploratorium, science, explainers, museum, physics, san francisco, city, pop up, pier 15, noticing, engagement

Return to Mars: Curiosity's Secret Discovery (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:30:00

Curiosity has made a discovery! What could it be? Why are JPL scientists keeping this breaking news classified for now? Exploratorium host and Mars enthusiast Robyn Higdon and Ron Hipshman will give you a refresher on Curiosity's SAM instrument and will discuss the process that scientists at JPL must endure before releasing this ground breaking discovery to the public.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: November 27, 2012
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science

Keywords: mars, jpl, mars rover, curiosity, sam, jet propulsion laboratory, nasa, landing, spacecraft, robot, geology, space, msl, mars science laboratory, chemcam, vaporizing ray, laser

Exploratorium History: Shaping the Exploratorium (Clip)

Running Time:
00:28:00

In this historical video from 1996, which was originally made for a museum floor installation, we learn about both the Palace of Fine Arts and the roots of the Exploratorium. This piece mixes footage from films in the Exploratorium's collection and interviews with historians, architects, and museum staff.

Project: History of the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: November 6, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics, Art, History

Keywords: palace of fine arts, history, 1915, panama pacific exposition, bernard maybeck, architecture, public space, exploratorium, exhibits, exhibit development, art, artists, scientists, frank oppenheimer

Exploratorium History: Live at Exploratorium Compilation (1997) (Clip)

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00:08:22

In 1997, the Exploratorium opened the Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio on the museum floor, linking Internet users to live museum events and to live events at remote locations. In this video you can explore the early days of webcasting at the Exploratorium.

Project: History of the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: November 1, 2012
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: exploratorium, webcast, history, space, biology, live

Miscellaneous: Impressions of Life Sciences at the Exploratorium (Clip)

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00:02:48

Riotously colorful bacteria and mobile mosses meet carnivorous plants and rotting carcasses in this impressionistic journey through the Life Sciences area at the Exploratorium.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: October 18, 2012
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): life sciences/biology

Keywords: exploratorium, life science, life sciences, biology, exhibits, exhibit, biology exhibit, biology exhibits, bugs, termites, decay, microscope, microscopes


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