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Science in the City: The Art and Science of Tattoos (Clip)
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Throughout history, tattoos have represented conquests, coming of age, religion, spirituality, art, and even punishment. Today, tattoos are alive and thriving as a form of personal expression. How have modern techniques changed this art form? What are best practices in tattoo creation and care? Why are tattoos permanent—and when are they not? Join us as we "talk tat" with artitsts Suzanne "Fishy" Shifflett and Tanya Wischerath of Modern Electric Tattoo in San Francisco.
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: September 28, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: tattoos, art, design, culture, tattoo artist
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: September 28, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: tattoos, art, design, culture, tattoo artist
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Polynesian Navigation: We Are All Astronomers (Clip)
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The intertwining of astronomy, Hawaiian ancestry, and traditional navigation are the subject of this video featuring astrophysicist Paul Coleman, cultural historian Koa Rice, and captain Billy Richards.
Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, History
Keywords: astronomers, stellar navigation, hawaiian culture
Project: Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation | Browse All
Date: March 23, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, History
Keywords: astronomers, stellar navigation, hawaiian culture
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Evidence: Chimpanzees: Culture Loss (Clip)
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Primatologist Christophe Boesch explains that declining chimpanzee populations threatens the study of chimpanzee culture.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture, habitat loss
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture, habitat loss
| Links: | Transcript (in English) | Transcript (en Español) |
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Evidence: Chimpanzee Cooperation (Clip)
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Do chimps cooperate even when they’re not related? The traditional answer is no, but primatologist Linda Vigilant explains how genetics is revising this belief.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: chimpanzee, chimpanzee culture
| Links: | Transcript (in English) | Transcript (en Español) |
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Mind: Dr. Temple Grandin Lectures on Autism and the Animal Mind (Clip)
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Author and animal scientist Dr. Grandin shares her insights on ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), visual thinking, and human and animal minds. Dr. Grandin, herself autistic, believes the autistic person's capacity to "see the actual things themselves" places autistic individuals in a unique position to understand the ways animals think.
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: January 17, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: temple grandin, mind lecture series, autism, asperberger's, asd, visual thinking, animal behavior, external stimuli
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: January 17, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: temple grandin, mind lecture series, autism, asperberger's, asd, visual thinking, animal behavior, external stimuli
Ice Stories: Barrow, Alaska: A Sense of Place (Clip)
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A video portrait of Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: barrow, arctic, alaska, scenic, hunting, point barrow, nuvuk, people of the arctic, inupiaq, culture
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: barrow, arctic, alaska, scenic, hunting, point barrow, nuvuk, people of the arctic, inupiaq, culture
| Links: | Big Idea: Barrow, Alaska |
Ice Stories: Whales Under Ice (Clip)
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Craig George and Glenn Sheehan explain how scientists have learned from Iñupiaq hunters to make more accurate counts of bowhead whales.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: whales, bowhead, arctic, alaska, hunters, traditional knowledge, iñupiaq, culture, ice, hunting
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: whales, bowhead, arctic, alaska, hunters, traditional knowledge, iñupiaq, culture, ice, hunting
| Links: | Big Idea: Pairing Scientific and Traditional Knowledge |
Iron Science Teacher: St. Patrick's Day (Webcast)
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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
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Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (Webcast)
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What is visual literacy--and who is literate? Join guest lecturer James Elkins in an evening of commentary on the many ways we "read" the visual world and assign meaning to what we see.
Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
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Origins: Antarctica: Antarctica: Mt. Erubus 2 (Webcast)
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Check in with Noel Wanner and Paul Doherty as they tell us more about their visit to the active volcano Mt. Erebus.
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 9, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: mcmurdo station, volcanoes, fang camp summit of mt. erebus, mount erebus, mountain climbing, temperature of antarctica, lower erubus hut, gases of mt. erebus, weather on mt. erebus, visual description of antartica, perception of smell in antartica, cold temperatur
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 9, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: mcmurdo station, volcanoes, fang camp summit of mt. erebus, mount erebus, mountain climbing, temperature of antarctica, lower erubus hut, gases of mt. erebus, weather on mt. erebus, visual description of antartica, perception of smell in antartica, cold temperatur
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