Browsing 80 - 90 results of 95 programs for category - Popular Culture |
Origins: Antarctica: Science Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson (author of Antarctica) (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:37:50
0:37:50
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 29, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: ecological sustainability, nsf antarctic artists and writers program, life in extreme invironments, life in isolated environments, effects of extreme environments, effects of extreme isolation, hostile environmnets,
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 29, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: ecological sustainability, nsf antarctic artists and writers program, life in extreme invironments, life in isolated environments, effects of extreme environments, effects of extreme isolation, hostile environmnets,
| Real: 80K |
Origins: Antarctica: Live Christmas Greetings (Webcast)
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0:18:45
0:18:45
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 23, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: christmas cookies in antartica, holidiys, christmas at the south pole, christmas around mcmurdo station, antarctic christmas
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 23, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: christmas cookies in antartica, holidiys, christmas at the south pole, christmas around mcmurdo station, antarctic christmas
| Real: 80K |
Explainer Perspectives: The Gamer's Club (Webcast)
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0:29:49
0:29:49
Learn all about video games: genres, history, and current news. This live Webcast was conceived, written, directed, and produced entirely by High School Explainers at the Exploratorium.
Project: Explainer Perspectives | Browse All
Date: August 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: history of video games, video game history,
Project: Explainer Perspectives | Browse All
Date: August 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: history of video games, video game history,
| Real: 80K |
Explainer Perspectives: Explanime: Anime (Webcast)
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0:25:23
0:25:23
What is anime? Anime is Japanese for animation. You've probably seen anime before, but didn't realize it. Cartoons from the '80s such as Thundercats, Voltron, and even Starblazers were all anime. On Saturday, August 18th, 2001 the Exploratorium hosted its first anime Webcast. We featured an Anime Trivia Show that tested the skills of three brave souls. Got anime?
Project: Explainer Perspectives | Browse All
Date: August 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: japanese animation, anime game show
Project: Explainer Perspectives | Browse All
Date: August 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: japanese animation, anime game show
| Real: 80K |
Women's Health: Explainer Perspectives:Teen Pregnancy (Webcast)
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0:50:36
0:50:36
This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: women's health issues, teens, teenagers, youth, explainers, pregnany, planned parenthood, birth control, peer pressure, prevention, sex education, unplanned, communication, lifestyles, counseling
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: women's health issues, teens, teenagers, youth, explainers, pregnany, planned parenthood, birth control, peer pressure, prevention, sex education, unplanned, communication, lifestyles, counseling
| Real: 35K |
Women's Health: Explainer Perspectives: Gay Issues (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:37:21
0:37:21
This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: communication, self image, human sexuality, homophobia, queer bashing, teens, terenagers, explainers, peer pressure, lifestyles, coming out of the closet, hate crimes, counseling, gay issues,
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: January 27, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology
Keywords: communication, self image, human sexuality, homophobia, queer bashing, teens, terenagers, explainers, peer pressure, lifestyles, coming out of the closet, hate crimes, counseling, gay issues,
| Real: 35K |
Memory: Dr. Jonathan Schooler -- Words Get in the Way: A Tasteful Exploration (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:42:45
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
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)
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2:02:21
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
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
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
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
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
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 |
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