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Exhibit Services: Aeolian Landscape (Clip)
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Aeolian Landscape is an exhibit in which a miniature wind-swept desert landscape is recreated by an electric fan and finely ground sand that mimics the process of wind picking up and depositing small particles. Visitors can change the direction of the fan, influencing the shape of the dunes.
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: art, aeolian, exhibit, ned kahn, wind, sand, dune, simulation
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: art, aeolian, exhibit, ned kahn, wind, sand, dune, simulation
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Exhibit Services: Balancing Ball (Clip)
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At the Balancing Ball exhibit, a plastic beach ball floats mysteriously several feet above a large plastic cone. Upon closer inspection, the ball is found to be floating on a stream of air blowing out of the cone; visitors interact with the ball, changing its position in relation to the air flow.
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: ball, air, airflow, float, stream, exhibit
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: ball, air, airflow, float, stream, exhibit
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Exhibit Services: Chaotic Pendulum (Clip)
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The Chaotic Pendulum exhibit contains a deceptively simple set of pendulums in a steel and Plexiglas case. The visitor twists a protruding knob, expecting the resulting motion to be fairly predictable. But the device's motion is chaotic, extremely complicated and long-lived.
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: pendulum, chaos, motion
Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All
Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics
Keywords: pendulum, chaos, motion
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Seeing Gallery: Virtual Unreality: Scalable Cities (Clip)
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Artist Sheldon Brown creates an urban/suburban/rural environment in which the visitor literally "paints" the flying landscape with highways, buildings, and automobiles. This exhibit was part of the Virtual Unreality exhibition.
Project: Seeing Gallery | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science
Keywords: exhibit, virtual, virtual environment, interactive, virtual unrealtity
Project: Seeing Gallery | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science
Keywords: exhibit, virtual, virtual environment, interactive, virtual unrealtity
| Links: | Press Release: Virtual Unreality Interactive Digital Artworks |
Solar Eclipse: Live from Turkey: More Images (Clip)
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Live program from Side, Turkey Images from the Total Solar Eclipse that took place on March 28-29, 2006.
Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
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Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All
Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
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Ice Stories: Ice Is Cool (Clip)
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Penn State University glaciologist Dr. Richard Alley explains why ice is cool.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 14, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: ice, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, glaciology, geophysics, snow
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 14, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: ice, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, glaciology, geophysics, snow
Ice Stories: Shedding Light on Dark Energy (Clip)
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What is dark energy? Cosmologist Rocky Kolb explains how the South Pole Telescope will help us understand the properties and nature of this mysterious force.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 7, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, Physics
Keywords: dark energy, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, universe, space, time, expanding, south pole telescope, galaxy clusters, gravity
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 7, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, Physics
Keywords: dark energy, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, universe, space, time, expanding, south pole telescope, galaxy clusters, gravity
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Ice Stories: Christina Riesselman Explains Her Work on ANDRILL (Clip)
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Christina, a geologist from Stanford University, investigates climate history by scouring sediment samples for diatoms, microscopic marine creatures that lived long ago in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: andrill, antarctica, biography, christina reisselman, sediment cores, mcmurdo
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: andrill, antarctica, biography, christina reisselman, sediment cores, mcmurdo
| QuickTime: 246K |
Ice Stories: Nadine Krupinski on Her Research on Antarctic Ice Sheets (Clip)
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Nadine, a glaciology graduate student from UC Santa Cruz, spent four weeks on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet investigating ice sheets and global climate change.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: antarctica, wais, west antarctic ice sheet, ice sheets, ice dynamics
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: antarctica, wais, west antarctic ice sheet, ice sheets, ice dynamics
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Ice Stories: Slawek Tulaczyk on Why He Investigates Ice Sheet Behavior (Clip)
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Dr. Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from UC Santa Cruz, studies the lakes, floods, and ice quakes that occur under the giant glaciers of Antarctica. He is among only 200 scientists world-wide who study ice sheet dynamics and its role in climate change.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: antarctica, wais, west antarctic ice sheet, ice sheets, ice dynamics, lakes, floods, glacialogy, glaciers, climate change
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 26, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: antarctica, wais, west antarctic ice sheet, ice sheets, ice dynamics, lakes, floods, glacialogy, glaciers, climate change
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