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Sparkling
Science: Champagne
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Learn how sparkling wine is made, what makes
it different from still wine, and where all those little bubbles
come from! We reveal how to open a bottle without touching the
cork, as well as the best way to keep the bubbles in the bubbly.
Join our special guests, Stanford chemistry professor Dick Zare,
and French enologist Michel Salgues, winemaker at Roederer Estates
in California, as we explore the science of tiny bubbles. |
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Turkey:
Getting to the Meat of the Matter
November 20, 2002
Join us as we talk turkey with food expert and author Harold
McGee. Why does a turkey continue to cook after it is out of
the oven? How can you be sure to thoroughly cook the dark meat
without drying out the white meat? Is stuffing really a good
idea? |
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From
Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity
Oct. 26, 2002 -
Nov. 10, 2002
Log
on with us as we look behind the scenes into the process of
scientific research and the people who do it - this time from
two locations - London, England, and the tropical Central American
country of Belize. In this series of Webcasts, we visited a
field research station located in the remote Chiquibul forests
of the mountains of Belize. We also visited the vast collections
of the Natural History Museum of London, home of over 70 million
specimens and some of the most modern instruments for looking
at life and its variations. |
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Biometrics:
Eye-D, The Whirl Reports, and Vox Unlocks
October 5, 2002
You see it on TV and in the movies. Now
it's becoming a reality. Biometrics, using physical identifiers
like your retina, your fingerprints, even your voice to unlock
doors, access bank accounts, and ensure workplace security.
Explore retinal scans, fingerprinting, and voice verification
with our team of middle school students from the Aim High Program. |
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Scientists
Make Antimatter!
September
20, 2002
Cold
anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for
the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about
this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and
learned what's next. |
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Visual
Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins
August 21, 2002
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.
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Preparing
for Mars: FIDO in the Desert
August 19, 2002
NASA is gearing up for the 2004 landing of the Mars Exploration
Rovers, or MER. During the first weeks of August, NASA engineers
and scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena
tested their remote operation procedures using a rover called
FIDO (field integrated design & operations rover). Our remote
team traveled to the desert test site, and to JPL to find
out how scientists and engineers use these tests to prepare
themselves for their upcoming red-planet adventure. What did
they learn in the desert? What do they hope to learn on Mars?
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Iron
Science Teacher
July 12,19. August
2,9, 2002
Watch
as Exploratorium staff and local teachers compete for the
title of Iron Science Teacher. Each contestant has ten minutes
to make a science lesson out of a secret ingredient.
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In
Moving Color AIM High Summer 2002
This summer 24 kids from middle school
campuses in San Francisco participated in the Aim High Program
at the Exploratorium's Educational Outreach Institute. They
learned about eledctricity and fluid motion. Each student
was given the opportunity to build thier own "exhibit" that
illustrated the concepts that they studied.
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Partial
Solar Eclipse
June 10, 2002
Join
us from the front porch of the Exploratorium as we check out
today's partial solar eclipse. Learn safe viewing practices,
then go outside and watch for yourself! |
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A
New View of the Universe
June 5, 2002
Last March,
the astronauts of Space Shuttle Columbia spent 5 days servicing
the Hubble Space Telescope. They installed a new camera (Advanced
Camera for Survery) and a new cooling system to revitalize
NICMOS (the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer).
The operations were successful and the new data has resulted
in beautiful new pictures of our galaxy. This morning NASA
released the first images from NICMOS. Join us as we discuss
the significance, and beauty, of these pictures with the NICMOS'
Lead Scientist, Keith Noll.
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Echo- Logic
May 18, 2002
How do our ears
work? Can we communicate without words? How do whales communicate
under water? Why don't bats slam into trees as they fly? Middle
school students will interview Exploratorium Educator Ken
Finn on guitar, Biologist Dr. Karen Kalumuck on sonar, and
special surprise guests! |
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Sound
Advice
May 4, 2002 Noon
(PDT)
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 a Aim High student demonstrating
how to make a membranophone; Exploratorium physicist Dr. Paul
Doherty using ringing aluminum rods, corrugated plastic whirlies,
and a slinky to model sound; and Marco Jordan, lead educator
in the Exploratorium's Outreach program, demonstrating sound
science with a "whine" glass and a singing bowl. |
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David
Meckel: An Inside Look at the Eames Office
March 27, 2002
Founding Dean of the Architecture Program at California College
of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), David Meckel began his career in
the Eames Office in the 1970's. Focusing on the day to day
experiences of working with Charles and Ray Eames, David will
portray a day in the life of the office with the images, people,
and idiosyncratic pleasures that made up the rich and dynamic
environment that served as the laboratory for these two great
designers. |
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Space
Walks to Revitalize the Hubble
March 1-9, 2002
Even
an advanced instrument like the Hubble Space Telescope needs
maintenance. Each day we spoke with scientists, engineers
and astronauts involved in the current servicing mission.
We found out what it takes to maintain this specialized instrument,
explore the advances in vision promised by the new Advanced
Camera for Survey and found out where Hubble will be pointed
in the future. We also showed footage from space and explained
what the astronauts did during each of the EVA space walks.
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Steve
Cabella and Joseph Rosa: Reflections on Eames Design
February 27, 2002
In a broad-ranging look at the impact of Eames design on contemporary
culture, Steve Cabella hosts a discussion with Joseph Rosa,
Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum
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