EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Science in the City: The Brew Lab (Clip)

Running Time:
00:04:45

How do brewers turn a handful of simple ingredients into the frothy, delicious beverage we call beer? Patrick Horn and Bryan Hermannsson from San Francisco’s Pacific Brewing Lab take us inside their testing facility and show us how a new beer is born.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: October 10, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry, General Science

Keywords: beer, brewing, microbrewery, yeast

Transit of Venus: Monitoring Climate Change (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:15

Join Dr. Russell Schnell, the director of the Global Monitoring Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as he talks about what it takes to monitor climate change.

Project: The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus | Browse All

Date: June 4, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science, Chemistry

Keywords: dr. russell schnell, climate change, monitoring, boulder, noaa, air, atmosphere, atmospheric observatories, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, co2

Color: ColorFest Demonstration: Oaxacan Dyes And Textiles (Clip)

Running Time:
01:00

Join us for a preview of Oaxacan artisans that will be visiting the Exploratorium this summer as part of Colorfest!

Project: Color | Browse All

Date: June 3, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art, chemistry

Keywords: color, colorfest, oaxaca, dye, weaving, yarn, mexico, red

QuickTime: 1000K

Fabricated Realities: Exploratorium in Second Life (Clip)

Running Time:
00:13:35

Made by the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, this "machinima"--a film made entirely in a virtual world, highlights the exhibits and recent events in Second Life on the Exploratorium Island and 'Sploland sims.

Project: Fabricated Realities: Virtual Worlds, Mixed and Augmented Reality | Browse All

Date: March 17, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science, Chemistry, Physics

Keywords: second life, machinima virtual worlds

Iron Science Teacher: Triangles (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:55:52

This week's secret ingredient was triangles! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 16, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: iron science teacher, teaching, activities, demonstrations

Iron Science Teacher: Leaves (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:37:59

This week's secret ingredient was leaves! This week's secret ingredient was triangles! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 9, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: iron science teacher, teaching, activities, demonstrations

Iron Science Teacher: Lightbulbs (Webcast)

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This week's secret ingredient was lightbulbs! Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 2, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: iron science teacher, teaching, activities, demonstrations

Iron Science Teacher: Oil Redux (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:37:00

Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off. Teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher." The Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher competition showcases science teachers as they devise demonstrations around a particular "secret" ingredient—and today's secret ingredient was oil!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: June 25, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Chemistry, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: iron science teacher, teaching, activities, demonstrations

Miscellaneous: Science of Cocktails 2010 (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:13

Science of Cocktails presented the artistry of master mixologists shaken with the science behind the craft. Taking an in-depth, interactive look at the physics, chemistry, and biology of cocktails, this first-time Exploratorium fundraiser engaged guests in an exploration of their favorite libations like they've never experienced before.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: February 26, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Chemistry

Keywords: cocktails, after dark, alcohol, event, bartender, adult

Miscellaneous: Earl Stirling and his Pyrograph (Clip)

Running Time:
00:10:24

Exploratorium staff member Earl Stirling demonstrates the amazing "Pyrograph", an artwork refined over four years. Like a fiery version of the museum’s classic Drawing Board, Stirling’s "Pyrograph" swings a pendulum over a sandy cauldron, tracing out oscillating patterns in colorful fire. This mesmerizing piece evokes both the Foucault pendulum and Dante’s Inferno.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: January 28, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Chemistry, Physics

Keywords: earl, dodger, stirling, foucault, pendulum, fire, propane, art, pyrograph, sodium, electron


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