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

Exploratorium at the Piers: Exploratorium at Pier 15: Green Machine (Clip)

Running Time:
00:05:21

Catch a sneak peak of our new nine-acre campus at Piers 15/17 with Building Operations Manager Chuck Mignacco. Learn about features of the building that will help us achieve our goal of becoming the largest net-zero energy use museum in the United States. Come see for yourself—doors open at Pier 15 on April 17, 2013.

Project: Exploratorium at the Piers | Browse All

Date: February 6, 2013
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: green technology, chuck mignacco, net-zero energy

Return to Mars: Investigating Curiosity's Robotic Arm (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:45:00

In today's webcast, Exploratorium hosts Ron Hipschman and Robyn Higdon will look at the tools and technology on the robotic arm of the Mars rover, Curiosity. What are some of the scientific instruments and capabilities of NASA's newest rover on Mars?

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 12, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science

Keywords: mars, jpl, mars rover, curiosity, jet propulsion laboratory, nasa, landing, spacecraft, robot, geology, space, msl, mars science laboratory, tools, technology

Exploratorium Science at America's Cup: Green Sea Turtles (Clip)

Running Time:
04:55

There are green sea turtles in San Diego Bay? Where did they come from? Do they really live over 100 years? Why is it important for scientists to keep track of these giant creatures, and how on earth do they do it? In this interview with ecologist Tomoharu Eguchi (NOAA Marine Fisheries Service) and ecology graduate student Sheila Madrak, we meet the sea turtles and explore these 'big' questions.

Project: Exploratorium Science at America's Cup | Browse All

Date: November 25, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: exploratorium america's cup green sea turtle turtles tagging ecology biology noaa san diego bay power plant marine

Driven: Away (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:00

In this show we'll explore the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park, San Francisco's only off-grid building and an inspiring model of sustainable living in an area that has historically been a dumping ground for industrial waste. We are guided through the place and its principles of environmental justice by recent college graduate and EcoCenter worker Jasmine Dow.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: May 20, 2011
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: ecocenter, heron's head, driven, green, environmental justice

Miscellaneous: Cardburg! (Clip)

Running Time:
02:50

Josh Short from the Cardboard Institute of Technology walks us through their latest installation, Subterrain, on the Exploratorium floor!

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: March 16, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: cardburg, cardboard, cardboard institute of technology, subterrain, exploratorium learning studio, cit, making, materials, building, group build, tinkering studio, installation

Links:	CIT website

Driven: Extraordinarily Splendid (Slideshow)

Running Time:
03:45

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, is an encyclopedic museum holding many splendid, unique, and puzzling treasures. It's a carnival of delights and ideas, many of them outside of the commonly held canons of fact and accomplishment. It slips around the question, 'is it real?', refusing to pit fact against fiction or art against data, instead weaving it all together into something more mysterious and joyful. In this first of two segments on the museum, curator David Wilson welcomes us into his worlds of inspiration, and parts the curtain to reveal how this impossible place indeed exists.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: December 19, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: david wilson, museum of jurassic technology

Driven: The Avalanche of Ideas (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:00

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California, is an encyclopedic museum holding many splendid, unique, and puzzling treasures. It's a carnival of delights and ideas, many of them outside of the commonly held canons of fact and accomplishment. It slips around the question, 'is it real?', refusing to pit fact against fiction or art against data, instead weaving it all together into something more mysterious and joyful. In this second of two segments on the museum, curator David Wilson welcomes us into his worlds of inspiration, and parts the curtain to reveal how this impossible place indeed exists.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: December 19, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: david wilson, museum of jurassic technology, driven, inspiration

After Dark: Resolution:Media Artist Ken Murphy (Clip)

Running Time:
00:04:23

Ken Murphy, creator of A History of the Sky— a time-lapse visualization that will span an entire year—talks about his project during the After Dark event, Resolution.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: January 7, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: ken murphy, history of the sky, time-lapse, installation, clouds, sky, video, weather, technology, art

Links:

Ken Murphy's Website

Iron Science Teacher: St. Patrick's Day (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:02:13

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

Real: 256K

Science Wire: Biometrics: Vox Unlocks (Webcast)

Running Time:
00:11:16

Our team of middle school students from the Aim High program investigates new technologies that use our unique physical traits as tools for identification. Vox Unlocks tunes into voice recognition

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: November 5, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: voice recognition technology, voice verification, vocal chords, vocal vowels exhibit, vocal vowels floor exhibit, pitch switch exhibit, pitch switch floor exhibit, voice characteristics, sound waves, vocal characteristics,

Real: 256K


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