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Science in the City: The Gong Show: Exploring Metal (Clip)

Running Time:
00:05:00

Join musician Karen Stackpole as she illuminates the science, history, and construction of gongs, tam-tams, and metallophones. In her studio, we learn how gongs are made by using heat, cold water, and a tempering process. Karen also discusses contemporary uses of gongs and some of her current work.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: December 22, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: gongs, resonating, metal, metallophones, tam-tams, tempering, karen stackpole

QuickTime: 450K

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: Sugar (Clip)

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00:01:40

This After Dark event got the holiday season off to a sweet start, presenting art, science, and history related to sugar.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: December 10, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, general science,

Keywords: sugar, after dark, performance, sugar sculpting, adult events

Explainer Perspectives: The Explainers (Clip)

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00:05:49

The High School Explainer Program is one of the most exciting programs at the Exploratorium. It focuses on high school--aged students in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.

Project: Explainer Perspectives | Browse All

Date: December 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: explainers, museum, exploratorium, program

Science in the City: Underwater World (Clip)

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00:06:18

If you sink it, they will come. That’s what Exploratorium biologist Karen Kalumuck learned when she decided to experiment by submerging PVC plates under the piers at Marina Harbor. In this program, you'll meet the bizarre aquatic life forms that inhabit our Bay.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: December 8, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: san francisco, bay, biology, organisms, tunicates, settling plates

QuickTime: 700K

Science in the City: Microclimates in Fogtown (Clip)

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San Francisco's meteorological landscape is as unique as its social landscape. Tune in as we investigate why our city has many microclimates.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: December 8, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: weather, fog, microclimates, san francisco, paul doherty, marine layer, topography, hills

QuickTime: 700K

Chaco Canyon: Sense of Place (Clip)

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00:01:04

See how patterns of light change throughout the day at Chaco, and hear G.B. Cornucopia and Shelly Valdez share their impressions of the phenomena of light cycles in Chaco Canyon.

Project: Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon | Browse All

Date: December 2, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: sun observation, solstice

Driven: The Wig Master (Slideshow)

Running Time:
04:00

Gerd Mairandres, Head of the Wig and Make-Up Department at the San Francisco Opera for over 30 years, takes us backstage before a performance of Madama Butterfly to share his passion for wigs and makeup and his enduring love of opera.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: November 20, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
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Speaking of Music Rewind: Jin Hi Kim Part 1 (Podcast)

Running Time:
01:09:05

In this intimate talk from 1990, cross-cultural composer and musician Jin Hi Kim reflects on her diverse experiences in Eastern and Western musical worlds.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

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

Keywords: jin hi kim, komungo, speaking of music

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