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Dog Park Science Part 2: The Neurobiology of Dog Training

Monday, December 7, 2009

Last week I delivered the second of two talks on “Dog Park Science,” at the Exploratorium.  You can find the audio of the first talk here.  The two talks are on very different topics.  The first is on the evolution of the dog, while this second one is about some of the core animal psychology [...]

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Video of experiments with conductive glass

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Experiments with conductive glass from Almost Scientific on Vimeo.
Here we’ve created a dielectric barrier discharge with transparent, conductive glass.

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Thank you!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Thank you all for coming to the show last night at The Exploratorium.  I had a great and exhausting time.  It was fantastic to see so many friends out in the crowd, and I’m sorry I did not get to talk to any of you for as long as I would have liked.
I’d like to [...]

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Experiments with Vacuum and Plasma — Advancing The Uira Engine

Sunday, October 25, 2009

On Friday the Almost Scientific team documented a series of experiments conducted on the Plasma Tubes of the Uira Engine.
These experiments were largely in preparation for November 5th, 2009, when we will be doing a controlled testing firing of The Uira Engine at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
The goal of these experiments was to qualitatively [...]

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Science, Art and Bay Area culture

Thursday, October 8, 2009

I had a really great time today talking to a seminar on scientific visualization and art, at the University of Colorado,  Boulder, hosted by Dr. Stephanie V. Chasteen.  Stephanie previously held my current position as a post doctoral fellow at the Exploratorium.
The talk focused [...]

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Shadows

Friday, September 25, 2009
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Meet Paul Doherty

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Paul Doherty is one of the worlds best science teacher and communicator I know,  and as one of the senior scientists here he is also my adviser at the Exploratorium.  Here is Paul in his element, showing off one of his fun, cool physics toys and teaching about Newtons laws on public television:

QUEST on KQED [...]

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Dog Park Science: Part 1 — The Evolution of Dogs

Monday, May 25, 2009

In honor of my dog Piper, who had a very bad day recently when he got a huge fox-tail stuck in his nose, I’ve posted the audio of a talk I delivered a few weeks ago at The Exploratorium about the evolution of the domestic dog.
If you have ever wondered exactly how the ferocious wolf [...]

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Teaching Tibetan monkes science with tinkering

Thursday, February 26, 2009

I just got back from a very interesting talk by the PIE group at the Exploratorium.  They spent ten days in India teaching Tibetan monks simple scientific concepts with cardboard automata.
They first had them study some pre-made automata and then had them make their own.
In true Exploratorium sprint they emphasized the playful and artistic elements [...]

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