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Episode 50 – Science We Can Watch

Dale — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:30:09 +0000

Kari Byron

This week we discuss our favorite new science shows and talk to Mythbuster Kari Byron about her new show Head Rush on The Science Channel. Airing after school and Saturdays, Head Rush provides a commercial free hour of MythBusters mashups.

What science do you watch? Comment below and share your favorite science TV shows, internet clips or other science media.

Join us in two weeks (October 18) as we talk with Rhett Allain. Rhett is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. Rhett discusses science teaching and his popular blog: Dot Physics.

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Direct download: LOL50.mp3

Use Lab Out Loud for Earth Day

Brian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:29:02 +0000

Looking for Earth Day resources to use in the classroom? We thought it might be nice to remind you about a few LOL Podcasts that can be used to help save the earth:

Episode 20 – Ed Begley Jr. on Science and the Environment

Brian — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:16:52 +0000

Ed Begley, Jr.

In this episode, we talked with Ed Begley Jr. Ed talks to us about science, the environment and his show Living with Ed.

Preview from the Show:

I think when people are armed with good knowledge about science, I think we’ve really got a shot. It’s amazing to me when I talk to people – adults, people my age – about simple things – the boiling point of water, how many planets are in the solar system and in what order they are aligned – people don’t have a lot of knowledge about the basics of electricity and things that really affect their lives. Let me just remove it even from planetary movements and more arcane things like that in people’s lives (that are very meaningful to me) and a lot of people can’t talk about nuts and bolts things like where water comes from and where it goes to, how electricity works, Ohm’s law – things that would really be helpful if they knew it, and precious few people that I know, know much about it.

If you hear claims about something – let’s say an issue like loss of coral reefs, or ozone depletion, or global warming – go online. And I say to you and to the students, stay away from fringe information from anybody. I’m not saying go to environmental sites or some AM talk radio site. Go to good people like National Geographic, Science Magazine, Nature Magazine, Princeton University, Columbia University. Go to people like that – people with Ph.D. after their name. And I’ll roll the dice on that. You need someone good with peer reviewed studies. If it says something other than what I believe, I’m going to listen, because I believe in peer reviewed studies.

In response to: “What do you want our kids of the future to know?”
I want them to develop an interest in science if they don’t have one, to cultivate an interest in science if they do have one, and something that they should continue to pursue the rest of their days. I think it’s a wonderful thing in our pursuit of knowledge to know things about science. I’m all for learning about art and literature… In addition to that, we also need to be grounded in some sense to scientific knowledge, have some modicum of scientific knowledge, and the more the better. I would urge everybody, no matter what your passion is…, to have a bit of your life grounded in science, and you’ll be all the better for it.

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Direct download: LOL20.mp3