Science for the classroom and beyond
First a Lab Out Loud guest, then president of James Randi Educational Foundation and now he joins the MythBusters! It’s a great time to be the Bad Astronomer. (sorry PZ, but this round goes to Phil) Catch skeptic Phil Plait help the MythBusters battle those pesky moon landing “hoaxes” on Wednesday August 27th.
Read moreThis December The Weather Channel is hosting the Forecast Earth Summit: The Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth Summit is a conference for select future environmental leaders held in Washington D.C., December 5-7, 2008. The Weather Channel will provide free trips to D.C. for 20 high school students who are passionate about the environment. Here is some information about last year’s event. […]
Read moreBill Nye is back on TV in his new show title Stuff Happens. The show airs Tuesday nights on Planet Green– a new channel from Discovery Communications dedicated to presenting programs about green, eco-friendly living. Bill gave us a preview of the show back in episode 14 of Lab Out Loud when he talked about the unintended consequences that occur […]
Read morehttp://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/nstalol16.mp3 For this episode, we chatted with Dr. Karen Harpp, Associate Professor in Geology at Colgate University in New York. Dr. Harpp talked with us about her research, science outreach and creating connections between science teachers and researchers. Colgate Geology Karen Harpp’s Homepage Volcanoes in the Classroom: A Simulation of an Eruption Column Dive and Discover: Interview with Geochemist […]
Read moreFor our contribution to Earth Day, we had the opportunity to chat with Bill Nye about his new show on the new Planet Green channel called Stuff Happens. Preview from the Show: I’m doing this other thing called “Stuff Happens? for the Discovery Channel. It’s strictly for a new channel Discovery is re-purposing – they’re calling it “Planet Green”. So […]
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Before Lab Out Loud, we did a podcast for the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers from 2006 to 2007. You can still find all the old episode below: Periodicity 52: Yahoo! Teachers (June 22, 2007) Our 52nd Episode! We celebrate a year of podcasting with an interview with Derek Baird. He talks to us about Yahoo’s soon-to-be-released service Yahoo! Teachers. […]
Read moreA Weekly Podcast from the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Find more Periodicity Episodes Today we talk with Dr. Mark Devlin (Department of Physics and Astronomy at UPenn) about BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope). Running Time: 23:50 http://media.libsyn.com/media/wsst/periodicity3001182007.mp3 Show Notes: Today we talk with Dr. Mark Devlin (Department of Physics and Astronomy at UPenn) about BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope). […]
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