We Want Your Videos!

posted by Ira Flatow on Thursday, March 22. 2007

As part of our website redesign effort, we will be including lots of videos. You can see some of them showing up already, as Flora Lichtman works her magic on them.

So.....if you have some nice science or technology related videos that you would like to share with the rest of us, please let us know!

What kinds of footage? Could be anything - within reason. How about a tour of your lab? How about a demonstration of some experiment, or science fair project, or classroom demo, e.g. showing how to make the "sky blue" with milk and water in a fish tank. You get the idea. Be creative. Look at some of the videos on the site. Hear yourself saying" Hey! I could do that!" or "I've got a better one!"

Maybe you are are a researcher and have cool videos about what you do...even simple stuff. You can put yourself into the video, too, as our "tour guide" or explainer. "Here's how we do a gel..." "Here's how we extract DNA..." "This is what a bio-chip looks like and here's how it works." "Wonder what nanotubes look like? How we make 'em? Here's how." Or send us the raw footage and we'll make it ourselves.

Perhaps you have a terrific lecture, reading or presentation that was captured on video. We'd love to see it. Check out the dramatic reading Splitting Infinity that's on our site now. Or the terrific video of Milking A Spider sent to us by a scientists who studies them.

Lastly, if you know of an event or a person that must be recorded, please let us know and perhaps we can arrange to do that.

So.....if you have some nice science or technology related videos that you would like to share with the rest of us, please let us know! Email Flora: Flora@sciencefriday.com with some info about your video and we'll get the ball rolling.

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Posted by Ira Flatow on Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:47 PM | Comments (39)

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posted by Kevin. Bruss on 2007-03-30 15:04, comment number: 1

Re: Saturn Hexagon

I wonder if this pattern could be produced by the high winds on saturn?

I came across a site on youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3TJKl9ZvbaI

illustrates the impact on a speaker with different sound frequencies. They are suprsizingly complex.. Based on something like, this could either the wind velocity be determined, or a test done with the frequencies on saturn reproduce the shapes on a speaker (or similar medium) ?

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posted by Lew Gustafson on 2007-03-30 17:37, comment number: 2

Check out the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Scandal aired a few weeks ago by UK's Channel 4 and review in Pajamas Media by Richard North. It documents CO2 in the atmosphere as not the cause but simply following temperature which is controlled by solar input, with the ocean as major source and sink. Your recent Science Friday gave a very superficial answer to a caller asking about solar input (we scientists have looked at that), but we need a credible discussion of this thesis.

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posted by Ira Flatow on 2007-03-30 20:38, comment number: 2.1

Lew,
You're off topic here. I'm looking for non-commercial videos, made by individuals, not documentaries broadcast on TV, etc.

As for the "the superficial" answer on SciFri, this topic has been covered over and over and over again over the past years on this show...and the answer is no different.

You "scientists" should know that.

Thanks.

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posted by lesmoore on 2007-12-09 08:53, comment number: 2.1.1

http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/h2.htm

Switch To Hydrogen!
The United Nuclear Hydrogen Fuel System Kit converts your existing vehicle to run on Hydrogen.
Complete kits will be available for various late-model cars & trucks as well as individual system components for those who choose to assemble their own kits.
Simply put, you never have to buy Gasoline again.
Since there are no major changes made to your engine, you can still run your vehicle on Gasoline at any time.
We now have over 50,000 trouble-free miles on our prototype vehicles. We are currently fleet-testing our systems and are in final preparation for sales to the general public.

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posted by Tahir Rahman on 2007-12-16 15:20, comment number: 2.1.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3jY2oWXuMw

Video regarding Apollo 11 silicon disc flown to the moon.

I have a replica of the disc in my collection and I wrote a book about it.
See realted yahoo news story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/theuntoldstoryhowonesmalldisccarriedonegiantmessageformankind

Tahir Rahman, M.D.

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posted by Guest on 2008-06-07 00:02, comment number: 2.1.3

Twenty years ago when gas prices first threatened to go over 2 dollars a gallon, I invented an energy conservation device. The effort of your exercise, whether walking, joggng or spinting, is captured by turning a generator (hence the name 'Generacer'or 'TreadWheel'). The generator charges rechargeable batteries that can be used later to run small appliances. A user walking at a speed of 3mph for and hour and a half produces 0.3 KWH of electricity!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2uKVE2ExA
love your show, Larry

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posted by Steve Wille on 2007-04-03 22:26, comment number: 3

Regarding the milked spider... one obvious question that wasn't readily apparent: is the spider killed by the electrical treatment?

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posted by Flora Lichtman on 2007-04-13 07:50, comment number: 3.1

Hi Steve - I asked Greta Binford, the researcher in the video, about your question. I have good(?) news - the spider made it. Binford says: "They wake up after about 5 minutes and don't seem to be phased at all."
-flora

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posted by Stephanie1 on 2007-11-17 02:45, comment number: 4

Ira, as a graduate student in clinical psychology I am very fascinated by the Transgendered. I believe there is a scientific etiology. I understand that starting around the 8th week of fetal growth a possible hormonal imbalance causes the brain to develop in one direction while the body develops in the opposite direction. Is there a chance you could flesh (pun intended) this out in a future segment of your show?

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posted by RogerWinters on 2007-11-17 21:47, comment number: 5

Back in the early 1980's Cond Nast had a publication called Omni. In Omni I read about a nuclear technology called light water nuclear energy. Instead of using heavy water which was a result of the Manhattan Project for the bomb, light water reators heat water and don't produce nuclear waste, from what I remember about the article. If this subject could be discussed on Science Friday, it certainly is relevant to the energy issues of today.

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posted by atvandorn on 2007-12-21 19:45, comment number: 6

I was thinking about the pace of supercomputing and how it will continue to allow for huge new revelations as well as for deeper understanding of complex systems like the weather. I would be very interested in hearing from the researchers whom actually use these computers, as well as about their new discoveries and whats on the horizon of science that super computing will allow. I love the show!

Aaron

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posted by Guest on 2008-01-02 13:07, comment number: 7

Here are a couple of my videos aimed at the Science Fair crowd:

Ultra-simple electric generator
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/912594/

Melt glass in your Microwave
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1004040/

Note that a large variety of phenomona exist involving microwave ovens. Over coming months I'll be slowing adding more videos to illustrate these. An empty microwave oven is a high voltage resonance device, similar to a Tesla Coil, but at 2.1GHz frequency... so you might expect that a large number of physics tricks are possible.

Now if you want to create controversy (similar to wings/lift debate!), here's a video that can really get people going.

Water is a blue liquid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhD1rZ2Y7D4

It typically triggers two different angry responses: people who are angry that the color of water is even an issue... and people who are angry because they are utterly certain that water is a colorless liquid (and the blue color comes from the sky.) As with wings and lifting force, all textbooks at the grade-school level always get this explanation wrong.

Recently I visited the small science center at Crater Lake national park. I noticed that nowhere in any of their exhibits' text did they clearly explain the amazing blue color of the lake. Yet this was a frequent visitor question, and in more than one place they stated that the blue color was caused by the clarity of the water (?!) Or they gave complicated explanations of proportional spectrum absorption (while avoiding giving any hint that this explains why water is a blue material.) So I asked a passing explainer/docent whether she knew that water in fact was a blue-colored substance. She immediately became very angry, saying that she'd never encountered any such idea in her training, or in anything she'd ever read about the issue.

Heh.

Tolstoy knew of this. Once the wrong explanation gets into the education culture, the mistake becomes far too large to admit:

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of
conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by
thread, into the fabric of their lives."

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posted by Guest on 2008-01-12 13:43, comment number: 8

Hi,
Here is some data just published on how magnets can reduce pain and swelling if applied just after an injury. Magnets have been used for many years, but without any scientific data backing it up. See the following blurb picked up by UPI http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/01/04/magnetic_fields_can_reduce_swelling/8865/

Susan

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posted by John Blinke on 2008-01-17 21:42, comment number: 9

Solar cycle 24 is beginning. That reminds me of HAARP, which is studying the ionosphere from Gacona, Alaska. How about interviewing them to see what they have discovered so far?

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posted by senistar on 2008-01-30 19:08, comment number: 10

I have discovered a very new stage in the moons path, or shall I say the "NEW MOON".

I'm eager to see what other fellow scientist have to say about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJoZ9cjv2w

There's a book as well which gives great insite as to what is causing this new change in our moon.

Please leave comments YouTubers. And I'd like to have this video featured, or the like thereof here on this site!

Thank you for reading these words!

Peace to the world of good!

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posted by Guest on 2008-02-01 18:52, comment number: 11

"Evolution in less time constrained zones has proceeded superluminally and as such at the outset contained future solutions. Accessing that diminesion however requires more than mechanistic approaches. A people facing the dangers inherent in solely mechanistic spproaches and applications need consider how to become more inclusive in their pperceptions."

From Super-sciences & The Supra-Scientific {C} 2008 Capstonepublishing@att.net _

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posted by Guest on 2008-02-29 01:14, comment number: 12

Forget the rest, here's the best! Here is a true "wave" of the future for alternative fuels. How about running your car on water? Let's get behind this! No polution, fully renewable.

This first link is about John Kanzius who by searching for a cancer cure, stumbled on this water technology in the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk&NR=1 Stan Meyer is another guy who is actually touted as the pioneer of this technology: Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8stApCmxYEM&feature=related and Part - 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h75_TGiwg78&feature=related

Here are a few more links on the water technology. This is where you can put it into practice:

http://water4gas.com/2books.htm is a great site which gives you basic step by step instructions on changing your vehicle to a hybrid.

www.runningcaronwater.com gives you directions on retro-fitting your car to "COMPLETELY" run on water. You never have to go to the gas pump again! It's about $30.00 for the instructions.

http://www.h2earth.org/main.htm shows how proficient this technology is (almost 1700% to be exact). Currently being called "zero point energy".

Check out Xogen Technologies http://www.xogentechnologies.ca/ This company combines an innovative treatment of waste water while implementing the use of water fuel technology to dub treatment plants as power plants. In return, H2O is the byproduct of the burnt/spent HHO that is re-fused (or re-associated) to it's original molecular state of H2O...therefore clean water. AND NO, IT DOES NOT TAKE MORE ENERGY TO PRODUCE THAN YOU GET OUT OF IT! Don't debunk before doing the research skeptics.

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posted by Shaun Holloway on 2008-03-18 11:00, comment number: 13

Here is the URL to the COSI science center's YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/cosiscience

We post videos of all kinds of activity that happens in our building and the trips that our team go on. They're are a number of our Science a'la Cart activities posted, that you may find interesting.

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posted by 19thmag on 2008-04-11 15:51, comment number: 14

Dear Ira,

You missed an incredible opportunity today to link the charcoal/soil segment with the biofuels segment. Pyrolysis gives us the opportunity to make "CARBON NEGATIVE" biofuels. There is so much work being done at many universities all over the world and by many entrepreneurs to make biofuels by pyrolysis and incorporate the charcoal into the soil. You didn't even scratch the surface of this incredibly exciting field. Other scientist like Johannes Lehmann at Cornell have been doing this charcoal soil research for many years. I have dozens of links but perhaps you could start to get an idea by researching the links from this one:

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/

There is a discussion forum here with hundreds of participants! You want videos? there are many here.

Please give some good coverage to the upcoming biochar conference in Newcastle, England:

http://www.biochar-international.org/ibi2008conference.html

And you must check out Danny Day and Eprida at the University of Georgia:

http://www.eprida.com/

Please give this a lot more attention!!

Thanks.

Doug Clayton
Jaffrey, NH

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posted by jim schardt on 2008-04-17 17:43, comment number: 14.1

This may have been the story I heard but I want to comment on the use of "so" by many of your guests. It seems as if using "so" as the first word in response to a question has become popular amongst many radio commentators recently, especially by scientists. For example, the interviewer might say, "There seems to be an increase in the number of amateur astronomers lately." And the guest astronomer responds, "So, people seem to be ...." I hear it all the time these days: "so" as the first word in a response. And it is not just scientists. Daniel Schoor used it a couple of weekends ago to begin his commentary on whatever.
So, I think Science Friday ought to research this phenomenon of folks using "so" when beginning a response. When was it first used? Is it truly being used more recently? Why is it being used? What can we do to stop it?

jim

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posted by Guest on 2008-05-11 00:29, comment number: 15

Eureka Science news - a cool news aggregator for science

http://esciencenews.com

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posted by Marc on 2008-05-24 03:58, comment number: 16

Dear Ira,

I am not sure if this is the right spot for this since you are asking for links to videos, but I just found a link to this story on slashdot.org and thought that it would be great if you covered it on Science Friday.

Thanks,
Marc

"WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags"

http://news.therecord.com/article/354044

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posted by cathy on 2008-07-03 11:36, comment number: 17

Video of birth of miniature horse:

Go to my blog:
www.lifetimelearning.blogspot.com and there is a link to it in the right margin.

I love Science Friday and so as a home-based learner family (homeschoolers), I try to post every Friday something we've learned in Science that week.

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posted by RaleighMyers on 2008-09-26 14:47, comment number: 18

Hydrogen Uses Existing Gas Lines + Becomes the Water Supply

How can we justify switching to a Solar Hydrogen Economy at this point in history? Eighty percent of the planet isn't switching it is just beginning to develop, they are starting with their governments.
http://tinyurl.com/4xkcv6

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posted by BradLayton on 2008-10-11 08:35, comment number: 19

We recently discovered the world's longest collagen molecule in an unexpected place. Typically collagen is made by vertebrates and other organisms with tendons, ligaments, bones and other connective tissue. However, we found the record collagen (it's 330 nanometers long instead of the previous record of 300 nanometers) in a marine-dwelling cyanobacterium that makes blooms that can be kilometers in diameter. Until our work was recently published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution, no one had an explanation for how this bacteria could make blooms so large. The paper may be accessed at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/435460v80736254v/fulltext.pdf

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posted by Guest on 2008-12-07 11:20, comment number: 20

Ira, I enjoyed your bit about physics the president should know. How about doing something on the ECOLOGY the president should know! All the fundamentals necessary to understand, and for that matter solve, your current problems are found in the teachings of ecology. Isn't it odd that economics, the management of the home, fails to consider ecology, the study of the home. Please consider doing a piece on essential ecologic concepts that the president, or for that matter, every citizen of this earth should understand.

Thanks you for a great show and for considering my comments. Bill Alldredge, Professor Emeritus, Fishery and Wildlife Biology Colorado State University

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posted by skruse on 2008-12-23 22:58, comment number: 21

Re: NJ & panel remarks on energy production-transmission.
Everyone is stuck in a 1940s mode of centralized power. Germany provides a working example of decentralized power - photovoltaic panels on roofs, farms & freeways (not massive installations in southwestern N. America). Three things need to happen: 1) efficiency & conservation. It is more cost effective to hold onto what we already have and take advantage of local site characteristics. 2) All buildings need to be upgraded - triple pane windows, R-100 ceiling insulation, sunpipes for natural diffuse light. The grid needs to be upgraded, nationwide, to handle all the green electrons coming on line. Examples of this are covered in the Frontline video "Heat" (21 Oct 2008).

These are not new thoughts, but well researched and tested solutions from the Rocky Mountain Institute (Amory Lovins). For example, using RMI principles, the monthly utility bill for our 2300 ft2 home (built in 1980), 1989 to date, has averaged less than $30 month, year round (surrounding homes spend $250 to $1k per month). No PV panels, no black boxes. Summer heat can be terrific and the maritime polar airmasses of winter can penetrate to the bone.

As a biophysical geographer I just "pick the low hanging fruit" and take advantage of local conditions and climate. We can no longer substitute oil for knowledge. We must now apply the knowledge.

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posted by Rabbit on 2009-01-16 15:15, comment number: 22

Re: Light Painting,
Here's a nice link:
http://flickr.com/photos/arabbit
Cheers,
Rabbit

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posted by kirkepeterson1 on 2009-01-19 19:20, comment number: 23

I heard last Friday (Jan. 16th) that Science Friday is interested in scores/music to go with some videos submitted. I can't find where to go on the web site here. Any clues/links/suggestions? I'm a composer. Since I was driving while listening I couldn't write anything down.

Thanks

Kirk

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posted by mesrik on 2009-02-01 13:00, comment number: 24

Hi,

I (too) heard you were intrested about some music you could use with videos etc.

Let me suggest that you visit the Kahvi Collective site http://kahvi.org/ where you can find according to site stats

"138 artists created 264 audio releases totalling 1104 of freely downloadable tracks.
11 artists created 21 commercial audio releases

this is equal to 9+ gigabytes of audio. there is around 5000 minutes of audio (if each track is 5 minutes on average) which equates to 83 hours and 3.5 days of continuous audio treats!"

It's mostly ambient, electric, orchestral etc. So very good stuff there. (P9 Ambient Electronic podcast at iTunes is mixing most catchy tunes from that source)

All that is freely listenable and downloadable, restrictions apply regarding commercial use, but I would be supprised if they turn down NPR thinking of its publicity value what the artists get via your program.

Cheers,

:-) riku

ps. Love your program, keep on good work!

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posted by touchtanks on 2009-04-24 22:00, comment number: 25

Here is a video preview of Touch Tanks for Kids a Maine based company committed to the advancement of hands on learning that promotes environmental responsibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqzf140M48&feature=channel_page

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posted by TGilk on 2009-07-22 23:39, comment number: 26

There are many great science songs at the U of Washington website

http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/music.shtml

One of my favorites is 'Hooray for nMR spectroscopy', but I suggest that you listen to a bunch and find out which are your favorites.

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posted by Anonymous on 2009-07-24 15:47, comment number: 27

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2009/smartbridges.html

check this out- smart bridges! one of the leaders of this project is the amazing superhero mike flynn of the university of michigan...you could do a whole show on his work...
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mpflynn/index.html

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posted by Jason on 2009-07-29 03:29, comment number: 28

With the increasing popularity of digital cameras, here's a cool video (not mine) that shows the process of how a camera lens is made. The process here is for a video camera, but still cameras use the same glass. Really amazing, and gives a new appreciation for the QC that goes on, even on what many consider "inferior" glass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k

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posted by Anonymous on 2009-08-14 13:33, comment number: 29

I wish I had a video. All I have is a concept.

We've often heard that in space a rocket is limited to the speed of the propellant.

I don't think so. I know it sounds crazy, but I think that's similar metaphorically to saying a plane can't take off from a conveyor belt going the opposite direction.

Outside of the atmosphere, in space, your not limited by friction. Speed is relevant only with relation to other matter. You might be heading toward Pluto at great speed, but relative to yourself, your stationary. Thrust is still thrust.

Take a balloon on the space station. Your all moving at escape velocity, but blow that thing up and let it go.
It will accelerate.

What is "stationary" in space anyway?

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posted by Guest on 2009-08-15 01:30, comment number: 30

The electromagnetic pulse from nuclear weapons was described in the circa 1962 book from the U.S. Government printing office "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons." For an additional $1, one could obtain a circular slide rule to calculate blast effects. Google "effects of nuclear weapons" for various links such as the effects of nuclear weapons glasstone The original volume is only available as a used book I understand.

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posted by RJ on 2009-08-21 10:45, comment number: 31

Maybe you might consider adding this video on what is one of the most influential resources for chemists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1gaPYAfblg
http://blip.tv/file/2291977

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posted by Bob Robertson on 2009-11-08 08:19, comment number: 32

Here's my video of my robotics project using Brookshire Software's VSA, Lynxmotion's SSC-32 Servo controller card and my design for the moving heads and body parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAt2meAGrwg

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posted by Guest on 2010-01-22 15:59, comment number: 33

where can i find all of the results of the bar coding study by the Trinity High School seniors?

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