http://www.stevespangler.com Making Science Education Fun Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:16:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © alyssa@stevespangler.com () alyssa@stevespangler.com() 1440 Making Science Education Fun alyssa@stevespangler.com No no http://www.stevespangler.com/stevespangler/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.stevespangler.com 144 144 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/09/24/carnival-of-education-190/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/09/24/carnival-of-education-190/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:05:33 +0000 Jane http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=926 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/09/24/carnival-of-education-190/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/21/science-left-behind-in-american-schools/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/21/science-left-behind-in-american-schools/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:53:33 +0000 Steve Spangler http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=902 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/21/science-left-behind-in-american-schools/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/15/going-green-and-plastic-free/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/15/going-green-and-plastic-free/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:33:26 +0000 Steve Spangler http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=900 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/08/15/going-green-and-plastic-free/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/15/the-carnival-of-education-180/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/15/the-carnival-of-education-180/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:31:56 +0000 Jane http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=881 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/15/the-carnival-of-education-180/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/01/%c2%a0science-chat-on-irish-talk-radio/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/01/%c2%a0science-chat-on-irish-talk-radio/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:20:03 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=874 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/07/01/%c2%a0science-chat-on-irish-talk-radio/feed/ 11:50 Sean Moncrieff is the host of the Afternoon Show on Newtalk 106-108 fm in Ireland. This nationally syndicated show features news stories ranging from the ... Sean Moncrieff is the host of the Afternoon Show on Newtalk 106-108 fm in Ireland. This nationally syndicated show features news stories ranging from the serious to the zany... maybe that's why they called. While waiting for my segment, I listened to the show and quickly realized how much I want to speak again in Ireland. I first lectured at the Irish Science Teachers Association in 1997 and again in 2000. I shared a few science demos and they taught me the finer points of drinking lots of Irish beer. Here's my interview with Moncrieff. Mentos,Experiment,,Podcasts,,Science,in,the,media alyssa@stevespangler.com no No http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/06/12/easy-science-experiments-on-the-carnival-of-education/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/06/12/easy-science-experiments-on-the-carnival-of-education/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:41:42 +0000 Jane http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=852 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/06/12/easy-science-experiments-on-the-carnival-of-education/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/05/24/new-weezer-video-features-mentos-geyser-and-everybody-else/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/05/24/new-weezer-video-features-mentos-geyser-and-everybody-else/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 05:17:39 +0000 Jane http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=812 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/05/24/new-weezer-video-features-mentos-geyser-and-everybody-else/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/04/28/mentos-world-record-video/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/04/28/mentos-world-record-video/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:05:12 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/?p=696 http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2008/04/28/mentos-world-record-video/feed/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/06/28/anti-helium-no-its-just-sulfur-hexafluoride/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/06/28/anti-helium-no-its-just-sulfur-hexafluoride/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:38:06 +0000 Steve http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/06/28/anti-helium-no-its-just-sulfur-hexafluoride/ http://www.stevespangler.com/archives/2007/06/28/anti-helium-no-its-just-sulfur-hexafluoride/feed/ 00:01:01 It was fun to see David Willey on The Tonight Show this evening doing some nice variations on the classic sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) demo. This ... It was fun to see David Willey on The Tonight Show this evening doing some nice variations on the classic sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) demo. This is the inert gas that is six times heavier than the air we breath. If you breath in helium (six times lighter than the air we breath), the pitch of your voice goes up. However, if you breath sulfur hexafluoride (six time heavier than normal air), your voice sounds low. You'll find a complete explanation of the sulfur hexafluoride demo or anti-helium experiment as some call it in my experiment library. For the Tonight Show, David filled an open top plastic box with the gas and proceeded to float aluminum foil boats and bubbles on this very dense gas. These demos got a nice reaction from the audience. Instead of inhaling the SF6 gas from a balloon, David had Jay Leno dip his head down into the box and inhale some of the gas. As you might imagine, Jay had fun with his "Barry White" voice. After showing the heavy gas demo on 9News last year, Scott Merrick from Snacks4thebrain visited our lab in Englewood, Colorado to tape this video of the sulfur hexafluoride experiment for YouTube. Chemistry,,Educating,,Podcasts,,Science,in,the,media alyssa@stevespangler.com no No