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November 3, 2008
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The news anchors at Fox 4 News in Dallas wanted to see if I could find a few ways to make science fun on their Good Day show. Let's see... I could show them pictures of my science project from 3rd grade... or discuss freezing point depression... or make it snow and change their voices. I'll pick door number 3. As you'll see in the video, we covered the interview counter with erupting
Insta-Snow and allowed Tim and Megan to experience the "reverse helium" effect using
sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
This appearance on Good Day Dallas is the kick-off to a week of science workshops and presentations at
NAEYC and the
Texas Association of Science Teachers annual convention.
September 30, 2008
If you're a fan of the
Ellen Show, you know that the show recently moved to a new set on the Warner Bros Studio lot. The new studio is huge... great for exploding clouds of liquid nitrogen! Watch the video, but keep reading to learn what happens behind all of those clouds.
I've mentioned this before, but it deserves a second mention. Ellen DeGeneres and the people who make up her staff are absolutely top-notch, first-class, amazing people who love their jobs. From the moment we arrived on the lot, there was someone ready to help us with anything we needed. And unlike a normal guest, I have a bunch of weird stuff to set-up backstage. The request list that I turned into the producers for this segment included rain coats, fire extinguishers, liquid nitrogen and a huge jar of pickles. With lots of stuff comes lots of set-up time backstage and probably more interaction with the Ellen Show crew than most guests get.
Aside from having a great time, the big take away for me during this visit was the way the Ellen staff does …
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June 13, 2008
Lynn is a mother who decided, a year or so ago, to "unschool" her daughter, and her blog,
A Life Worth Living, tells her readers how this is unfolding for her family in the UK.
Last April, Lynn found our link on a friend's blog, clicked on it, and discovered us! " . . . I went onto a website I had found that had a link to
Steve Spangler Science, and found lots and lots of new experiments to do. . . some I have heard of before, some I haven't. I also like the fact that you can watch a video clip of quite a lot of the experiments."
Thank you, Lynn, for your kind words about our website!
April 18, 2006
When the phone rings, we never know quite what to expect. The phone rang and on the other end was a senior producer at the
Ellen Show (you know... Ellen DeGeneres). It seems that this producer had been watching a few of our
science videos and wanted to know if Ellen would have fun making huge clouds with liquid nitrogen, shooting potatoes, whipping up a batch of slime or learning how to make toilet paper fly. My response was "yes" to all of the above. But maybe it's best if you help us decide which science experiments would be most fun to do with Ellen. Of course, the goal of the segment is to show parents how to make learning fun... and what could be more fun than 50 gallons of Insta-Snow erupting on the set?
Now this doesn't mean that I'm automatically on the show... they're just interested. So, what cool science demos should I pitch to the producers at the Ellen Show?
December 16, 2005
Let's see... what could you watch on your new video ipod? Episodes of NBC's "Office"... ad-free music videos... or some guy in Denver who teaches you how to do cool science demos. Hmmm... that's a tough choice between Office and the music videos. I'm pleased to let you know that many of our science segments from television are now available as a podcast through Apple's iTunes. Even if you don't have a video iPod (oh, please Santa, please), you can download the segments into your iTunes application (what? no iTunes? just download it for free).
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