December 31, 2008
There’s only one problem with these “best of” video lists… someone has to actually sort through all of the videos and come up with a list! Props to our genius video editor, Bradley Mayhew, for all of his editing magic in 2008. When the year starts out with 4,500 pounds of cornstarch and water and a cement truck on The Ellen Degeneres Show… you know it’s going to be quite a year! Our video and experiment library has grown to almost 400, with 70 new science videos added to our science video library just this year. Selecting our Top 10 Videos for the year was tough, but here are our personal favorites. Let us know what you think…
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Tags: best of 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Cornstarch Walk on Water, Electric Pickle, Ellen Degeneres Show, fire eating, Fire Extinguisher Experiment, Fun Fly Stick, Getting Ready for Science in the Rockies, Liquid Nitrogen Explosion, Mentos Diet Coke Geyser Box, potato guns, science experiment videos, Spangler Science Video Highlights, spinning tray of glasses
Filed under: Spangler Videos, Steve's Favorites, The Ellen Show
May 16, 2008
Everything was going great. I loaded the tray with four glasses filled with water and told Becky Ditchfield (the lovely meteorologist from 9NEWS) to swing the tray over her head (demonstrating Newton’s Laws of motion). It looked like things were going so well…
And then the tray accidentally hit Becky’s leg…
Of course, Becky was concerned about my safety… but she was more concerned about the million dollar HD cameras in the studio. The recovery was amazing and morning television viewers got a chance to see what really happens when you do science demos. Watch the video.
