Explanation

A Wee Bit of Science

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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How much water do you need to drink?
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Radio Carbon Dating

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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How the decay of Carbon-14 can be used to date archeological specimens.
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Centripetal Force

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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A bucket of water upside-down over your head. Not the smartest thing ever? Keep watching…
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The Test

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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Alpha radiation can’t make it past the first paper. Geddit?
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Gravity

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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Gravity. You probably guessed that from the title. There are globes and aeroplanes and balls so on. You probably guessed that too.
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Sound

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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The principles of sound, explained and demonstrated.
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Gravity!!

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Gravity, and why you can’t fly.
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2-Minute Cell

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Cooking up a cell with Flagella Lawson and Golgi Ramsey.
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Gravity

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Gravity, flight, and a trolley service of drinks and light refreshments.
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Ice Lift

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Lifting an ice cube using string and… salt?
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A Bit of Light Relief

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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A group of refraction demonstrations involving glasses of water.
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Photosynthesis

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Photosynthesis in nature, theory and the lab.
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Magic Pencil…. or not?

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Why a pencil appears to bend when partly-immersed in water.
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Bang! - Chemistry in Everyday Life

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Metals reacting with hydrochloric acid, and a fizzy explosion.
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Bent out of water

  • 20 Jun, 2011
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Refraction, demonstrated with a cocktail parasol, a river, and a skateboard. Though not all at once. Obviously. That would be silly.
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Nanotechnology

  • 20 Jun, 2011
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Nanotechnology introduced in rap.
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Isaacs Energy Discovery

  • 20 Jun, 2011
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Energy: types, converting, and using it to run around fields.
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3D — Explained

  • 20 Jun, 2011
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How to make 3D glasses and shoot 3D video.
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Physical Force

  • 20 Jun, 2011
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Physics! Spies! Special effects!
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Don’t Make This at Home

  • 19 Jun, 2011
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The elements comprising a human body, cooked up in a kitchen.
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