Astronomical Twilight

Shot at Beaudry Provincial Park – Left is Venus, Right is Mercury

Oobleck!

Well, after a little bit of a delay (both work and a quick trip down to SF – w00t!) the last of the Museum’s Spring Break science demos is up and posted! This time, we’re mixing a little bit of corn starch, a little bit of water and a lot of bass rumble! Take a look —

Sound Cannon!

Smoke rings, ftw!

Rubens’ Tube Redux!

Rubens’ Tube video is complete and is up on YouTube! Two down, two more to go!

Sound Tube of Science!

Finally starting to slow down at work after a crazygonuts spring break! I’ve got a bunch of pics and vids to go through, but I uploaded one of our experiments to the tubes! Enjoy

Fire Down Below!

Because one fire breathing sound tube is never enough!

conjunctionjunction

Poor plastic tripod almost didn’t make it through these photos, but I’m glad that it, the camera and my fingers all made it though another frigid prairie night to snap a few shots of the Venus Moon conjunction Let’s do this again in Summer!

Ruben’s Tube

Progress on our Spring Break demos is moving along nicely! Here’s Bert testing out our new Ruben’s tube for Sounds like Science…

Getting excited!

Fly away home…

Two more pictures from today (the benefits of having to leave my camera work!) 1st up is tart plates repelling off of the Van der Graff generator. 2nd is our pet Emperor Scorpion, Pinchy! Cute little guy, especially in blacklight!

Do not adjust your set…

Playing around with adding a couple of experiments to our electrifying science demos! Tried doing this by hand, but I made an unfortunate path to ground, which wouldn’t be so bad, if I didn’t have a pile of these demos tomorrow morning and I don’t think my hand could take it :S Want to try this again if I can get a totally dark room, but it’s a pretty good start. I’ve heard rumblings of a neon tube kicking around, somewhere, which would make an awesome addition!