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PRE-SPACE ERA

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WATCH:
Videos to enhance chapters:

THE FASTEST MAN OFF EARTH:
  • Joe Kittinger in the stratosphere

FASTER, HARDER, HEAVIER, HIGHER:
  • Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the X-1
  • Dr. John Paul Stapp riding his rocket sled, the Sonic Wind


SPACE

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Content related to chapters:

SPACE ROCKS

LOST IN SPACE

TOUR OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM:
THE SPIN
  • Near Earth Asteroid watch
  • Space Weather Prediction Center
  • How to track space junk online
  • Planetary Fact Sheet

WATCH:
  • NASA'S ATHLETE Rover Busts a Move (on Earth)


PARTICIPATE:
You can help astronomers map the Moon. Start mapping at Moon Zoo!_

SPACE HISTORY
April 12

50 YEARS AGO

WATCH:
  • Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961

30 YEARS AGO

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STS-1, the first space shuttle mission was flown by the shuttle Columbia in 1981.

Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen pose for their official NASA portrait.


PHYSICS

WATCH:

Water levitated by sound
  • Tibetan Water Bowls


The Beautiful Side of Physics
  • Pendulum Waves


Out of synch metronomes synch up on their own.
  • Synchronizing Metronomes

SCIENCE NEWS

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WATCH:

The  only daily science news, nature and technology show on TV:
  • Daily Planet



  • 1 Minute Science

  • Actually, The Brain Cafe was first & if it had mega resources, would be like this site

READ:
  • New Scientist
  • National Geographic
  • NASA Science News
  • 10 Weird Psychology Studies
  • Psychology Today


READ:

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GAMES, TESTS
& EXPERIMENTS

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TESTS:
  • The BRAIN CAFE'S Flicker Experiments

  • Selective Attention Test - Count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball

To enhance chapter:

PSYCH! SEEING & BELIEVING

  • Attentional Blindness: Dr. Richard Wiseman
  • Flash-Beep Experiment

PLAY:
Hunt for black holes based on their sound
  • Black Hole Hunter
  • 35 science-based games to play online
  • MindBender Quiz

WATCH:
  • Optical Illusions




PLANET EARTH

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WATCH:
Video related to chapter

Back from the Brink:
PEREGRINE FALCONS
  • Peregrine Falcon Recovery

More from EarthTones: Stories Eva wrote & produced  for Discovery Channel  CA in 2000. EE is not responsible for the opening anims and music.
  • Loons & Mercury
  • DDT
  • Tree DNA & O.J. Simpson
  • Killer Whale Fin  ID
  • Cleaning Up Crude Oil
  • Radioactive Fallout
  • Stella the Mutant Cherry
  • Multi-Beam Sonar Scanner
  • Mining Technology

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To complement chapter: THE PLASTIC OCEAN
  • Flotsametrics
Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer's book about tracking yellow rubber duckies and other stuff lost at sea.

WATCH:

  • Charles Moore, discoverer of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch



NATURE

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GETTING A GRIP ON GECKOS

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photo: Kellar Autumn
  • Pictures & scanning electron microscope images of gecko feet by Dr. Kellar Autumn



Related to chapter:

THE  ELEPHANT  LONG  DISTANCE CALLING PLAN
  • Elephant Voices
A site dedicated to elephants


Other Elephant Sites:

WATCH:
  • Elecam: See live elephants streamed from 14 cameras in the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
  • Meet the girls at the Elephant Sanctuary

SURF:
  • Amboseli Elephant Trust
  • David Shedrick Wildlife Trust


THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

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LISTEN:
Sounds to enhance chapters:

THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE:
  • The Earth's hum recreation

SNACK ATTACK: ICE CREAM
  • Ocean waves
  • Deep fryer

WATCH:

To enhance chapter:

THE MUSICIAN'S BRAIN
  • Your brain on guitar 

Watch the original experiment. Listen as the musicians play a simple duet, and see their brainwaves as they play. The first six lines are the brainwaves of the guitarist on the right. The next six line are the brainwaves of the  guitarist on the left. The bottom two lines  are the frequencies from the first and second guitar.

WATCH & LISTEN:

Kilauea: the volcano's song

FOOD, DRINK & SEX

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READ:
Mindboggling facts related to chapters:

PSYCH! MY DINNER WITH BRIAN:

  • Mindless Eating
Dr. Brian Wansink's book

WATCH:

See the dancing video described in  chapter PARTY TIME!

Find out if you have the right moves.
  • All the right dance moves with Dr. Peter Lovatt


WOMEN, MEN & PETS

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PET CONNECTIONS

PARTY TIME!

OF WOMEN & MEN

Dr. Richard Wiseman's
  • Quirkology.com


AMAZING ANIMALS

WATCH:

A mindboggling encounter with a leopard seal in the Antarctic from National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen.


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