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PRE-SPACE ERA

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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
  

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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)

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

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SPACE HISTORY
April 12

50 YEARS AGO

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• Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961

30 YEARS AGO

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.

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PHYSICS

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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

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SCIENCE NEWS

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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

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

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GAMES, TESTS
& EXPERIMENTS

TESTS:

• The BRAIN CAFE'S Flicker Experiments

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

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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

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• Optical Illusions

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PLANET EARTH

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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

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NATURE

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GETTING A GRIP ON GECKOS

photo: Kellar Autumn

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

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THE  ELEPHANT  LONG  DISTANCE CALLING PLAN

• Elephant Voices
  

A site dedicated to elephants


Other Elephant Sites:

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

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• Amboseli Elephant Trust
• David Shedrick Wildlife Trust

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THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

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Sounds to enhance chapters:

THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE:

• The Earth's hum recreation

SNACK ATTACK: ICE CREAM

• Ocean waves
• Deep fryer

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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.

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WATCH & LISTEN:

Kilauea: the volcano's song

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FOOD, DRINK & SEX

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Mindboggling facts related to chapters:

PSYCH! MY DINNER WITH BRIAN:

• Mindless Eating

Dr. Brian Wansink's book

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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
  

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WOMEN, MEN & PETS

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Content related to chapters:

PET CONNECTIONS

PARTY TIME!

OF WOMEN & MEN

Dr. Richard Wiseman's

• Quirkology.com

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AMAZING ANIMALS

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

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