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Great Video About Infrared Light
Make It has been making Infrared Scopes for some time now. Travis learned a way to make infrared goggles. We were able to find less expensive materials and make tons of one eyed scopes with museum visitors. The scopes we make block out all but the lowest light visible to our eyes.
The other day I found a great video that explains infrared radiation. The goggles and cameras in this video are different because they take radiation lower than our eyes can see and change it into a display that is visible. Check it out.
Liz – May 16, 2007 – 4:02pmLiz's blog – login to post comments
Cleaing out my inbox
I've been cleaning out my Inbox of really old emails. I found a couple emails I'd sent myself about science stories.
Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device is a funny little story. The younger a person is, the higher the frequency of the sound they can hear. Here's another explanation of the Mosquito Noise Repellent and how it's used against teens. Make It does a couple of projects about hearing, especially Vocal Chord Cups.
Here's one about bacteria-powered motors. Check out the motors Make It makes with visitors.
An article about how our brain understands information from our eyes. Make it does a bunch of projects with sight including Thaumotropes, 3d Pictures, Pinhole cameras, and Zoetropes.
Finally, a little blurb about exotic materials. Make It is working on a couple of projects using dilatants. Right now we're working out how to not make a mess with the materials.
Liz – January 26, 2007 – 3:20pmLiz's blog – login to post comments
alternate forms of power
Some of the Make It team members are working on balloon powered cars and rubber band powered cars. Today we watched three videos about alternate forms of energy.
Road trip is a video about the cost of driving.
Ethanol vs. gasoline is a video about the cars that have "flexible fuel engines" or engines that can run on ethanol.
The Wind Power Project is a long video about a wind project in California. We only watched the first segment of this video. We skipped the segments about "The Price of Urban Renewal" and The San Diego Hotel.
For more information on alternative energy, check out these stories on the Science Buzz.
Liz – November 18, 2006 – 2:13pmLiz's blog – login to post comments
bird flu virus
info about vaccine found in London, England
I'm interest in this because it's about something that happening around the world. It a major event that is killing a lot of peoplearound the world.
Keng V – August 8, 2006 – 3:24pmKeng V's blog – login to post comments
Clocks
Today was my first day back in two weeks. We read an article about a clock tht is run on a single mercury ion. The most percise clock was one that ran on cesium. The cesium clock would be off by one second for every 70 million years. The new mercury clock would only be off by one second every 700 million years.
Kirsten – July 24, 2006 – 12:44pmKirsten's blog – login to post comments
Camera attachment to make 3-D anaglyph images
Here are some instructions from Instructables.com that shows how to make a camera attachment that can take 3-D anaglyph images. It looks pretty cool.
It's a nice complement to the project that Cameron and Alina have been working on.
Travis – May 4, 2006 – 12:08pmlogin to post comments
The Clock of the Long Now
This is a news story about the "Clock of the Long Now". Check it out.
Kia V – April 29, 2006 – 12:17pmKia V's blog – login to post comments
research
Today I read two different stories that me and mike are going to tell with are thaumatropes. One of the articles I read is that there are a lot of students That attend the college YALE and they and a porfessor are reseaching all about the mind and how it work when a person is looking at an illusion.They have found that the mind has difficulty when there is an illusion that is large,but when the image is small the mind tends to over expand the image in the persons mind. This proubly why some optical illusions may hurt or make your eyes hurt because of all the stuff going on in you mind at one time. Other that the recearchers are curently finding more about how the mind works.
lil_John – April 27, 2006 – 4:35pmlil_John's blog – login to post comments
Optical Illusions
Here are two news stories about how the brain understands the information our eyes send.
Reserachers explore the senses
Research challanges concept that motion is all black and white
Big B – April 22, 2006 – 2:33pmBig B's blog – login to post comments
3D Imaging News
Researchers are using 3-D imaging to study fish from the inside out. This will help scientists understand what is happening inside fishes bodies.
Click on the stories below to find out more.
Alina S – April 22, 2006 – 2:19pmAlina S's blog – login to post comments
