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Steve Spangler Science Video FeedNew Videos from Steve Spangler Sciencehttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/en-USCopyright 2008 Steve Spangler Scienceinfo@stevespanglerscience.com720Egg, Balloon and Bottlehttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000166http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000166<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000166">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/eggbottle.jpg"> Here's a classic science experiment that is more than a hundred years old and is guaranteed to fool your friends. The original demonstration used a hard-boiled egg and a milk bottle. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:09:54 -0600Science and the Olympicshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000037http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000037<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000037">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/floatingballs-81108.jpg"> I can't help but be amazed by the high-tech science that we're seeing at this year's Summer Olympics. The name of the game in so many of the sports is to reduce any opposing resistance. In some instances, the athlete can actually use other competitors to block the wind (drafting in cycling). What does any of this have to do with floating beach balls and flying toilet paper? That fast-moving air flowing around the object creates an area of lower pressure and gives the athlete an advantage. Thanks Bernoulli. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:35:26 -0600Glowing Germs and Microbeshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/glo-germ-and-giantmicrobeshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/glo-germ-and-giantmicrobes<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/glo-germ-and-giantmicrobes">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/glogerm-81108.gif"> Whether we like to believe it or not we live in a world filled with germs, bacteria, viruses and other creepy crawly things. It is hard to teach kids about germs when you can't see them. But, what if kids could play with giant germs or could even see simulated germs on their hands and anything they touch? Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:17:20 -0600UV Beads Change Color in Sunlighthttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000118http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000118<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000118">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/uvbeads-72808.jpg"> Don't use your skin as detector of ultra-violet light (UV), try experimenting with Energy Beads or UV Beads. These indicator beads change color when exposed to UV light. It's an amazing way to test the effectiveness of sun screen or to see if UV light is really blocked out by filters in sun glasses. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:00 -0600Mountain Pine Beetle http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mountain-pine-beetlehttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mountain-pine-beetle<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mountain-pine-beetle">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/pinebark-72808.jpg"> Patches of red pine trees blanket Colorado's high country and serve as a warning for an an incredible forest fire that will be unlike anything the state of Colorado has ever experienced. You can't blame this one on drought, but instead a tiny little black beetle living just under the bark. According to Colorado State forestry officials, an estimated 750,000 acres of trees have been killed by the Mountain Pine Beetle' -- and this is just the beginning. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:45:29 -0600Science in the Rockies 08http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/dont-try-this-at-home.htmlhttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/dont-try-this-at-home.html<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/dont-try-this-at-home.html">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/teachertraining8.jpg"> What happens when you put 150 teachers from 23 states and three countries in the same room for three days with a team of instructors who are over-the-top excited about teaching science? Enthusiasm for making science fun spreads like a virus. Concerns about test scores, curriculum changes or the ever-changing pressures of being a teacher seem to vanish. For three days, these teachers put their worries aside and focus on ways to bring wonder, discovery and exploration back into their classrooms. Here's a glimpse at what happened at Science in the Rockies this year... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:11:00 -0600Smash! Boom! Bang!http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000052http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000052<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000052">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/smashboombang-7708.jpg"> You've probably heard of rubbing two sticks together to make fire... but who would think of using large steel ball bearings to make fire? Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:00 -0600Teachers Armed with Potato Gunshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000147http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000147<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000147">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/potatogunsitr-71108.jpg"> Teachers attending this year's Science in the Rockies training taught by Steve Spangler enjoy a potato gun battle in the early morning hours on the last day of the workshop. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:54 -0600Mentos Soda Pop Drophttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mentos-soda-popdrophttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mentos-soda-popdrop<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/mentos-soda-popdrop">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/mentospopdrop-7708-video.jpg"> Steve's son, Jack Spangler, decided that it is just too hard to pour soft drinks by turning a 2-liter bottle of soda upside down. The bottle is just too heavy. So Jack decided to use the power of Mentos and Diet Coke to fill 6 glasses at once and solve his problem. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:38:27 -0600Geysers & Exploding Watermelonshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/exploding-watermelonshttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/exploding-watermelons<a href="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/exploding-watermelons">Read Experiment and Watch the Video</a> <img src="http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/img/cache/bcb9b8db117ee64376aedaf7af3595ca/explod-watermelons-7308.jpg"> Steve Spangler could not resist the temptation to mix up his own formula for fun on 4th of July. Steve celebrates the Fourth with some liquid fireworks and a new 4th of July tradition... watermelon carving. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:48:17 -0600