Exploding hydrogen balloons, a physics professor lying on a bed of nails, shattering glass through the use of sound, and much more!
Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy presents their annual Rutgers Faraday Christmas Children's Lecture – an amazing science demo. (Get there early if you want to get seats at the live show!)
View all shows anywhere over the internet via youtube via this streaming link. Note: overflow seating will be accommodated via an internet TV link to an adjacent classroom.
Speaking of science on the Internet, check out this article:
SCIENTISTS QUIT THEIR DAY JOBS, HEAD OVER TO YOUTUBE
From NPR’s Marketplace:
In the last year, YouTube has become the place to watch really smart people with advanced degrees hold forth on science. The top science channels got hundreds of millions of views with their zippy explanations of dark matter and the periodic table. "Education" videos on YouTube now get twice as many views as "Pets & Animals" videos, according to the company. Science nerds are officially beating out the cat playing a piano, that old juggernaut of online video.
Vsauce, the top YouTube science show, averages 20 million viewers a month—something in the range of NBC’s Sunday Night Football audience. Minute Physics, Crash Course, SciShow and The Brain Scoop are a few of the several shows producing fun, compelling science videos. Even Bill Nye the Science Guy, who hosted an Emmy Award-winning show on PBS in the nineties, has made guest appearances on online shows like ASAP Science. [MORE]
Thank you to Carol Levin from Bridgewater Twp. Public Library for this information!
