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How to collect black sand with a magnet
If you're ever at a beach with some black sand in the mix, run a magnet through the sand to see if the black sand sticks. Exploratorium educator Ken Finn demonstrates this experiment with a magnet and a plastic cup at...
Henry Fox Talbot, the First Photographs, and the Pioneers of Photography
The invention of the photograph, in 1839, would forever change the way people looked at the world. But this extraordinary breakthrough cannot be credited to a single individual—while William Henry Fox Talbot labored q...
Sweet (& savory) morning buns with chef April Bloomfield & Tartine
In the kitchen at Tartine, San Francisco's popular bread bakery and cafe, chef April Bloomfield observes how their morning buns are made. Tartine's Chad Robertson mixes the ingredients and preps the dough with layers ...
Scott Weaver’s ‘Rolling through the Bay’ toothpick sculpture
This nine foot tall wooden sculpture of San Francisco was made with glue and 105,387 and a half toothpicks. It was built by Scott Weaver who, stuck at home at the age of 14 with spinal meningitis, started working in e...
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest on the beach in San Francisco
Join Adam Savage as he talks with Dutch physicist-turned-artist Theo Jansen. The subject: Strandbeests -- “beach animals” in Dutch. For the very first time, Jansen has brought his wind-fueled kinetic sculptures to win...
These Crazy Cute Baby Turtles Want Their Lake Back
Follow these baby western pond turtles, who are being fattened up and well-cared for at both the San Francisco Zoo and Oakland Zoo, to their new home in the Presidio's Mountain Lake. Once polluted, the lake has been r...
Earth Observations: Astronauts search for cities from ISS’ Cupola
What do volcanoes, islands, dry lake beds, and big cities look like from space? Join International Space Station Expedition 38 crew members Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio as they chitchat about Earth's cities and c...
Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou
An animated short film by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon: Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou.
The San Francisco Fire Department’s Ladder Shop
In a windy city that has narrow streets and a lot of high voltage power lines, aluminum ladders may not be the best choice for fighting fires. Watch how ladder builder Jerry Lee makes and repairs antique-looking, hand...
Andres Amador’s Earthscapes: Art that Goes Out with the Tide
In a mix of artistry, geometry, and technology, San Francisco-based Earthscape artist Andres Amador creates massive sketches in the beach sand – sometimes geometric, and sometimes more abstrac...
Police Horse Training
How are police horses chosen to become the highly trained and trusted steeds that they are? Via BBC Earth, watch the police horse testing and training process as conducted by the San Francisco...
San Francisco’s Kei Lun Lion Dancers
San Francisco’s Kei Lun Lion Dancers and their director Corey Chan are dedicated to telling stories that are thousands of years old. Though traditional dance, music, costume-making, and...
Inside the Compost Cycle: Turning waste to nutrient-rich soil
From KQED Science, find out how San Francisco’s 600 tons of compostable waste can be transformed into a dark, nutrient-rich material that will not only feed plants to improve the quality...
Scott Weaver’s Rolling through the Bay: 35 years + 100k toothpicks
Scott Weaver’s Rolling through the Bay, an homage to the city of San Francisco, is made of over 100,000 toothpicks and Elmer’s glue, and was built over 35 years time. This structure was temporarily feature...
Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, 1926
From the Marin County Free Library, cars, boats, trains and a motorless gravity car in 1920s California. The Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad ran from 1896 until 1929 between downt...
Windswept by Charles Sowers
On older buildings, it’s not too uncommon to see the crowning touch of an ornamental weather vane — a rotation device which indicates the wind’s direction. But what happens when a bunch of weather...
Behind the scenes at Tartine Bread
This Chronicle Books video features Chad Robertson, co-owner of Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, and the author of Chronicle’s Tartine Bread, published in 2010: To Chad, bread is the foundation of a meal, ...
Jim Campbell on the genesis of Exploded Views at SFMOMA
Artist Jim Campbell describes the process behind his SFMOMA-commissioned work titled Exploded Views, a 2,880 LED installation in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's atrium in November 2011. From the artist's site...
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