You voted and chose this intense matchup from the depths of darkness, under the water and beyond our earth’s atmosphere.
There are some basic ingredients needed to make thunderstorms and tornadoes.
There are all kinds of volcanoes all over the world, but how are they formed? And how do they erupt?
How are mountains made? What causes an earthquake? How does hot lava come bubbling up? The answer in each case is…tectonic plates!
In this show, he talks with his colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History: Steven Soter, an expert on Earth phenomena and tsunamis throughout history, and James Webster, a geologist who specializes in volcanoes.
From the seminal 1902 movie, A Trip to the Moon, to recent blockbusters like James Cameron’s Avatar, science has been a steady source of inspiration throughout the history of film. But how much of the science presented on the silver screen is accurate, and how much is misguided or just plain wrong?
The Mississippi Delta is experiencing historic flooding, tornadoes recently tore up towns in Alabama, and multiple blizzards buried the Northeastern U.S. last winter.
Actress, comedian, and political activist Janeane Garofalo joins the show to lay out the political theater as she sees it, and cedes no ground on whether scientific issues should ever be a topic of partisan debate.
Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators
Our home planet Earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet.
An earthquake is an intense shaking of Earth’s surface.
