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Check out here:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/floatingisland.php
I don't think I'd recommend trying the bullet experiment in your
museum... but I've tried comparing pykrete + normal ice (I use quart
milk cartons) and it does indeed melt slower. Plus if you whack the
quart-sized ice cube with a hammer, it shatters easily. Somewhat
impressively, the pykrete can take a real beating before it breaks.
Hmm, that's a good ice experiment, but I don't know that it relates to
climate change which, (I think) is the point behind IGLO. Will any old
ice (or dry ice) experiments suffice, Walter?
Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum
I cannot stress enough that nearly without exception one cannot randomly
combine a collection of circuitry and power supplies into an object and
"accidentally discover" that it is a fully functioning death ray. I
speak here from bitter experience.
-James Kakalios, "The Physics of Super Heroes"
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Subject: I look for ideas to do experiments with ice
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Dear friends.
As an official part of IPY, the ASTC-IGLO project will try to be as
present
whenever possible at the several launch events in 2007. IPY has already
made
some decisions on what they want to see happening on March 1, 2007 all
over
the world. The education department has designed activities to be done
in
schools, based on experiments with ice (see:
http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/education/edudownloads/IPY%20launch%20educati
on%2
0flyer%20TMAG.pdf). Science Centers should have an important role in the
IPY, and for this launch possibly propose other and additional
activities
with ice that are typically science center focused.
I would appreciate your ideas on the best kinds of activities and
demonstrations with ice for science centers so that we can propose them
to
our members. As you probably know, we will meet for a RAP session at the
Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium on January 12 and 13 to discuss,
among others, these types of activities. Your input prior to this
process is
very welcome as well.
Greetings,
Walter Staveloz
Walter Staveloz
Director, International Relations
Association of Science-Technology Centers
1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005-6310, USA
+1 202/783-7200 x118
Cell: +1 202/492 8253
Fax: +1 202/783-7207
www.astc.org
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