"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
The Best Film or Video explaining and illuminating the classic Scientific Method in a clear, informative and entertaining way:
how science works
how science is applied to solve problems
why science is more accurate than "guessing" ?
how science helps humanity
what are the aspects of science? facts... hypothesis... theory... peer review... ?
Open to anyone, any age, anywhere in the world! If you can hold a camera and edit, you can enter.
ENTRANCE CATEGORIES will include Elementary School (individuals and classrooms), Secondary School, University, and Professional / Amateur Filmmakers.
Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1985 President, Hauptman-Woodward Institute Buffalo, New York, United States
Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman
Niles Eldredge has been a paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History since 1969. His specialty is the evolution of trilobites—a group of extinct arthropods that lived between 535 and 245 million years ago.
Eldredge’s main professional passion is evolution. The theory of “punctuated equilibria,” developed with Stephen Jay Gould in 1972, was an early milestone.
Dr. Carlson is a renowned science writer and educator whose passion is to help budding young scientists develop their talents and do great things in the world. He is the only person ever awarded the highly prestigous MacArthur Fellowship for achievements in science education. Dr. Carlson is the founder and Executive Director of the Society for Amateur Scientists, a former columnist for Scientific American, a scientific and technical advisor for Popular Mechanics, and the author of the first interactive college-level physics text book, Core Concepts in Physics, Harcourt Brace, amongst many other distinctions.
Dr. Carlson's work has been popularized throughout national media outlets, including the Lerher News Hour, Donahue, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek and Parade Magazine. Dan Rather profiled Dr. Carlson in his book, The American Dream, 2001, Harper Collins, pp 220-228
Dr. Carlson is also the creative force behind both Dr. Shawn's Super Science Project Support Site and the Labrats Science Education Program.
Jok Church receives more mail from children than anyone except Santa Claus. And he depends on those letters. They all contain questions about the world and how it works. Church answers those questions from children in newspapers, in books and software, at science museums, and on the Internet and TV.
Jok Church created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California. He did it for free, hoping to mail clippings of the comic to other newspapers. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.
"Beakman & Jax" is now in nearly 300 newspapers. Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the CBS television series Beakman's World based on the comic strip, and helped create the museum exhibit that has toured science centers and museums continually since 1998.
Church is also the author and narrator of classroom CD-ROMs from the National Geographic Society on plant life, systems in the human body and on sex education. He consults as an early education specialist for clients such as Apple Computer and Leap Frog.
Church splits his time between a home in Northern California and a farm in the hills of Tennessee.
Books by Jok Church from Andrews McMeel Publishing include: You Can with Beakman: Science Stuff You Can Do You Can with Beakman & Jax: Way More Science Stuff You Can Do You Can with Beakman & Jax: More Science Stuff You Can Do
Jok Church
Howard Bloom
has been called “the Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century” by Britain's Channel 4 TV and "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine. Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution's End says,"I have finished Howard Bloom's two books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain,... and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done..... I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom's on the planet."
Kendrick Frazier is a science writer and editor with special interests in the earth sciences, astronomy, the relationships between science and the public, philosophical issues of science, and critiques of pseudoscience. Ken is a former Editor of Science News magazine in Washington (1971-1977) but has lived in Albuquerque with his family since 1977.
He has written four books:
PEOPLE OF CHACO (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1986: softcover 1987; with a new chapter 1999; updated and expanded edition, 2005)
SOLAR SYSTEM (Time-Life Books, lead book in Planet Earth Series 1985)
OUR TURBULENT SUN (Prentice-Hall, 1982, hardcover and softcover, selection of the History Book Club)
THE VIOLENT FACE OF NATURE (Morrow, 1979)
He is also editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, a unique international bimonthly journal (circ. 35,000) devoted to the defense of science and reason. It encourages scientific inquiry, critical thinking, and the use of reason in examining important issues. It also publishes critical investigations and scientific evaluations of fringe-science and paranormal claims. The nonprofit organization that publishes it (the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly CSICOP) is made up of distinguished scientists from all fields, philosophers, scholars, and writers.
He is also editor of five books. All are anthologies of articles from the Skeptical Inquirer, all published by Prometheus Books. The two most recent are ENCOUNTERS with THE PARANORMAL: Science, Knowledge, and Belief and THE UFO INVASION (co-edited with Barry Karr and Joe Nickell). Others are THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY, SCIENCE CONFRONTS THE PARANORMAL, and PARANORMAL BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE.
Donald F. Glut
Donald F. Glut
Writer Director Producer Author: The Empire Strikes Back (novel) Author: The Dinosaur Encyclopedia
Biography
David Heeley
David Heeley
Emmy Award winning Director, Producer. Former Producer: Nature (PBS) Former Director: Sesame Street (PBS)
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Science Milestones from Western New York
Great Science comes from the United States and the Buffalo and Erie County region:
Bell Aircraft: The X-planes
The First Jet Plane Flight
The First Helicopter Flight
The Buffalo Museum of Science
Curtis-Wright
Praxair
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
and more.
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