FUTURE BILL BEATY'S VIDEOS (2008)
* This show's philosophyALREADY DONE:
- * brain modification: cross one eye
- * brain modification: echo speech
- * make your own "poor-man's liquid nitrogen"
- * trafficwaves zen driving lecture
- * improved 'robot voice'
- * the hand-holos in the sun
- * ultrasonic mayhem 2: cola fountain
- * microwave melt beer bottle
- * field-view steel wool bottle
- * antigrav camera chamber
- * bead supermagnet bucky sphere
- * bead supermagnet tricks
- * capacitor ion vacuum pump
- * having of ideas #1
- * dry ice chips on water tray (try it without water)
- * disgustoscope!
- * toy mutations, examples
- * air threads HV dry ice
- * ultra-simple coil generator
HIGH COOLESS FACTOR
- Halloween: laser eyes, employs your own actual eyeballs
- Halloween: animated tattoos
- Simple Generator II : narrow, 3-phase, rotary pseudo-iron, hamster power
- VANISHING MATTER EFFECT, foam, sugar
- ultrasonic mayhem #1: surface-charring, bubble layers, beams
- fiber optics ...for sound. 10 micron microphone.
- lethal 12v gyroscope, another "adult toy"
- build a plasma bulb
- Art proposal: giant dual-tornado emission device
- plasma mug teardown, rotating plasma w/supermagnet
- variable plasma streamers, TDK
- Fiestaware, torbernite, americium, vernon
- Tesla's forever light bulbs: ind lamp unboxing, teardown
- Tesla: break a lit neon sign in neon
- holos: short video of making a "V"
- holos: making lines in 3D, art holos for sale, 360-viewed rotating box & ?dodecahedron?
- aluminum dynamic fractal surface
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Lost Tesla secrets, device-build:
- - FM freq-hopping tranceiver
- - "Radiant" plate chopper receiver
- - Inverse coil idea, excites 8Hz Schumann resonance
- - "Programmable" lightning
- IR-plastic black sheets, black cases, BW security cameras, secret message T-shirts
- nerd life-hacks. shy public speaking, anorak, toy pockets, kill-BO
- better argon plasma globe
- ion beam fog layer. distance?
- ion beam audio tailor anim
- That death ray boat
- Radium watch hand, GM counters
- resonant 60Hz telegraph w/piezo disks
- bulid a neutrally bouyant boulder: antigravity asteroid
- VDG three kinds of sparks, and type-II lightning
- just exalclty what *IS* a Tesla Coil?
- lenyr's zincite oscillator
- spy beam speckle
- overseer, bowing the stone, link NT heartbeat story
- Tesla's earthquake machine, the danterous unexpected secret
- HAVING IDEAS II: Mad Scientists dare to "drink from the fire hose"
- toy mutations: techniques & hints
- lahar pyroclastic duststorm avalanche
- Dr. Fronk-ensteen's AC motor diary, "How I Did It"
- Tesla's central secret, nearly killed on Serbian hilltop
- Edison motor vs Tesla motor, the $20,000 edison joke
- DIY laminar head, hissing 'glass' rods, don't cross the streams!
- N. Tesla's single-wire energy conductor
- New Traf anims: infinite jam, vigilante, close-pak myth, exit osc., 2-state merging
- all charge-detector activities
- wineglass w/water, rotr beams, e magnet, dual-speaker shatr, multi-fingr
- Tibetan howling bowl, data storage, chirp waves
- Chirp and antichirp weapon
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o god no, somebody please stop me: the pranks collection
- x-ray phantom body parts, lithard ads for renta cop
- green mall fountain
- video store alarm fail
- stinkray weapon, chargeray delusionator
- sidewalk rainbows, try gelatin
- ceiling-mounted auto-tapper
- library elevator, steamtunnel electric eye
- x-ray umbrella rant yessss...
- Slotin's glowing sphere, we're already dead
- Swimming pool faraday soliton wave, bubble cloud acoustics
- Brad's Tesla coil party: plastic neon sign without vacuum
- Brad's fire party: Kim Hall fire tornado, giant scout candle
- carve a pumpkin with neon sign transformer? Works? Try pickles.
- carve a pickle w/1000w heater, clear pickle, strontium.
- 9volt battery chain, cut open battery, burn initials, carve pickle
- fake 3D cerenkov glow, make the Slotin radioactive death hemisphere
- undercam, knock rocks in cloud, or bubble sound in cup
- x-rays with tesla coil and small light bulb, grain of wheat pile
- smoke from your mouth, gleet
- desktop demo: origin of the "mushroom neck" in A-bomb blasts
- restaurant candle engineering, flame-jet
- kill-BO, save water
- MOS exhibit: electron-beam
- MOS exhibit: e-field aura tester
- all goldenrod-paper demos
- DDW and high voltage, pick up water like ferrofluid! (add some black dye?)
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microwave oven demos (ALL of them)
- * melt a beer bottle
- stable pool of plasma
- argon lightning storm
- argon in bottle
- light bulb plasma globe
- ionizer bulb?
- xmas ornament
- CD crack growth explained, microscope, 1-ohm 0805 resistor, etc.
- mirror-chip solar furnace and art projector
- fluor tube art, westinghouse, filaments, tesla super-science, hold moving-plasma tube
- carving watermelon EDM (works? add salt?)
- Electric Glowing pickle, done with salty jello, agar, sodium nitrate, potassium chloride
PROBABLY POPULAR
OTHERS:
- sunspot telescope, 2sec sundial, bend a mirror square
- must re-do unwise microwave melted bottle (flagged as over-18!)
- explaining airfoil lift, pump, helicopter, vortex-shedding
- testing "cold fusion" claims
- a DC tesla coil - voices from the air, glowing t-shirt effect, etc.
- A real Steampunk radio: Tesla's mechanical receivers
- air-threads reed relay nanoamp sensor
- all air-threads demos
- squealing wall laser demo
- my old 1992 maglev cradle
- red/green electricity lecture
- floating graphite plate with grid of tiny magnets
- calculating the speed of sound in a dictionary, catalog, foam
- heavy-air sub-bass resonator
- tiny tesla coils, burn wires, light tubes
- touch the clouds, humidifier activities
- humidifier clouds (on dry ice CO2 pool?)
- Mr. Wizard the asshole: HUUUUGE pile of purple-black powder. little kid touch with feather.
- MOS exhibit: vis electricity box
- ion stream immune from air blast
- genecon driving a vis-electricity device
- Slow sound in foam, sand dunes, resonating a book w/loudspeaker, organ made of databooks, sound of single bubbles in aquarium! Vary bubble size! 2rocks in pool
- Rijke tube w/hot wires/screen, sucks up propane, helium, CO2, droplet-filled air, flour, lycopodium. Plug one end. stack of hot/cold screens. dry-ice backwards rijke. water-filled Rijke tube, hi freq.
- Kelvin's thunderstorm, hot needles, HV supply, charged ring and uA meter, NE-2 blinker?!!
- Kelvin's thunderstorm half: with microamp meter, with balloon charge
- Kelvin's thunderstorm, inline version
- demos from my "hoaxes" page
- Giant Schieren photography DIY with retro screen
- sticky electrostatics demos
- how microscopes actually work
- other neodymium supermagnet
- tornado box
- MISCONCEPTIONS, lens diagram, bad textbook illustrations
- PIRA balloon demos
- maglev train w/linear drive motor magnet strip (circular track?) (reed sw vers?)
- cat toy circuit, crt
- Feynman's paramecium
- Listen to paramecia talking (what happens if we talk back? Never tried!)
- The very first "quarter shrinker"
- tour of my garage
- The Kryptonian hyper-Oboe
- N. Tesla's fluidic motor/generator, desalinize, water-maker
- N. Tesla's victolon super-laminate, cockpit bubble, herculite
- my box of toys
- Grasshopper vision eyeball
- Photos, with and without infrared
- buid a one dollar mirror focus solar furnace (1" blur spot!)
- big supermagnet tricks
- do some "hoaxes," kids w/mirrors "Wave" soundwave w/cards
- seeing sound, do some Winston Kock photos
- Coke cans: balance on edge, beatbox, nipple-cola, de-embiggening, sudden-condense steam, cross eyes big giant head, de-foaming shaken
Make b-fields visible using diamagnetic water, overhead projector! it... DOESN'T WORK! Blurred, so try a slit or a pinhole on bulb?
USEFUL SCIENCE CONCEPTS
- Droplet growth/evap supersat, traffic jam growth, seed crystals
- NE-2 bulb tricks
- Lasers explained with waves
- Antennas cast EM shadows
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THE SHOW'S PHILOSOPHY
- 1. NOT AIMED AT THE TV AUDIENCE, NOR EVEN AT YOUTUBE
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These YT videos are meant only for myself, but me ...at age 9yrs!
This series is a set of adult secrets that I'd wished I'd known
about, back when I was a kid.
Imagine that you had a machine which lets you pass messages back in time to your early years. Which cool secrets and weird tricks do you wish you'd known about back then? My own childhood isn't accessible, too bad. But wait! The childhoods of millions of future adults are sitting right there online, waiting to be altered! :) Make no mistake, this is not about 'Teaching Important Science Facts.' Instead it's about revealing secret tricks and techniques that only grownups know about.
- 2. FEATURE SOME EMBARRASSINGLY CRUDE, SEMI-INCOMPETENT DEMOS
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My goal isn't to impress other teachers. That would just convince kids
that science is way complicated & adults-only. Instead my goal is to
lead kids into saying something like this: "Hey, I could make one of those...
but MINE WOULD BE BETTER." So my demos need to be crafted so that an
adult science expert will sneer at their crudeness and simplicity. (But
in saying that, I realize that R. Feynman would probably be impressed
because they are so crude and simple. New goal: impress Feynman.)
- 3. DO INTERESTING DEMOS AND STUNNING PHENOMENA ONLY
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Imagine which kind of odd science secrets would have driven you crazy
with joy, back when you were nine.
- 4. AVOID THE "EXPERT LOOK"
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No professional w/labcoat and glasses. Keep any advanced degrees hidden;
instead do some Redneck Science. No suit and tie. Carefully preserve
the look of an out-of-shape loser in a t-shirt. Don't shave. Don't
clean the kitchen mess. Maybe even blacken a tooth for that white trash
look. [Update: I lost a huge filling between front teeth! Cool! Made
many videos, but can't tell if anyone noticed. LATER UPDATE: finally
had it repaired. No more gap-toothed weirdo look.]
- 5. USE NO LABORATORY
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Perform demonstrations on a grubby kitchen counter. Or even better, on
a living room couch ...in my lap. Keep pushing the cat away.
- 6. BREAK VIDEO TRADITIONS
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No classroom lecture, no professional studio, not even a lab bench.
Use tiny handheld camera in the talent's own viewpoint (often clamped
under his chin!)
- 7. ELIMINATE ALL JARGON: REPLACE OBSCURE TERMS WITH THEIR FULL DEFINITIONS
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Don't say Alternator, say "AC electric generator." Never say ions,
instead say "electrically charged atoms." Say "charge flow" instead of
electric current, and "energy flow" instead of Power.
- 8. CAREFULLY AVOID USING EXISTING DEMOS
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There's no passion in plagarism. So, try to exclude known demos,
instead pull new ideas out of nowhere.
- 9. EASILY-FOUND MATERIALS ONLY
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Replace gleaming acrylic and machined aluminum with dirty cardboard.
Buy all your science equipment from the grocery store, or if there's
no other option, from Home Depot and Radio Shack.
- 10. NO TOOLS NEEDED
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When I was a kid, drilling a hole in wood was nearly impossible. Our
family was all gradeschool teachers with a kitchen tool drawer, no power
tools. I only had pointy scissors. Cardboard, glue, and mayo jars are
OK. A razor knife really is just for older students.
- 11. USE EXPERIMENTS THAT ALWAYS WORK
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If it requires considerable expertise to make the demo succeed, it'll be
guaranteed to turn kids off to science. Never forget that if kids fail
to get the demo working, they'll feel incompetent and blame themselves.
Avoid including any such "psychological toxin" which kills off the
scientist in everyone.
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