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FUTURE BILL B. VIDEOS

ALREADY DONE:
  * make your own "poor-man's liquid nitrogen"
  * trafficwaves zen driving lecture
  * improved 'robot voice'
  * hand-holos in the sun
  * ultrasonic mayhem: cola fountain
  * microwave melt beer bottle
  * field-view steel wool bottle
  * antigrav camera chamber
  * bead supermagnet tricks
  * capacitor ion vacuum pump
  * dry ice chips on water tray (try it without water)
  * disgustoscope!
  * air threads HV dry ice
  * ultra-simple generator

PROBABLY POPULAR
    Tutorial: antibubbles science fair
    simple telescope, how lenses work
    Vandegraaf gen demos
    Virtual halloween costume, UV LEDs
    New microwave oven demo (obsidian lava?  Plasma?)
    Linear motor train: wheeled cart, maglev cart
    Three-phase generator, hamster powered
    IR filter goggles
    all static electricity demos
    elehob project, explain BJT transistor
    static: pop bottle motor and TV set
    static: voltmeas: voltage of peeled tape
    vwatt1: red/green electricity
    ele-edu: rope & pulleys, pump
    tesla: move plasplan to YT
    weird, unusual


HIGH COOLESS FACTOR
     holos: short video of making a "V" holo, 360-viewed rotating box & ?dodecahedron?
     VANISHING MATTER EFFECT, foam, sugar
     ultrasonic mayhem: charring, heat-beam in water tank
     plasma mug, rotating plasma w/supermagnet, inside the HV supply
     aluminum dynamic fractal surface
     IR-plastic black sheets, black cases, BW security cameras, secret message T-shirts
     nerd life-hacks. shyness, anorak, toys in pockets, kill-BO
     better argon plasma globe
     lenyr zincite oscillator
     laminar hissing 'glass' rods, don't cross the streams!
     Traf anim: infinite jam, vigilante, close-pak myth, 2-state merge
     all charge-detector activities
     wineglass w/water, beams, dual-speaker shatter
     Swimming pool faraday soliton wave, bubble cloud
     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?
     9volt battery chain, cut open battery, burn initials, carve pickle
     undercam in sandwich baggie  
     undercam,  bubbles
     undercam, knock rocks in cloud, or bubble sound in cup
     x-rays with tesla coil and small light bulb
     smoke from your mouth, gleet
     restaurant candle engineering, flame-jet
     kill-BO
     MOS electron-beam
     MOS e-field aura tester
     goldenrod-paper demos
     DDW and high voltage, pick up water like ferrofluid!  (add some black dye?)
     microwave oven demos (ALL of them)
       * melt a beer bottle
         stable pool of plasma
         argon lightning storm
         argon in bottle
         light bulb plasma globe
         x-ray generation
         xmas ornament
         CD fractures, plus explanation, microscope, 1-ohm 0805 resistor, etc.
     mirror-chip solar furnace
     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

  testing "cold fusion" claims
  backwards coil, frequency stepdown
  a DC tesla coil - voices from air, glowing t-shirt effect, etc.
  Steampunk radio: Tesla's mechanical receivers
  air threads reed relay nanoamp sensor
  squealing wall laser demo
  old 1992 maglev cradle
  red/green electricity lecture
  floating graphite with grid of tiny magnets
  calculating the speed of sound in a dictionary or thick catalog
  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 memorial video.  HUUUUGE pile of purple-black powder.  little kid touch with feather.
  MOS 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
  quarter shrinker
  tour of my garage
  Kryptonian hyper-Oboe
  my box of toys
  making toy mutations
  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 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 shadows
 


THE SHOW'S PHILOSOPHY

NOT AIMED AT THE TV AUDIENCE, NOR EVEN AT YOUTUBE
  These videos are meant only for me. ...but myself at age nine.   

  What if... you were sending messages into your own past?
  What if a kid had a time machine which could receive video messages 
  from the future; and the vids were made by their adult self?  Which
  cool secrets and weird tricks would an adult scientist want to 
  transmit back to their own childhood?  It's not about Teaching Important
  Science Facts, it's about revealing secret adult tricks/techniques.
CAREFULLY AVOID USING EXISTING DEMOS
  There's no passion in plagarism.  So, try to exclude known demos, 
  instead create new ideas.
DO INTERESTING DEMOS AND STUNNING PHENOMENA ONLY
  Back when you were nine, what kind of odd science videos would have 
  driven you crazy with joy?
FEATURE SOME EMBARRASSINGLY CRUDE, SEMI-INCOMPETENT DEMOS
  My goal isn't to impress other teachers.  That would just convince kids 
  that science is complicated & adults-only.  My goal is to make kids say: 
  "Hey, I could do that too... but mine would be WAY BETTER."   So my 
  demos need to be crafted so that a science teacher will sneer at their 
  crudeness and simplicity.  (But Feynman would probably be impressed 
  because they are so crude and simple.  New goal: impress Feynman.)
ELIMINATE ALL JARGON: REPLACE OBSCURE TERMS WITH THEIR FULL DEFINITIONS
  Don't say "alternator," say "AC electric generator."   Never say "ions," 
  instead say "electrically charged atoms."
BREAK VIDEO TRADITIONS
  No classroom talks, no professional studio, not even a lecture table.  
  Use tiny handheld camera in the talent's own viewpoint (often clamped 
  under chin!)
AVOID THE "EXPERT LOOK."
  No degreed professional w/labcoat and glasses.  Keep my degree hidden; 
  instead do Redneck Science!  Carefully preserve the look of an 
  overweight loser in a t-shirt.  Blacken a tooth.  Don't shave.
USE NO LABORATORY
  Perform demonstrations on a grubby kitchen counter.  Or even better, on 
  a living room couch ...in my lap.
EASILY-FOUND MATERIALS ONLY
  Replace gleaming acrylic and machined aluminum with dirty cardboard.  
  Buy all science equipment from the grocery store, or if we have no other
  option, from Home Depot and Radio Shack.
NO TOOLS NEEDED
  When I was a kid, drilling a hole in wood was nearly impossible. 
  Scissors, cardboard, and glue is OK.  A pocket knife is for the oldest 
  students.
USE EXPERIMENTS THAT ALWAYS WORK
  If it takes considerable expertise to make the demo succeed, it's 
  guaranteed to turn kids off to science, since most kids won't ever get 
  it working.







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