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“If you can’t find a #14 welder’s glass, get a handheld mirror, cover it with a piece of paper or cardboard with a dime-sized hole cut in it - stand facing the sun - project the magnified reflected image of the sun on the shaded side of a building or a cardboard in the direction of the sun. Remember: do not stare directly at the eclipse!” Thank you, Mr. Slobin! Onward!
Our good friend Steven Slobin of Jet Propulsion Laboratory recommends using this #14 welder’s glass through which to view the eclipse. It’s got to be #14. Anything less and humans can damage their eyes. We’ll be posting more of Mr. Slobin’s eclipse tips tomorrow! In the mean time, here is a fantastic site with all the information you’ll need: http://shadowandsubstance.com/
As part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival (a nation-wide event), The Amoeba People will be performing today at the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, CA (12400 Columbia Way) at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. The cost for the event is only $5 and there will be a robotics lab as well as rocket building and many other exciting activities, plus your favorite extraterrestrial rock band. See you there! Onward!
This audio poem (set to an infectious beat) is an ode to those hard-working scientists who carry tiny hammers and chip away at Earth’s crust, uncovering the mysteries of the planet’s natural history. This free download is in honor of National Poetry Month in the U.S. ONWARD!
And if the song is any good, we’ll post it as a free download next week along with a new poem about the planet’s hard-working geologists. Onward!
Even more research for the album
Research for the album.
Recording our new album requires us to have this field guide in hand everywhere we go. Invaluable.
The “Wall O’ Phones” in the M51 Records Laboratory.
Mr. Hedgpeth dons a pair of studio-quality Califone headphones.
