Born to Do Science

We had a great program Saturday! (I always say that, but it's true.) My song was called "Quarks and Electrons." Everything we can touch or see in the universe is made of quarks and electrons. Yet that represents only 4% of what we know is out there! For the first hour Dr. Flera Rizatdinova spoke with us about the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest machine! - and the Atlas Detector. We also explored the Standard Model of particle physics and learned about some mysteries of the universe

The proton-accelerating tube underground at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Howdy friends! I've been looking forward to this coming Saturday's program for a long time! Here is the official description, then I'll tell you more about why I'm so excited... Ramping Up the World's Greatest Physics Experiment Dr. Flera Rizatdinova from the Oklahoma State University Department of Physics will speak about her work on the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The ATLAS is a marvel of

Dr. Karen McBee is an environmental toxicologist at OSU. She and her students study the area of Northeast Oklahoma known as Tar Creek, a superfund site where 100 years or so of mining left huge piles of chat everywhere. (See the previous post!) The basic question she asks is, how does this affect the wildlife? We began the program with a new song, as usual - "What Goes On?" which asks: What goes on - after we’ve left such a mess?What goes on - how does nature handle stress?Humans come to alter every

Coming this Saturday, October 15! The Intrepid White-footed Mouse How Toxic Waste Affects Animal Populations and Diversity Dr. Karen McBee, Curator of Vertebrates with the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University, will speak about her research into what makes some animal species more resilient than others at the Tar Creek Superfund Site. Here's a view of Picher, OK from the air - all those white blotches are mounds of chat left over from 100 years of lead and zinc mining!During