Experiments

Biology

Charles J. Krebs

To learn something about animals by following their tracks.

Biology

Julia Levy

To understand why Levy and her team use red laser light to activate their photodynamic drugs.

Chemistry

Gerhard Herzberg

To demonstrate the conservation of angular momentum, a basic principle of physics. (Angular momentum can be thought of as the energy of turning. When a car is turning, you feel angular momentum as a pulling force to the outside. It’s why you lean into a turn.)

Physics

Werner Israel

To calculate the mass of a typical black hole.

Biology

Biruté Galdikas

Try being a physical anthropologist and make an activity budget for an animal you can observe. You will call this animal your focal animal.

Mathematics

Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter

Make rhombus tiles and use them to make various designs.

Health

Doreen Kimura

To study hand movements during conversation in men and women and to explain why they may be different.

Earth

Roger Daley

To simulate how meteorologists track storm clouds.

Biology

Tak Wah Mak

To calculate the number of possible different T-cell receptors that your body’s immune system can make from just the few hundred protein chains encoded in your immune system DNA.

Biology

Memory Elvin-Lewis

To be an ethnobotanist by discovering a new kind of food in your own home town.

Biology

Walter Lewis

To be an ethnobotanist in your own family.

Biology

William Ricker

To tell the difference between many different varieties of fish.