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Video: World’s Most Asked Questions: Why is the Sky Blue?
People ask Google everything under the sun. One of the most commonly searched questions in the world is “Why Is the Sky Blue?” Allow us at SciShow to explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yli-yvNy-k
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Article: Rudolph and relatives have UV vision
The reindeer of the high north can see light that is invisible to our eyes. This is a big advantage in a snow white landscape. http://sciencenordic.com/rudolph-and-relatives-have-uv-vision
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Article: How Bees See, And Why It Matters
Scientists consider bees to be a keystone species. They are so important to an ecosystem that it will collapse without them. At least 90 commercially grown crops depend upon bee pollination for survival. How important is the pollination by bees? Ask an almond grower. Without bees, there would be no almonds. Apples, blueberries, cherries, avocados,…
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Project: Light and Optics: Building the impossible kaleidoscope
In this section we will build a toy called the Polariscope. As you can see from the above photograph, the Polariscope makes patterns of beautiful colors, somewhat like a kaleidoscope, but by an entirely different mechanism. Learn more in this lesson project by Sci-toys. https://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/light/polariscope.html
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What is Polage Art?
Artist Austine Wood Comarow talks about her art and how the materials make color without any pigments or dyes. https://vimeo.com/296214230
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Video: Tour of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum – Introduction
Find out about the science and applications of the electro magnetic spectrum in this NASA Science video.
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Video: PHYSICS GIRL EXPERIMENT- Only some humans can see this type of light
Join Physics girl on a tour of polarized light and learn how to do a simple project to see the invisible.
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Video: How Bees See
Dr Adrian Dyer invented this mechano-optical device, which emulates the 7,000 individual lenses of a bee’s compound eye. Find out more in this video. http://theconversation.com/our-bee-eye-camera-helps-us-support-bees-grow-food-and-protect-the-environment-110022
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Project: Polariscope
Make your own polariscope from polarizing film and old 3D glasses in this project from Industructables. https://www.instructables.com/id/Polariscope/
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BioSTEAM: Make an Interactive Polarized Light Visualizer!
Pollinator eyes are specialized to see wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum that we can’t see like ultra violet light that helps them navigate to nectar rich flowers or even prey. Pollinators like bees, butterflies and bats can also see qualities of light that we can’t see with our eyes alone like the light polarization that…
