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posted by chromas on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:46PM   Printer-friendly

Quality never goes out of style...The Curiosity Show, a 70s and 80s TV show from Oz that introduced kids to basic science, is enjoying a YouTube-based revival.

Thankfully, the creators got control of the content and have put their work up on YouTube.

The story at ABC.

Highly entertaining, and better yet, engaging curious young minds in the possibilities of the world around them. They even have some episodes in German, which I never knew. Generally aimed at the pre-high-school age, just using basic household props mainly. Puzzles, illusions, basic household chemistry and physics, etc.

Their YouTube channel is here if you've got some kids or are just curious yourself.

To kick off the discussion: what are some other similar shows that should be revived?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:47AM (#753463)

    > how to use your table saw as a lathe to turn a round

    I set up a vertical 1/4" bolt (smooth shank) for a pivot, off to one side of the table saw blade, set into a cross slider in a layer of 3/4" Baltic birch plywood. Suitable slots and sliders allow me to set the pivot anywhere on the saw table. Now it's easy to use the saw to cut smooth circular disks. The disks need a 1/4" center hole and should be roughed out first because the scrap isn't cut when it runs into the far side of the blade.

    Or maybe were you thinking of making spindles (like table legs)? On first thought that does sound scary, since the spindle/work could "gear" to the saw blade and spin at a very high rpm. In this case the saw blade would be used in similar fashion (but reversed) to the cutter blades on a copying lathe (a truly scary machine).

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:56PM (#753692) Journal

    Or maybe were you thinking of making spindles... On first thought that does sound scary, since the spindle/work could "gear" to the saw blade and spin at a very high rpm.

    That's the one.
    The approach is: avoid putting the axis of the spindle transversal the saw blade, do it along it [youtube.com]

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 26 2018, @02:11AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 26 2018, @02:11AM (#753969)

      Thanks for the link to Izzy, lots of interesting ways to use tools, good "outside the box" thinking. Haven't spent much time in my shop in years (reasons), but looking forward to getting back there more often in the future.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 26 2018, @02:26AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 26 2018, @02:26AM (#753974) Journal

        Turning wooden bowls on a table a saw [google.com].
        Izzy strikes again in sophistication [youtube.com] but others are interesting too by the much simple means they employ with good results.

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        Apart from being spectacular by "out-of-box thinking" approaches, those are examples showing video (as a delivery medium) and STEM are not incompatible. Saying that is not different than saying that "books and STEM don't go well together, because reasons"

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford