What to Do About Trash? | Tumble Episode
Trash is one of the biggest problems on the planet. But scientists are coming up with solutions that might surprise you. In this Earth Day episode, we meet two researchers who are tackling trash in two very different ways. Kevin Solomon hopes to solve the challenge of recycling plastic with the help of meal worms, and Lily Pollans is figuring out what kids can do to help everyone make less trash. Find out how science can help tackle Earth’s biggest challenges - and how you ca
How to Build a Robotic Eel | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS LS K-ESS3-3, 1-LS1-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Structure and Function What's a robotic eel doing in this lake?! Oh, just testing for water pollution... Envirobot is one of the first robots of its kind: Swimming robots. Or more technically, bio-inspired marine robots . That means that the design of the robot has been inspired by a real animal, who has perfected its movement over millions of years of evolution. "Why reinv
The Voyage of the Ocean Trash with Jenni Brandon | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS K-ESS3-3, 5-ESS2-1 Crosscutting Concept: Cause and Effect Systems and System Models The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast, swirling soup of trash, twice the size of Texas. Can we ever clean it up? That’s what 8 year old Ila wants to know. She lives in Hawaii and likes to pick up trash whenever she goes to the beach. She lives closer to the garbage patch than most of us. We talk to Jenni Brandon, a researcher who has been to the Gre