Science Shack

	Science Shack {{Use dmy dates, date=October 2022 ''Science Shack'' was a BBC television series screened in 2001 and 2002. It was presented by Adam Hart-Davis and produced by Leeds UK-based Screenhouse Productions. The series set out to answer science questions by performing experiments. In the first series, topics included: 'Can you walk on the ceiling?' for which the team held an inverted walking competition, with Australians taking part; 'What will we do when the oil runs out?' with the shack in Cornwall and powered by alternative energy sources; and 'Why did the millennium bridge wobble?', in which the team built a working model of the footbridge near the Tate Modern. The second series included a greater role for Hart-Davis's backup team of Marty Jopson, Jem Stansfield, Sim Oakley, Janet Sumner and Alom Shaha. Challenges this time included: * Tall Buildings – in which the team try to make the world's biggest paper tower, complete with a lift, in the Millennium Dome * Can I walk on water? � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adam Hart-Davis Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster. He presented the BBC television series '' Local Heroes'' and '' What the Romans Did for Us'', the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Ancients. He was also a co-presenter of '' Tomorrow's World'', and presented '' Science Shack''. Hart-Davis was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2007. Personal life Hart-Davis was born and brought up in Henley-on-Thames, the youngest child of the publisher Sir Rupert Hart-Davis (1907–1999) and his second wife, Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner. He was educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School, near Pangbourne, and then at Eton College, before studying chemistry at Merton College, Oxford. He then took a PhD degree in organometallic chemistry at the University of York and spent three years as a post-doctoral scholar at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jem Stansfield Jeremy Stansfield (born 1970) is a British engineer and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC One science show '' Bang Goes the Theory''. Career Stansfield has a degree in aeronautics from Bristol University and, before his television career, worked in a Czech school, as a shepherd in the Australian outback, and briefly in stand-up comedy. Stansfield was an on-screen ballistics expert for the television show Scrapheap Challenge and went on to become a permanent part of the engineering team for subsequent series. Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a ''New Scientist'' prize). In 2010, Stansfield used vacuum cleaners to create " Spider-Man style" climbing gloves, climbing 30 feet up a brick wall. He also drove a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 210 miles from London to Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alom Shaha Alom Shaha (born 1973) is a British-Bangladeshi science teacher, writer, and filmmaker. His books include ''The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God'', ''Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: adventures in science round the kitchen table'', and ''Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines: adventures in making round the kitchen table''. He has also written for '' The Guardian'', The Big Issue, '' BBC Science Focus'', '' New Humanist'' and '' New Scientist'' and spoken at events such as the Richmond Literature Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival. Education and early life Shaha was born in Bangladesh and grew up in a Muslim family in the Elephant and Castle area of London where he developed an interest in atheism. He was educated at University College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, followed by Imperial College London ( Master of Science degree in science communication), Goldsmiths, University of London ( Master of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Millennium Dome The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East (London sub region), South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. As of 2022, it is the List of largest buildings#Largest usable volume, ninth largest building in the world by usable volume. The exhibition was open to the public from 1 January to 31 December 2000. The project and exhibition were highly political and attracted barely half of the 12 million customers its sponsors forecasted, and so were deemed a failure by the press. All the original exhibition elements were sold or dismantled. In a 2005 report, the cost of the Dome and surrounding land (which increased to 170 acres from the initial offering of the 48 acres enclosed by the Dome) and managing the Dome until the deal was closed was £28.7 million. The value of the 48 acres occupied by the Dome was estimated at £48 million, which could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flatpack Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture (KD), flat pack furniture, or kit furniture, is a form of furniture that requires customer assembly. The separate components are packed for sale in cartons which also contain assembly instructions and sometimes hardware. The furniture is generally simple to assemble with basic tools such as screwdrivers, which are also sometimes included. Ready-to-assemble furniture is popular with consumers who wish to save money by assembling the product themselves. Producers and merchants benefit from selling ready-to-assemble furniture because furniture is bulky once assembled, and thus more expensive to store and to deliver. Since the assembly work is done by the consumer instead of by the manufacturer, its price can be lower. A furniture assembly service industry has developed, making it easy for consumers to employ someone knowledgeable to assemble their furniture for them. Produced mainly from chipboard or medium de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Time Lapse Photography Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus ''lapsing''. For example, an image of a scene may be captured at 1 frame per second but then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent ''30 times'' speed increase. Similarly, film can also be played at a much lower rate than at which it was captured, which slows down an otherwise fast action, as in slow motion or high-speed photography. Processes that would normally appear subtle and slow to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars in the sky or the growth of a plant, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of ''undercranking''. Stop motion animation is a comparable technique; a subject that does not actually move, such as a puppet, can repeatedly be mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]