Science Super Saturday @ U of M Flint May 1st 2015

Been busy working in my home lab getting new idea's ready for the Science Super Saturday Event May 1st at U of M Flint.  I'm very excited to be invited to their event, I hear they are even bringing in an Astronaut this year as a featured speaker, besides Doctorslime.  I hope to have some pictures to share here after the event and I will let you know what great idea's I was able to take away from the event.

DoctorSlime 4-15-15

STEM Festival Dates announced at Delta College

STEM Festival Dates announced (Schools Sept. 25th, Public Sept 26th Saturday)

April 14, 2015 doctorslimescience Uncategorized

Dow Great Lakes Bay Regional STEM Festival event held during the past two falls has become a high demand event and we’ve been asked to do it AGAIN this fall!  Dow Chemical will again be our naming sponsor.  The planning is still in the preliminary stages, but save the dates for Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26.  We hosted the event that weekend last year and the weather was perfect for it!  Friday will be closed to the public as area middle schools will register groups to attend.  Saturday will be free and open to the public of all ages.

DoctorSlime Presented @ Great Lakes Bay Region Stem Event Oct, 5th 2014

Delta College is Doing Stem Outreach!

Did you make it to our last Event?

For more information contact stem explorer@delta.edu to keep up to date on our STEM EVENTS and plans.

New Year New Shows

Well with the start of 2012 I rolled out a few new show idea's and am working on a few more.

Completed a series of shows in Jan, Feb, and March. With my last show for a cub scout Blue & Gold Banquet in Hemlock Michigan.

Life has been interesting, Took a tumble on the Last patch of ice in Bay county a couple of weeks ago and only now am I beginning to feel like my old self again, Thank God Nothing was broken, just my pride was bruised a little. I got my first pair of glasses ever in my life this week and my I didn't notice what I was missing. Seems DoctorSlime is near sighted, and all those little details in the distance were getting past me, so If I didn't wave when you thought you had my attention, sorry I might not have noticed you. Spring Break at Delta College is over and I'm back hard at work at my Day Job as Laboratory Chemist, making sure all the Chemistry Classes at Delta College run smoothly.

In my personal life, things are just fine. I've been helping out with a family who had their house foreclosed on, and the organization I'm working with is buying back their home from HUD. Ernest Estates LLC, is working to put the family back in their home, in an affordable fashion.
Right now I'm looking for a plumber and a roofer to help us get them back in with an affordable home, so if you know of a reasonable Plumber or roofer who can help me out give me a Jingle.
989-280-6306 ask for Mike.

Know of anyone who wants to buy an affordable home, in a good location, with access to St.Charles or Swan Valley Schools for their children contact me. A house has come on the market that's a great deal. I have it posted on craigslist. its Near the corner of Swan Creek road and Graham road about 5 minutes from Saginaw.

http://saginaw.craigslist.org/reo/2881791928.html

Community Science @ Mackinaw High School Summer Program

Kids ask the Best questions. On my vacation day, off from Delta College I took The Dr.Slime Science program to Mackinaw High School for the Last Days of the Jumping Jitter Bugs Summer Program.

We had a great time Doing Science! I Always love the questions and perspectives of the Students because they see things from a fresh and different angle. I've filed away several of the idea's to see if I can use them to develop new Experiments for the Kids based on the questions they've given me.

Showtime Wed. 11am -12:30 pm

Grade Level 1st - 6th

Keep Science alive and in your thoughts Everyday

Dr.Slime

Delta College & Doctorslime Gear-up For Science Summer Camp

July 25-28 @ Delta College
DoctorSlime Teams up to run the Science Summer Camp Session,
Connections in Biology & Chemistry.

The Class is nearly full with area students who will be hiking and running actual hands-on activities studying the Biology, Chemistry and Ecosystem that makes up the Delta College environment.

This 3 day intensive course is designed to help students think critically and on their Feet about real-life, real-world science, across all disciplinary bounds, giving them the tools to think beyond one-topic taught exclusively, and look for the hidden connections take bring all elements into play in real-life situations.

Bay City Handy Middle School Science Fair

Sunday May 1st 12- 3 pm

Bay City Middle School

DoctorSlime will be giving a show

Busy, busy, busy Need a clone...

This has been a wonderful start to 2011, So far I've had 3 shows in quick succession.

Zaul Library had me come by for their Science Fair kick off program on 1/22/11.

Next

Midland was honored as one of the 100 Best Cities for kids, and I presented at the Midland Mall on 1/29/11.

Finally

I was booked at the awesome Temple Theater, I remember my first visit when I was a child sitting in those huge seats staring up at the Ornate ceiling waiting for GM to bring in Santa Claus, for the children of GM workers. The organ came up out of the pit playing Christmas songs, and I was hooked on stage work for life. When I got the offer to appear there I was excited, fearful, and intimidated. Moving from the seats to the stage in a venue that looks as new and fresh as it did back in the early 60's to me.

Well 1,200 cheering fans later it was a hit, and now I'm working on bigger and better demo's that will reach out towards the audience, I was thinking of maybe doing a Science Implosion, the opposite of an explosion. Like I did for the people of the Discovery Channel on the Show Time Warp Season 2 episode 213.

That would be impressive..I should dig out a photo or two, if you have any photos of Doctorslime please send them along!

Hmmm lots to do today, even more to think about and plan.

Dr.Slime

Magic Bean Saginaw 10/16/10

Dr.Slime was at the Magic Bean 10/16/10.

Science and fun was had by all. Dr.Slime got to meet a whole bunch of kids interested in science, and he discovered the Greatest little Coffee shop this side of Seattle, Wa.

Check out the postings on facebook for more information.

Dr.Slime

Christa Mcauliffe Middle School Science Show

Look for Doctorslime in Bay City Friday
May 7th 2010 Science Show

He'll Be doing a show at Christa Mcauliffe Middle School.

WE'll Post pictures here if we get a chance to snap a few of the great
kids from Bay City.

Dr.Slime

School Shows in the Schedule for Dr.Slime

Dr.Slime has the following shows in the pipe line.

Hemlock Cubscouts Sunday Feb 21St. @ St. Peters Lutheran Church.
Wow was there a big turn out for the Hemlock Cubscouts
,Blue and Gold Event. They have a thriving Cub Pack in Hemlock.

March 26th, 2010.
400 kids, the Schall school Kids in Caro are always a pleasure to visit,very respectfully, and they ask the most insightful questions.

Late April (planned Date)
Reese Middle School in Reese in Late April.
This show is planned more information as it becomes available.

Flat Stanley Visit's Doctorslime

Flat Stanley Visits DoctorSlime!

You may ask yourself, who or what is Flat Stanley, well if you have a small child living in your home ask them. Most Young children know and love Flat Stanely, he has his own books, and animated TV show I'm told. Simply put Flat Stanely is a 2 dimensional character, who visits far away and interesting places. Recently Flat Stanley Came to visit with Dr.Slime.

Why? I don't really know you'd have to ask the Creator of this particular version of Flat Stanely. In Early October a non-descript plain manila envelope arrived at DoctorSlime's Headquarters. That's Delta College located at 1961 Delta Rd. University Center Michigan 48710. Delta College is a Community College with over 10,000 students from Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland. I like to think of Delta College as the best place ever located in the middle of a Corn Field. Thats how Delta Began, but that is another story. Back to Flat Stanley... I opened the Letter and out pops this Cute little Guy, with a red Shirt, orange tie, red hair, and brown pants. Inside with Stanley is a letter.

Dear Michael ( that's doctorslimes real name)

Our First and second grade class recently read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.
(see he does have his own book, told you!) In the story, the main character, Flat Stanley, was Flattered by a falling Bulletin board ( oh Dear!). Although he wasn't hurt, he became flattened. When he wanted to go to California to visit some friends his family folded him up, put him in an envelope and mailed him to California. (Man I wish I could do that, Palm springs sounds nice!) What a way to travel.

To help our class learn about our world in a new way, I'm Mailing Flat Stanley to you. I hope you will be a gracious host and show Flat Stanley around your town or city during his time with you. Please write about the places Flat Stanley visited and things you did together. Send the letter, with Flat Stanley Back with any pictures post cards, etc you may have collected back to my class in a few weeks. My Class, teacher and I can't wait to hear about Flat Stanley's "adventures" with you!

Thank you for helping me with this Project. I wish I could fold myself up and visit you too!

Love,

Dylan Hardrman Laurel Elementary School
116 Laurel School rd.
Vanceburg, Ky. 41179-6186

Well with such a nice letter from Dylan, and Flat Stanley staring at me what was I to do?



So, I took Flat Stanley with me where ever I went! He got a tour of the Delta College Chemistry Department. http://www3.delta.edu/slime/tour.html This is the place where Flat Stanley Arrived and where I work. Its a very nice place the pictures in the tour show the building just as it was being completed. As I was moving in...Flat Stanley since he was to work with me in the chemistry Dept. He had to have special safety equipment added. So I made a pair or rubber gloves, for him which he keeps tucked in his belt when he's not using them, a pair of safety goggles to keep his eyes safe when we work together with chemicals, and a graduated cylinder which he uses to measure out chemicals for me. He's really good at measuring out tiny amounts like less than 5 ml to 50 uL, those small sizes are hard for me. SO.. for the first couple of weeks I taught him all about chemistry, because that's what I do at Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University. At Delta College I'm the Laboratory Manager and we mixed up chemicals to get ready for all the student Lab's at Delta. At Saginaw Valley State Unviversity, where I teach night school to college students Flat Stanley sat in on my class and learned Chemistry 101.

Whenever I went somewhere Flat Stanley Came with me, he got to meet some very weird and interesting people.

Included in this blog is just a few of the pictures and sights Stanley saw, for more please visit Flat Stanley's Photo album.
It is located on the World Wide Web at.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62292905@N00/
or log into flickr.com and search for doctorslime.

You might have to sign in to see all of the pictures of Flat Stanley at the Children's Zoo (Saginaw), Planetarium (Bay City), or Delta College (University Center, Mi.)

Well we have work to do, Flat Stanley and I
We will post more later!

DoctorSlime Flat Stanley & Michael Garlick

At the Bottom of this page is a Slide show, showing just a few places Flat Stanley and I traveled too. Scroll Down to see the Show.

Cave of the Crystal Giants Awesome

http://tiny.cc/z5clb Cave of the Crystal Giants.

You have to check this out this is the most awesome example of exotic natural Crystal
growth anywhere on the planet, its still unspoiled. You must go to the link and check it out words do not express its quantum awesome-ness.

Transparent aluminum Yes its real!

Transparent aluminum named new state of matter.

We all remember the scene from Star Trek IV in which Scotty, despite his unfamiliarity with the Apple Macintosh mouse, hammered out the molecular structure of transparent aluminum. The real material is a little more exotic, requiring a high-power laser pulse to knock out a core electron with disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. Transparent only to UV light for just 40 femtoseconds, this aluminum is nonetheless unlike anything scientists have ever created.

Detailed from july 29th 2009 issue R&D Magazine.

http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000101&ISSUE=0907&RELTYPE=MS&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=PA&CommonCount=0

or go tiny

http://tinyurl.com/m76km8

Air Date for DoctorSlime on Time Warp Episode 211 7/08/09?? Maybe?? Wed @ 8 pm

We have an AIR DATE! Maybe?
DoctorSlime Will appear on Time Warp the Discovery Channel Show July 8th that's Wednesday at 8 pm ; DoctorSLime Michael Garlick will be doing a guest host bit on the Discovery Channel Show TimeWarp with Jeff Lieberman and Zoz Brooks featuring the Science
of implosions. They Will Start with the simple pop can crush, move up to a 55 gallon Drum Can Crush, and then hit a 4700 Gallon Stainless Steel Dairy Tank with all the pressure the Air can spare 1,000,000 Lbs acting on the sides! Tune in and don't miss this Great Real Science Event!.

Why Maybe? They changed the date once, and the website doesn't support what I was told, so maybe it was changed again!! ARRRGGGHHH.

DoctorSlime


Timewarp Most Recent Clips click here

DoctorSlime Does Time Warp!!! Discovery Channel

Mike Garlick aka Dr. Slime Guest Appearance

(byline: David Baker)

Make Garlick a local science educator and familiar face at the annual Sci-fest Presentations was asked in early May to be a guest host on Time Warp a program on the Discovery Channel. He flew to Boston and within two hours he was filming the show on how a container can be crushed by the force of air on a vacuum. Time Warp features MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman along with Zoz Brooks of MIT, who use new high speed photographic technologies to bring truly never before seen wonders into a form that you can view.

Initially Mike ran through the standard collapsing of a soda can experiment, which you can do at home. This is achieved when the pressure outside is greater than the pressure inside, and the pressure difference is greater than the can is able to withstand.

The next demonstration was to crush a 55 gallon drum which raised the danger level to moderate. For this a steam-flo generator was used to charge the barrel with steam. The pressure in the barrel started to fall toward zero, and the barrel imploded. The air pressure crushed that barrel so fast, that under the high speed Camera’s 5-20K frames per second, the barrel disappears as Super chilled water, was poured slowly on to the barrel and WHAM!!!

The ultimate experiment involved the implosion of a 4700 gallon stainless steel dairy tank. The tank was charged with 230o steam, and then the inflow was cut off to allow the pressure to drop to near atmospheric, and then the second valve was closed. The tank was then cooled using a Boston Fire Department Blitz Gun, using a chilled fire hose packed in ice, dry ice and salt. The tank groaned and then folded up.

The show is on Wednesday nights on the Discovery Channel at 8 pm. The collapsing containers show featuring Mike Garlick is expected to air sometime in the next four to six weeks.