Bill Nye, Science Guy
Bill Nye is the enthusiastic, bow-tied scientist on the Public Broadcasting System. At this site you will find information about Bill Nye, a question of the week, and memos from Bill in the U-Nye-Verse section. When this site was cataloged this memo contained an in-depth explanation of the reason for leaps years, which also included information about the Gregorian calender, marking time by shadows, and equinoxes. The Home Demos include a large collection of science experiments that can be conducted at home as well as in the classroom.Planetary, physical, and life science experiments include: erosion, ice, what makes things float, eggs, nerves, sense of touch, sense of taste, barometric pressure, friction, ocean currents, chemical reaction, blood circulation, inertia, chemical erosion, atoms and molecules, muscles, human heart, physics, symmetry, temperature, tornadoes, and more.
