D(NA)-Day

April 25th was National DNA Day: created in order to commemorate the completion of the human genome project, it served as an excuse for the explainers to express their unabated love for DNA and everything sciency and geeky. Dawn had been so excited about it that she vowed off caffeine for the week preceding the [...]

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Hallelujah! I Believe! Hallelujah!

Don’t Worry.
My concussion didn’t actually result in a grand religious conversion. But I was reading an article in the newspaper this morning and thought I’d put a link in the blog (Thank Goodness, the jumbled letters in my damaged brain unscrambled at about 6:00am on Sunday, just in time to get my weekly news fix). [...]

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Blogging about Blogging

I just wanted to share the really neat conversation that a few of us got to have with some women who were starting a science learning center in Montana. They visited the exploratorium to share ideas about teaching, outreach, and team-building. They were especially interested in our foray into the blogosphere, as they were thinking [...]

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Scrubbing water clean

Once a year, the field trip explainers get to go on a field trip! When the Exploratorium hosts its yearly Awards dinners, there are two days in which field trips are canceled. Therefore, we can afford to cover the museum with only half the floor staff. One half of us goes field tripping on [...]

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Prom in Paris

I went in today, thinking I’d have a chill evening as a Receptionist- I even brought the magazine from Japan that I’d been saving – but was asked to be an Explainer instead, due to lack of staff.
 Never fear, the Explainers are here: May and Akiko! 
 So May and I spent the evening frolicking shamelessly among the promsters. 
 We danced.  We danced some more.  We posed a [...]

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Save the chickens!

Four-day old embryo, hosted on flickr
Someone commented on the photo above that I took, and in looking through her photostream, I saw a similar photo that she he took, with the following description:
i found this at the exploratorium in san francisco. at first i found this a little interesting. . . quickly after i realized [...]

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Everything in the Universe

I’m geared up for the third installment of Paul D’s everything in the universe training.
I remembered this Monty Python song and video and thought it was pretty entertaining…
Galaxy Song

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Running Diary of Event Reception

Preface – This is a story about what happens when an explainer takes off the orange vest an enters into the exciting world of event reception. Behind the front desk I will have plenty of time for self-reflection, incoherent muttering, and possibly the chance to give someone directions to the best place to take pictures [...]

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Ryan inspired me with that fantastic article,  so here’s an article that Sam and I were talking about a week and a half ago – he recently visited this aquarium (he’s from GA) and said that it truly was amazing.  But this makes me wonder about where to draw the line – of course we want [...]

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On the way to work…

I feel like I often read articles online or in the paper and then try to tell people about them, which is ultimately disappointing because I’ve made a lame summary or forgot the main point or some other stupid reason. So I want to start posting some links to cool articles that I’ve encountered.
This [...]

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