Winter Reading

Anyone else both interested and confused when Paul D. says something like, “light is just electricity and magnetism leapfrogging over eachother in the vacuum of space”…
I decided to read up on some of the concepts and people who we’ve been talking about in trainings and I recommend you do the same if you are so inclined. This stuff [...]

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Robocop versus Terminator

There’s a giant robot in the back of the ExplOratorium. Sometimes I become very afraid that it will come alive and go on a desctructive rampage inside the museum. But then I remember that it can’t walk and I breathe a small sigh of relief. The robot is pretty cool looking and it supposedly has [...]

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Exhibit Mods (I didn’t know you could do that)

On Friday we shared some of the coolest ways we can combine exhibits with outside objects and other exhibits to make unique experiences. Everyday, we roam the museum, interacting with the visitors, so it’s only natural that we’ve picked up little tricks of the trade along the way. I love the idea of being able [...]

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Some Interesting Links

I loved this article about the ‘Year in Ideas 2007.’ Some of the things that people think up are definitely Exploratorium worthy.
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
After we had le blog du frog, it’s time for le blog du turtle (sorry I don’t know how to say ‘turtle’ in French, my lessons unexpectedly stopped). [...]

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Explainer Yelps

Dudes! We live in a freaking awesome city. I wanted to put up a thread on the blog so any of us can share the things that we love most about living in the Bay Area. Feel free to use the categories that I picked totally randomly or else make up some new ones. This [...]

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Drawing Board and the Coriolis Effect: A Refute

Experiment: Push the drawing board from the side so that it is moving in more or less a straight line, left to right from the perspective of where we normally stand as explainers (we’ll call this the y direction). Take the cap off and watch the pattern evolve.
Results: The line will gradually become an [...]

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Amazin’ Wind Tubes – Carny Style

Oh I carny by day…and I carny by night
Get my scratch and my oats and I be feelin quite alright

I travel with a roustabout, goes by the name of Peggy Sue
And my half sister Tallula, she knows just what to do
I can’t forget my dear ole Ma, who didn’t raise us dumb
And as for me, [...]

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