During the past week Ann and Sylvia organized a couple of our morning trainings around the theme of sexual harassment, which brought up some interesting responses from a few people, myself included, about harassment in general, and teasing in particular. Then, this weekend, I read an interesting article in Scientific American Mind about the purpose [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Purpose of Gossip
Posted in exploratorium on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Adult Curiosity
Posted in exploratorium on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking lately about what it means to grow up, because I feel like I have spent most of my life wishing that I was bigger and older, that I was more knowledgeable and mature, and now, as I see that transformation actually taking place, I turn around, look back, and am suddenly afraid [...]
Inspirational Quote
Posted in exploratorium on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As I was doing some research for my thesis this morning, I came across this quote by the late, great author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and felt like I had to share it with you all.
“…the two most potent spiritual forces
in contention today
have nothing to do with nations,
political parties,
or economic philosophies.
The opposing forces are these:
those who [...]
Shocking Roof Secrets Revealed
Posted in exploratorium on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, a few of us lucky souls, still ‘working’ at 4:00, got to hang out up on the roof of the Exploratorium to check out the fleet week Blue Angels show. It was a pretty scary climb up the ladder, but at least I knew that if I slipped, Marcus would break my fall [...]
More Smashing
Posted in exploratorium, links, off the floor, video on October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Since I was home sick from work last week, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching TV (aka The Discovery Channel). I got super excited every time they played this commercial for their new show, Time Warp, which reminds me of Smashbat. My favorite part is when the green balloon [...]
Boredom
Posted in exploratorium on October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So basically I consider it a fundamental responsibility in my job to inspire curiosity in those around me. On days when my mind has just discovered amazing new things about the world around me, and is reeling in expanses of new inspirational territory, this is easy. That’s not what I want to write about. What [...]
Smash Bat Fever
Posted in exploratorium on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up the newspaper this morning and turned to the magazine and saw this awesome picture of a cob of corn being pulverized. I thought to me self that that looks very similar to the smash bat gallery that Walter and Luigi created. Since they just got interviewed by MAKE TV, I guess this [...]
Sand Drawing Board
Posted in exploratorium on October 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here are some of the best pics from our trial run with the sand last Monday! Hopefully we can make some really cool patterns next week on the floor!
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