Posted in exploratorium on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two amazing scientific advances to report on today. As we all discussed in the Explainer lounge today, the newspaper had an article about possible scientific plans to clone a woolly mammoth.
Regenterating a Mammoth for 10 Million – NY Times
Wooly Mammoth Task Complete – AP
I’m super psyched about this idea. Imagine driving across Kansas and seeing [...]
Posted in exploratorium on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today while procrastinating on working on some writing, I found an article about magic and neuroscience that speaks to the reasons that we have the demonstration on the floor. I know that we always feel like we have to justify having magic in a science museum, but this article offers even more evidence in favor [...]
Posted in exploratorium on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Saturday, we offered our second family investigation workshop for members. Using what we’ve learned from the Institute for Inquiry, we investigated garden snails. These little critters turn out to be wonderful to watch–they don’t run away (at least not very fast), they have a non-squishy part to hold onto, they don’t bite, they [...]
Posted in exploratorium on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thought you all might appreaciate seeing what kind of place the lunch cloffice is to work in. A couple weeks the Bio folks scurried around the museum collecting samples of bacteria from various locations. They put the 20 samples in petri dishes and waited for the good stuff to grow. Here is the picture of [...]
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Posted in exploratorium on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who didn’t make it out to Phantasmagorium-atorium at the Exploratorium on Friday night, you missed a hell of a party. There was a hilarious puppet show, a chance to lay down in a coffin, a purveyor of decaying animals, and a sugar skull making workshop. One of my favorite parts of [...]
Posted in exploratorium, on the floor, tagged Danfoss Universe, Experimentarium, exploratorium on November 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So as I mentioned during meeting, last week I had a really enjoyable interaction with a friendly group of Danish people at Philosophy Demo. After we had decided whether or not time was real, when an activity becomes a bad habit, and where our minds go after we die, we still had plenty of time [...]
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