I Like Songs

Maybe it’s just because I am always singing them, but I feel like educational songs have been popping up all over the place lately.  Ryan J. can tell you every book of the bible, set to a delightful little tune (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. These are the books of the bible four.  Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges. [...]

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Be-Leaf It Or Not

After so much anticipation, the Dragonfly TV video has made finally it online. It’s pretty awesome. Check it out here.
Ryan’s Big Break
Paul D. makes a surprise appearance and watch til the end for a special finishing touch provided by yours truly.
Also you can say you knew me back before I was famous and all the [...]

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Hide and Seek

A couple of weeks ago we had a training where Amisha and I handed out a bunch of old clothes, paper, art materials, etc. and gave the Explainers the assignment of creating camouflage videos around the Exploratorium. And although we initially thought it would just be a super random and fun activity, there ended up [...]

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Darwin Days

Today I got to go to the Charles Darwin Bicentennial Colloquium and learned some really cool things about the father of evolution.

Karen, Charlie, and Suzanne spoke about some of the legacies of Darwin and his theories.
There have also been some interesting articles about the 200th anniversary of his birth bouncing around museum news listserves.
Darwinism Must [...]

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Pheromoaning

 

I don’t want to hear the words “human” and “pheromone” together again until at least 2050.  And if I die before 2050, as long as no one has made me admit that I have pheromones, I will die happy. 
Joking aside, I got into a slight disagreement this week with someone who shall remain anonymous to [...]

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SFMOMA: Art of Participation

(That’s odd – a number of my posts got deleted! Strange…good thing I saved this text, but a shame that Nina’s comment was lost…)
I had an interesting evening at the Art of Participation exhibition at the SFMOMA tonight. I can’t believe I waited until the very end of the show to see it. [...]

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Put Your Dang Hand on the Red Wall

No the red wall! Use your eyes!
Oops, sorry about that. As a recent convert to the religion of rock climbing, I’m amazed at how addictive the seemingly simple act of getting to the top of a wall studded with grips and cracks can be. I keep thinking of seeing how the muscles worked in the [...]

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Flavour Tripping

 
During meeting last Friday, Gabriel made us chew this herb that I cannot remember the name of. It binded to our sugar receptors and temporarily eliminated our abilities to taste sweetness. Consequently, when I ate a caramel corn-flavoured jelly bean, it tasted like I was chewing a chunk of [...]

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Brain Folds Five

Here’s an article that Charlie sent out a few days ago on museum news that relates to the Brain Dissection.
Scientific American Article – Exploring the Folds of the Brain
I like how this magazine gives the main points before hand which in case you don’t want to read the whole thing are…

Key Concepts

The cerebral cortex is [...]

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