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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "White columns and dark silhouettes vie for attention at the Exploratorium’s Angel Caryatids exhibit. " ;
document.getElementById('credit').innerHTML = "Photo by Esther Kutnick " ;
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "Bubbles sandwiched between layers of glass create regular honeycomb patterns. ";
document.getElementById('credit').innerHTML = "Photo by Susan Schwartzenberg " ;
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "Salt sprinkled on a ball of ice etches intricate channels in the frozen sphere. ";
document.getElementById('credit').innerHTML = "Photo by Lily Rodriguez" ;
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "Spiky ice crystals seen through polarized light shine with rainbow colors at the Exploratorium exhibit Watch Water Freeze. ";
document.getElementById('credit').innerHTML = "Photo by Amy Snyder " ;
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "At Vibrating Pinscreen, by artist Ward Fleming, waves of colored light reflect from the tiny tops of more than 170,000 hanging pins. ";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "At Sun Painting, by artist Bob Miller, mirrors and prisms create an explosion of rainbow colors from beams of sunlight.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "Isaac Newton mentioned the peacock in his 1704 “Treatise on Optics”, having noticed that moving the bird´s tail feathers caused their colors to subtly shift. The colors are created by light reflecting from arrays of submicroscopic, pigment-filled rods. In the blue-green eye of this feather, more than 18,000 pigment rods are packed into just one-eighth of an inch.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "At the Exploratorium exhibit Icy Bodies, thin shavings of dry ice, warmed by the water they are floating in, emit cold jets of carbon dioxide gas. As the jets of gas shoot out, they spin the dry ice in a spiral pattern. As water vapor in the nearby air condenses into clouds, the pattern is revealed.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "The dahlia, which comes in many colors, was first cultivated by the Aztecs, who used them for everything from decoration to medication. In 1850, the first pompom dahlias, named for the red bobble on a French sailor's hat, were grown in Germany. In 1926, the dahlia was named the official flower of San Francisco because it had “the primitive strength of our pioneer ancestors, together with the gayety and color that no other city or flower can hope to equal.” A coffee substitute made from the dahlia tuber was introduced in the 1980s by William A. Mitchell, who also developed Cool Whip and Pop Rocks.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "The waxy tree frog, sometimes called the monkey frog for its long legs, is native to central South America. It's a popular aquarium inhabitant, which measures about 8 cms (3 inches) in length, feeds upon insects, and lives for about eight years. In the wild, female waxys lay their eggs in a coarse nest of tree leaves overhanging water. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles drop into the water to dwell until they are frogs.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "This elegant landscape reflects the diversity of its occupants. A self-contained system invented by Sergei Winogradsky (1856-1953), this panel is filled with pond mud and organic ingredients that were allowed to grow under a heat source. The result is a colorful mass of living bacteria. Make your own bacterial garden.";
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document.getElementById('blurb').innerHTML = "Elodea is a common freshwater pond plant found throughout North America. A micrograph at 400X reveals cell walls and many small green chloroplasts (the organelles that capture light energy). It is also possible to see nuclei and other organelles like vacuoles in some of the cells. To learn more and set the chloroplasts in motion go to www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/";
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