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 | Iron Science Teacher Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live audience at the Exploratorium for the revered title, "Iron Science Teacher." Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Cow's Eye Dissection At the Exploratorium, we dissect cows’ eyes everyday to show visitors how an eye works. Now, the virtual visitor can have the experience too! Visit the Cow's Eye Dissection website for more information and materials. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Accidental Scientist: Science of Gardening Like all great endeavors, gardening is both a science and an art. See how the plants we tend feed our bodies, our minds, and our senses. Join us for another of our 'Accidental Scientist' projects as we explore the science of gardening. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Mind The Science, Art, and Experience of our inner Lives MIND at the Exploratorium The Exploratorium's new MIND exhibit collection showcases over 40 new exhibits about thinking and feeling joining the museum's permanent collection, plus programs, temporary exhibitions, and special events. Working with expert advisors, the MIND team spent over four years researching the cognitive sciences to create provocative and compelling experiences that will illuminate the way your mind works. Visit the museum to experience MIND yourself! Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Teacher Institute Teaching Tips Teacher Institute Teaching Tips is a bite-sized podcast series of almost 70 episodes for science teachers, by science teachers. In each five-minute episode, we give you pedagogy tips, science history, hands-on activities, or other ideas for your science classroom. Browse all programs for this project | Subscribe Visit this website. | |
 | Dr. Frank Oppenheimer This Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who devoted his efforts to it—and was its director—until his death in 1985. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Evidence: Extremophiles in Kamchatka Looking for life in the hot springs of the Russian far east. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Pi Day 3/14 at 1:59 pm It's also Einstein's Birthday From San Francisco to New York, in museums, universities, classrooms and in the privacy of one’s own home - people are celebrating Pi Day, an international holiday born at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Outdoor Exploratorium In the spring of 2009, a new Exploratorium exhibit collection opens to the public -- but not at the museum's Palace of Fine Arts home. Instead, these exhibits will be installed at Fort Mason, a diverse landscape of historic piers, wooded hillsides, green meadows, and rocky shorelines just east of San Francisco's Crissy Field and Marina Green. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Reflections What’s new this summer? You—at the Exploratorium. Reflections, a freshly curated collection of classic and re-imagined exhibits, art installations, and public programs, lets you look at your own image as you’ve never seen it before. Meet yourself at a giant mirror, watch as a video snow-stream creates your image, and witness your visage as it is multiplied into hundreds of kaleidoscopic views. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Speaking of Music Rewind In celebration of the Exploratorium's 40th Anniversary, we've been combing through our archives and revisiting our rich history. One gem we discovered is the highly regarded Speaking of Music series, which was co-presented by the Exploratorium, Charles Amirkhanian and KPFA radio, and produced by Mr. Amirkhanian from 1983 to 1992. In the series, conversations between Mr. Amirkhanian and prominent musicians and composers took place before a live audience. We are releasing these archived files as a podcast series called "Speaking of Music Rewind." We'll publish one episode a month for the entire 40th anniversary year, concluding in November 2010. For more information about Charles Amirkhanian, please visit the Other Minds website. Browse all programs for this project | Subscribe Visit this website. | |
 | Voyages of Discovery: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer The Okeanos Explorer is the newest vessel in NOAA's fleet and the first to be dedicated solely to exploration and discovery missions. It's equipped with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), sophisticated multibeam sonar technology for mapping the sea floor as deep as 6000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet), and 24-hour satellite telecommunications equipment to beam images in real time from the ship and ROV to destinations on shore. The Okeanos Explorer will map and explore the world's ocean depths, primed for making new discoveries with every mission it undertakes. The ship's first voyage will be to the waters off Indonesia in a joint mission with Indonesian scientists to investigate the deep reefs and active fault zones of one of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Venture into the vast and largely unknown ocean and follow along with the Okeanos Explorer scientists and crew on their discovery voyages. Browse all programs for this project | Subscribe Visit this website. | |
 | Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation The Exploratorium launches a new website in April, 2010 to explore the topic of Polynesian Navigation. Videos, maps, articles, photographs and audio stories populate the website, and it is designed to give visitors an inside look at the amazing world of Polynesian Navigation. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Geometry Playground What if geometry meant climbing inside giant 3D shapes, or watching yourself in a big curved mirror as you try to play hopscotch? The Geometry Playground exhibition will change the way you think about geometry, letting you use your hands, brain, and body to play with physical demonstrations of this often "textbook subject". You'll discover the beauty of geometry and see how it plays a role in countless actions you do every day. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? What makes us human? What happened to the Neanderthals? Why can only humans speak? Interviews and interactives explore how we know what we know about human origins. This project was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation, with the additional generosity of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Jim Clark Endowment for Internet Education, and the McBean Family Foundation. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Driven: True Stories of Inspiration How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively, and the human stories behind creative accomplishments. A new audio slideshow will be released every two weeks from mid-July through mid-November. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists What's it like to be a research scientist working in the Arctic and Antarctica? For the International Polar Year, we gave polar scientists cameras and blogs and asked them to document their field work in real time. Webcasts, produced at the poles, are an ongoing part of the project. Browse all programs for this project | Subscribe Visit this website. | |
 | Total Solar Eclipse Since 1998, the Exploratorium has brought live coverage of total eclipses of the sun to audiences world wide. Watch exciting moments of this unique phenomena along with scientific commentary in stories from the path of totality. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Microscope Imaging Station The Microscope Imaging Station exhibit at the Exploratorium produces high-resolution images and movies using research-grade microscopes. The companion website features stories, image and video galleries, and classroom activities. This work was made possible in part by a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | AfterSchool Activities Watch how-to videos for fun after school or at-home activities from the Digital Library. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | After Dark A cutting-edge evening series for adults. The first Thursday of every month. 6:00-10:00 p.m. Experience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events. Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic—from music to sex to electricity-but all include a cash bar and film screenings, plus an opportunity to play with our hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Join us and mingle with inventive scientists, artists, musicians, programmers, and designers. Enjoy live performances, provocative films, interesting music, cutting-edge technology, unexpected extravaganzas, and more, depending on each evening's lineup. Leave the kids at home and meet friends or take a date. Where else can you find an intellectually stimulating playground for adults-with free parking? This event is included in the price of museum admission. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Journey to Mars The Mars Phoenix Lander is scheduled to land May 25, 2008. The Exploratorium will present two Webcasts on this latest mission to Mars. Browse all programs for this project Visit this website. | |
 | Exploratorium Audio Salon The Exploratorium is not only an interactive science and art museum, it's a hub where leading thinkers and makers converge and share ideas. Visiting scientists, artists, educators, and visionaries all pass through our doors. The Exploratorium Audio Salon Podcast captures some of the exciting conversations so you can hear them, too. Browse all programs for this project | Subscribe Visit this website. | |
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