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These selections of programs are recommended for visitors to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California.

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Outdoor Exploratorium:  Outdoor Exhibits (Clip)
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View a selection of video clips from three exhibits that are part of the new Outdoor Exploratorium collection at Fort Mason.

Project: Outdoor Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: January 13, 2009
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: outdoor, exhibits, fort mason, wind, waves, oscillations

Links: Outdoor Exploratorium Press Kit

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International Rubik's Cube Competition:  International Rubik's Cube Competition 2009 (Clip)
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00:01:47
Watch a few highlights from last year's Rubik's Cube Competition, and get ready to join us here at The Exploratorium on January 18, 2009, from 10am-4:30pm!

Project: International Rubik's Cube Competition | Browse All

Date: December 30, 2008
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
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Keywords: international rubik's cube competition


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California State Yo-Yo Championships:  2008 California State Yo-Yo Championship Event Preview (Clip)
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00:00:51
All wound up with nothing to do? Swing by the Exploratorium on September 6th, beginning at 10am, for the 2008 California State Yo-Yo Championships. Meet National and World Yo-Yo Champions, watch daredevil tricks, and learn basic techniques from yo-yo masters. This event is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium. Registration is open to the public and begins at 10am. Winners will qualify for next year's regional tournament. For more information, go to www.calstateyoyo.com.

Project: California State Yo-Yo Championships at the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: August 17, 2008
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: yo-yo, championships, 2008, tricks, techniques, cal state yo-yo, tournament


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Visit The Exploratorium:  Radio PSA: Tempt Fate at the Superstition Obstacle Course (Clip)
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Pi Day:  20th Anniversary of Pi Day at the Exploratorium (Webcast)
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01:53:32
The Exploratorium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Pi Day with a pie-throwing contest, Pi Day exhibits in Second Life, and more activities honoring everyone's favorite mathematical constant.

Project: Pi Day | Browse All

Date: March 13, 2008
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): General Science, History

Keywords: pi day, geometry, history, math, chain reaction


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Mind:  Mind: A Major Exhibit Collection with 40 New Exhibits (Clip)
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Preview the Exploratorium's Mind exhibit, an exhibit collection four years in the making.

In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot collection. Discover insights into how you make decisions, the kinds of things you do (or don’t) pay attention to, and the changing landscapes and intriguing effects of your own emotions. Mind is made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation.

Project: Mind | Browse All

Date: March 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: mind, thought, feeling, emotion, interactive, exhibit, decision-making

Links: Mind Press Kit

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Pi Day:  Celebrating the Anniversary of Pi Day at the Exploratorium (Clip)
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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 - and of course on Second Life - people are celebrating Pi. In 2008, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pi Day, an international holiday born at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.

Project: Pi Day | Browse All

Date: February 20, 2008
Format: Event
Category: History of Science
Subject(s):

Keywords: pi day

Links: Press Release: 20th Anniversary of PI Day March 14, 2008

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Exhibit Services:  Aeolian Landscape (Clip)
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Aeolian Landscape is an exhibit in which a miniature wind-swept desert landscape is recreated by an electric fan and finely ground sand that mimics the process of wind picking up and depositing small particles. Visitors can change the direction of the fan, influencing the shape of the dunes.

Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: art, aeolian, exhibit, ned kahn, wind, sand, dune, simulation


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Exhibit Services:  Balancing Ball (Clip)
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00:00:15
At the Balancing Ball exhibit, a plastic beach ball floats mysteriously several feet above a large plastic cone. Upon closer inspection, the ball is found to be floating on a stream of air blowing out of the cone; visitors interact with the ball, changing its position in relation to the air flow.

Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: ball, air, airflow, float, stream, exhibit


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Exhibit Services:  Chaotic Pendulum (Clip)
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00:00:15
The Chaotic Pendulum exhibit contains a deceptively simple set of pendulums in a steel and Plexiglas case. The visitor twists a protruding knob, expecting the resulting motion to be fairly predictable. But the device's motion is chaotic, extremely complicated and long-lived.

Project: Exploratorium Exhibit Services | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: pendulum, chaos, motion


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