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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
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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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
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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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
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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Project: Visit The Exploratorium | Browse All
Date: June 10, 2008
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: mind, superstition, obstacle course
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Pi Day: 20th Anniversary of Pi Day at the Exploratorium (Webcast)
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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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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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