Time

Benham's Disk

The colors you see here are all in your head.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Bird in a Cage

Stare at a bird’s eye for 30 seconds, then look into the empty cage. You’ll see a ghostly bird—of a very different color—inside the cage

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Cheshire Cat

Make your partner's face disappear, leaving only a smile.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

A decaying carcass makes a perfect meal for an assortment of scavengers, including the dermestid beetles you can see in this exhibit. As they feast on these carcasses, the dermestid beetles and their larvae get their energy and nutrients from the dried flesh, skin, and other tissues.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

Live Chicken Embryos

It takes just 21 days for an egg to go from just laid to newly hatched chick, and a lot goes on in just the first week. Look closely and you’ll find blood vessels, a backbone, wing buds, eyes, a brain, and—throbbing prominently by day 5 or so—a beating heart.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

Look Inside a Developing Fish

Here you can see inside living zebrafish embryos in various stages of development, see their blood circulate, and compare your own pulse to theirs.

Where: Gallery 4: Living Systems

Lumen-Illusion

Flashing lights create the illusion of motion.

Where: Crossroads: Getting Started

Machine with Concrete

A motor is connected to a block of concrete via a simple system of gears. The final gear will make one revolution into the concrete once every 13.7 billion years, yet the machine whirs uninterrupted.

Where: Crossroads: Getting Started

Recollections

This work addresses the poetics of motion, time and color. Participants are able to explore animated effects such as how sequences of images create movement. By displaying sequences simultaneously, movement forms are created. The history of the movement is expressed through multiple rainbow-colored images that evoke memories of legendary photographer Harold Edgerton's work.

Where: Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon