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Science, technology, art, and fashion converge at a runway fashion show at the Exploratorium on Friday, April 25, 2008, 7-11pm. The 2nd Skin Clothesline Exhibit debuts that evening; the event also features two artists at work on their creations. If you miss the opening, artists' works will to be highlighted around the museum for five months,from April 26-September 7, 2008.
Project: Second Skin | Browse All
Date: March 31, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art Invisibility, teleportation, mind reading—the stuff of science fiction, right? Yet much of today’s technology was once considered impossible. Given enough time, couldn’t incredible ideas like these also become commonplace? In this unique presentation, author and physicist Dr. Michio Kaku brings to life the science behind parallel universes and other fantastic phenomena. He’ll discuss the role of nanotechnology in learning to simulate invisibility, explain why NASA envisions sending “nanoships” to the stars, and reveal how nanoscience may provide an escape from the death of the universe itself.
Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All
Date: March 29, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Physics 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 Join Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an authority on positive psychology and flow, for a lecture on creativity. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi reviews the common traits of creative people and describe the environments that foster innovation.
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: March 12, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology 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 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
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