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Pouring concrete is an ongoing feature of construction at the Piers. This footage, captured in July 2011, shows the well-choreographed process involved, from pumping the concrete into rebar-latticed slabs via remote-controlled overhead boom, to vibrating the concrete to get rid of air pockets, to flattening the surface using 2x4s (“screed”) and rakes (“come-along tools”), to tamping in (“jitterbugging”) bits of sand and gravel, to the final smoothing and leveling of the finished surface. This pour created an extension to the southeast apron of Pier 15, adjacent to what will become the East Gallery.
Project: Exploratorium at the Piers | Browse All
Date: November 23, 2011
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): What is light? How is it made? In this video, staff physicist Ron Hipschman will talk about and demonstrate light, it's features and various ways it can be made as well as how colors mix.
Project: Color | Browse All
Date: November 16, 2011
Format: Lecture
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): physics Exploratorium neuroscientist Richard Brown discusses how we see color, how color vision evolved, why color vision varies from person to person, and how the scientific understanding of color vision has led to technologies such as color photography
Project: Color | Browse All
Date: November 16, 2011
Format: Lecture
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): physics Have you ever wondered where your plastic bottle goes after you toss it in the recycling bin? Take a little trip with us to the San Leandro Waste Management facility, where Rebecca Jewell tours us through the complex world of residential recycling.
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: November 9, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science In an unlikely corner of industrial southeastern San Francisco, a herd of 60 goats gambol on a 10-acre site ringed by a rail yard and a cement recycling plant. Meet the movers and munchers behind City Grazing, a local “rent-a-goat” service that provides an ecological alternative to lawn mowers and herbicides.
To learn more visit: http://citygrazing.com/
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: October 25, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science Take a look at the construction at Piers 15 and 17 from a different vantage point. This past August we recorded video of the Exploratorium's new home from a boat about 100 yards off the back of the piers.
Project: Exploratorium at the Piers | Browse All
Date: October 17, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
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