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The Seattle Traveler (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s been nearly 40 years since Southcenter Mall opened, and today it celebrates is long overdue, and much needed, facelift with a Grand Opening of the re-branded Westfield Southcenter. This expansion makes Southcenter the largest shopping mall in the Seattle area. Opening weekend will be full of special events, entertainment, and store promotions giving you [...]
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Blog Fabulous (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Aren’t his mirrored sun glasses great? I’ve been striking a pose in them all week. Little kissy face, little dramatic tossing the scarf around my neck, little boogie dance, little check out my cleavage in this top, don’t you wish I had 5 more? We’ll tourist some more until this afternoon, when I get to go [...]
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Candy Addict (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
(Image Courtesy of The Exploratorium) Many people are probably aware of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, but few are likely aware of its relation to candy. When this scientific tenet is applied to candy, the theory states that a candy’s taste is relative to its surroundings. Okay, so maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but [...]
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CU-Online (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Retrieved from Converge Online, July 14, 2008 Teachers are demonstrating the X, Y and Z-axes of geometric shapes, rigging alcohol burners, explaining density and illustrating fluid dynamics -- with a soda can.
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peterme.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
There’s a lot happening yon Adaptive Path way as we gear up for UX Week 2008. We’ve just announced the actual super final completing of our program, including Jury Hahn, and the presentations we’ll get from the folks at the Exploratorium. My colleague Leah Buley conducted a marvelous interview with Audrey Chen, lead IA on TheDailyShow.com. [...]
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Adaptive Path (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
So, I keep posting that UX Week 2008 programming is finished, but we keep adding to the program. The program is now for real and truly complete. We’ve added Jury Hahn, from MegaPhone, who will talk using mobile phones as game controllers in the real world, and explore the intersection of game design, interaction design, [...]
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SFist (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
As if you needed any more proof that an eclipse is a demonic portent of doom, the Exploratorium has announced that it will be sending an expedition to someplace near Mongolia to videotape the eclipse on July 31 ... so that they can stream the footage into Second Life . Not, like, into the sky of Second Life -- just onto a big virtual projection screen, which your avatars can then gather around and...
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redline (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
During the 4th International Conference on eSocial Science among some interesting presentation ( here here and here ) and an inspiring keynote I attended a presentation, gave by Marshall Scott Poole (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), about Virtual Worlds: An Exploratorium for Theorizing and Modelling the Dynamics of Network and Group Behaviour , an ongoing research project about Everquest...
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Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The Renegade Craft Fair, featuring over 200 DIY craft vendors, takes place Saturday, July 12th and Sunday, July 13th at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco. RCF has gained a reputation over the last five years as being the biggest, best and the most well-known of all the DIY craft fairs out there. Each [...]
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Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
guest post by mikl-em The Long Now Foundation presents Mechanicrawl, an exploration of mechanical marvels which takes place this Saturday, July 12th in San Francisco. Here a video of The Long Now Foundation’s Alexander Rose introducing Mechanicrawl. This Saturday a very special event in San Francisco ties together several of SF’s most storied attractions, all of which have [...]
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Long Views (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Saturday July 12 02008, from 3pm to 8pm Mechanicrawl is a progressive tour through the mechanical wonders of San Francisco’s North Shore. You’ll be able to map your own route to see the SS Jeremiah O’Brien with it’s giant steam engine running, the most complex mechanical computer ever built, The Torpedo Data Computer aboard the [...]
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Eyebeam (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
god told them to build it ---J With summer here, vacations are on my mind and I’ve had my eye out for fun places to visit. On of my most favorite places I ever visited is San Francisco’s Exploratorium . Hundreds of gadgets, experiments, and cool mind tricks break kids into the exciting elements of science. I also adore museums, especially of natural history. I think that if I were going to find a...
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SFist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Photo by exuberance/Flickr The best place to smoke a joint while you're waiting for you ecstasy to kick in before you spend the day at the Exploratorium, it seems, is undergoing some sort of face lift.
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum teams up with NASA to deliver a Webcast of the upcoming total solar eclipse to the 3D virtual world and other online viewers.
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CNET News.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
In the wee hours of August 1, the moon and the sun will pass each other for a breathtaking full solar eclipse, but U.S. residents won't be able to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon because of their location on the planet. San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum ...