What If: City Museum Went Into Palace of Fine Arts?
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the Exploratorium gearing up for its move to the Embarcadero (2012's the plan), it's been suggested before that the shell it leaves behind...
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Cutting Ice into One with a Motorcycle
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Saturday Nov 7 Sunday Nov 8 @ Exploratorium Imagine a big block of ice suspended from the ceiling of the Exploratorium. Now imagine a wire wrapped around the middle of that ice block from which is hung a motorcycle. Chill out with other skeptics and watch the motorcycle fall to the floor as the wire very slowly cuts through the ice, but bear witness—the ice block remains one whole piece! Check...
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40th Anniversary Celebration Weekend
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Saturday Nov 7 Sunday Nov 8 @ Exploratorium To celebrate its 40th Anniversary , the Exploratorium offers the following electrifying, evanescent, and enlightening series of events. Note admission is free for the public on the November 4 as well as on the weekend of November 7 and 8. The schedule of events is as follows: - November 5: Exploratorium After Dark—Electrifying Science with Dr. MegaVolt...
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Visual, Perceptual Tricks Bamboozle Brain
Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Wired.com heads to San Francisco’s Exploratorium to see four exhibits that explore the effects of visual illusions and perceptual phenomena. Source: Wired [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Nightsketching the Palace of Fine Arts
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Our drive home from the city takes us past the Palace of Fine Arts - which we've drawn many times during the day. I've alwasy wanted to come back after dark and draw the spotlights on the sculpture. I found a good view from the 'far' side (opposite the Exploratorium entrance) where the lighting makes a great light-on-dark-on-light counter changed silhouettes. If you're out here Friday nights you might...
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August Coppola, Brother of Francis, Creator of Tactile Dome, Dies at 75
SFist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo: San Francisco State University August Coppola, who served as dean of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State and who created the famed Tactile Dome at the Exploratorium , died last week at his home in Los Angeles and the obit is just running today . The cause was a heart attack and August, brother to Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire and father to Nicholas Cage, was 75 years...
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Exploratorium, Embarcadero-Style: This is it, sort of! Following...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
This is it, sort of! Following a thumbs up from the Port Commission, the Exploratorium's plan to dial U-Haul and move to a bigger house...
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Museums: Wonders of Science at the Golden Gate
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Though the sensation of wonder is now too rarely cultivated, it was much on my mind during a recent visit to the new museum of the California Academy of Sciences.
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August Coppola, arts educator, dies at 75
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
He created the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome. He brought visual arts to the blind. And as an arts educator, author and former trustee of the California State University system, August Coppola is remembered as a Renaissance man. The former dean of the College...
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Nicolas Cage's father dies
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
THE father of Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage, August Coppola, has died. The respected literature professor passed away on October 27 (2009) after suffering a heart attack outside his home in Los Angeles at the age of 75. Coppola, the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, also had two other sons in show business – actor Marc Coppola and writer-director Christopher Coppola....
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Professor August Coppola dies at 75
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Obituary: Father of actor Nicolas Cage -- Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, died Tuesday after a heart attack. He was 75.
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The limits of inquiry in Redwood City
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
After visiting the Exploratorium, Bob Lambertson of Redwood City was so inspired by the spirit of experimentation that he decided to do a first-person investigation of the speed of sound in train rails. Finding himself near tracks, he put his ear down to them...
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NASA's LCROSS Mission Bomb | NASA Kennedy's Coverage of LCROSS Lunar Impact
sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/09/2009
NASA's LCROSS Mission Bomb | NASA Kennedy's Coverage of LCROSS Lunar Impact NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is to send a booster rocket traveling at twice the speed of a bullet to blast a hole in the lunar surface near the moon’s South pole looking to see if there is ice mixed in the soil of the crater’s floor. Scientists think there may be billions
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Ok... First off to start, it's great to see that NASA's scientists and engineers are staying busy with the idea of off world exploration! But, however,...
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Ok... First off to start, it's great to see that NASA's scientists and engineers are staying busy with the idea of off world exploration! But, however,...
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Ways to See LCROSS Crash on Friday Morning
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
This Friday morning should be a historic day for space exploration. At 7:31 AM EST on Friday October 9, 2009, NASA will be crashing-into-the-moon-for-science. As our kids are heading off to school, the LCROSS mission will be underway. The mission will first crash a rocket into the moon’s southern pole while the craft with all the [...]
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Shoot the Moon! Live webcast of lunar impact
Astronomy (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The LCROSS mission is seeking to find if water ice is present in a crater near the Moon's south pole.
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NASA's LCROSS Mission Bomb | NASA Kennedy's Coverage of LCROSS Lunar Impact
sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/09/2009
NASA's LCROSS Mission Bomb | NASA Kennedy's Coverage of LCROSS Lunar Impact NASA’s LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is to send a booster rocket traveling at twice the speed of a bullet to blast a hole in the lunar surface near the moon’s South pole looking to see if there is ice mixed in the soil of the crater’s floor. Scientists think there may be billions of gallons of
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Ok... First off to start, it's great to see that NASA's scientists and engineers are staying busy with the idea of off world exploration! But, however,...
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Ok... First off to start, it's great to see that NASA's scientists and engineers are staying busy with the idea of off world exploration! But, however,...