 | 2008 California State Yo-Yo Championship Event Preview
All wound up with nothing to do? Swing by the Exploratorium on September 6th, beginning at 10am, for the 2008 California State Yo-Yo Championships. Meet National and World Yo-Yo Champions, watch daredevil tricks, and learn basic techniques from yo-yo masters. This event is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium. Registration is open to the public and begins at 10am. Winners will qualify for next year's regional tournament. For more information, go to www.calstateyoyo.com.
Video release date: 2008-08-17
Running Time: 00:00:51
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 | Total Solar Eclipse 2008: Live from China
On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse occurred as the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s umbral shadow fell on parts of Canada, Greenland, the Arctic Ocean, Russia, Mongolia, and China. The Exploratorium’s eclipse expedition team (our fifth!) Webcast the eclipse live from the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China near the Mongolian border.
Video release date: 2008-08-01
Running Time: 01:13:00
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| Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China Totality Highlights
Watch totality highlights.
Video release date: 2008-08-01
Running Time: 00:03:45
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| Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China Telescope-Only
Watch the telescope-only stream of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 1, 2008.
Video release date: 2008-08-00
Running Time: 01:04:45
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 | Total Solar Eclipse 2008: Live from China Webcast Preview
An Exploratorium and NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum Event
Overnight eclipse viewing party at Exploratorium begins July 31, 2008 at
9pm. and continues through Friday, August 1 in the wee hours.
San Francisco's Exploratorium brings its fifth eclipse expedition team to
remote Xinjiang Province in Northwestern China, very close to the Mongolian
border, where the Exploratorium will webcast a total solar eclipse live to
the world. Spend the Night at the Exploratorium! See the eclipse in person
live at the Exploratorium. Pack your sleeping bag and camp out on the museum
floor for an overnight eclipse party...or come to the viewing party in Second Life and enjoy the live webcast, exhibits, and music.
Video release date: 2008-07-19
Running Time: 00:01:09
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 | 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing
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.
Video release date: 2008-03-31
Running Time: 00:03:50
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 | Mind: A Major Exhibit Collection with 40 New Exhibits
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.
Video release date: 2008-03-01
Running Time: 00:04:14
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 | Celebrating the Anniversary of Pi Day at the Exploratorium
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.
Video release date: 2008-02-20
Running Time: 00:04:05
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 | Scalable Cities
Artist Sheldon Brown creates an urban/suburban/rural environment in which the visitor literally "paints" the flying landscape with highways, buildings, and automobiles. This exhibit was part of the Virtual Unreality exhibition.
Video release date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 00:02:10
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 | Total Solar Eclipse: More Images from Turkey
Live program from Side, Turkey Images from the Total Solar Eclipse that took place on March 28-29, 2006.
Video release date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 00:03:34
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 | Aeolian Landscape: Press Video
An clip of the Aeolian Landscape exhibit by artist Ned Kahn. Blowing air sculpts sand into an ever-changing landscape.
Video release date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:11
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 | Zebra Fish Development
Witness the amazing development of live embryos at the microscope imaging station, part of the Traits of Life Collection.
Video release date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:51
Related Website: Microscope Imaging Station
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 | Exploratorium B-Roll Sample
This short preview clip of the larger B-Roll video has footage of the Exploratorium, inside and out, including scenes of children interacting with museum exhibits.
Video release date: 2005-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:35
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 | San Francisco in Jell-O
This wobbly luminescent sculpture by Liz Hickok is both art work and a
simulation of how a San Francisco neighborhood might jiggle when the Big One strikes.
Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:40
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 | TV PSA: Thermodynamics
A humorous look at thermodynamics at the Exploratorium, part of the
Exploratorium's "For the Curious Ones" campaign.
Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:26
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| TV PSA: Surgery
A humorous look at interactivity in the operating room, part of the
Exploratorium's "For the Curious Ones" campaign.
Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:31
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