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2013-08-10 01:01
in Sciencemuseums
I often go to science museums in cities around the world, and I enjoy demos that make science look cool to others, outside of a cool "science, it works bitches" :)
Well, I have to say that the Exploratorium in San Francisco is the clear winner so far. They have hours (4H+ for us), of cool demos and science related exhibits, most of which I've never seen anywhere else. If does not make science cool to others.
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![fun with magnetism fun with magnetism](/blogimg/01/thumb1024_101_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
fun with magnetism
![the slingy that goes doewn forever, cool idea the slingy that goes doewn forever, cool idea](/blogimg/04/thumb1024_104_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
the slingy that goes doewn forever, cool idea
![the plate turned and the challenge was to draw a square on it. I failed. the plate turned and the challenge was to draw a square on it. I failed.](/blogimg/05/thumb1024_105_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
the plate turned and the challenge was to draw a square on it. I failed.
![this was cool! Seeing decomposition of a rat fed to a beetle colony after a few weeks. this was cool! Seeing decomposition of a rat fed to a beetle colony after a few weeks.](/blogimg/08/thumb1024_108_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
this was cool! Seeing decomposition of a rat fed to a beetle colony after a few weeks.
![very nice aquaphobic plant very nice aquaphobic plant](/blogimg/09/thumb1024_109_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
very nice aquaphobic plant
![I had never seen termites before, cool I had never seen termites before, cool](/blogimg/11/thumb1024_111_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
I had never seen termites before, cool
![example of fractal-like figures in nature example of fractal-like figures in nature](/blogimg/12/thumb1024_112_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
example of fractal-like figures in nature
![you could see a live chick embryo in an egg you could see a live chick embryo in an egg](/blogimg/19/thumb1024_119_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
you could see a live chick embryo in an egg
![special cool looking fish bred by humans special cool looking fish bred by humans](/blogimg/20/thumb1024_120_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
special cool looking fish bred by humans
![](/blogimg/21/thumb1024_121_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
![grow your mushrooms at home. Yeah, I do that :) grow your mushrooms at home. Yeah, I do that :)](/blogimg/24/thumb1024_124_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
grow your mushrooms at home. Yeah, I do that :)
![sublimation of frozen liquid nitrogen sublimation of frozen liquid nitrogen](/blogimg/27/thumb1024_127_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
sublimation of frozen liquid nitrogen
Since we were in San Francisco, and had paid the lovely parking fee which can go over $30 now, we walked around Fisherman's Warf and Pier 39.
![$40 parking is full, great... $40 parking is full, great...](/blogimg/43/thumb1024_143_20130810_Exploratorium.jpg)
$40 parking is full, great...
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