I just read a chapter from the book Behavior Change Theories and Free-Choice Environmental Learning (2009) that examines behavior change theories as they apply to environmental learning and action. The author Nicole Ardoin of Stanford University reviews several relevant behavior change theories that are particularly relevant to institutions that offer "free-choice" environmental learning. That is, places …
Check out this super fun music video produced by some dancer friends of mine, an homage to our sister science museum the Exploratorium! Big congrats to main instigator and star Jade Stone!
I’m in a dance battle with Oliver, one of our teen museum volunteers, trying to move like a peacock spider in love. His moves are slightly better than mine — his head grows to enormous proportions and sprouts antennae. Then fuzzy legs spring from his abdomen. I am … still me. My dance moves just …
In connection to the California Academy's of Science's latest planetarium show "Incoming!" our visualization studio has created this awe inspiring, 360 degree video of a nearby comet. The video depicts the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft buzzing near comet 67P, also known as Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or “Churi” for short). You can see Rosetta launch a small lander …
I'm excited to share the news that the California Academy of Sciences is hosting our second annual Science Game Jam from April 23-24 at our museum. It's going to be a fun and exciting weekend of game jamming around science topics for select Bay Area teens. Applications to participate in the jam have just opened, and …