The Cal Academy's senior curator of anthropology Dr. Zeray Alemseged is not only one of the world's experts on human evolution, he's also great at media sound bites. Here he is in Ethiopia with President Obama showing the President the 3.2 million-year-old fossil "Lucy," a key ancestor to the human race. Zeray noted that all …
“Mission Fishin” is a digital game created by a team of teens at the California Academy of Sciences last year to educate the public about how our scientists collect specimens in the field. The game focuses on how one of our scientists, Dr. David Catania, collects freshwater fish specimens. I know, sounds riveting, right? Well …
I’m still so impressed with the new “Color of Life” exhibit at my museum, the California Academy of Sciences. “Color of Life” focuses on the many amazing ways that color communicates, conceals, and warns in the natural world. We have such talented exhibit and experience designers on staff, and it’s cool to see them unleash …
Last week, Google Science Fair organized a neat Google Hangout with some of the scientists who went on the last Philippines Verde Island Passage Expedition. I caught some of it live and now am happy to share the full archive of the video chat below. Participants included: Terry Gosliner, senior curator of invertebrate zoology Elliott Jessup, …
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the space shuttle Endeavour (OV-105), now housed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. As a big space nerd, getting to be in the presence of one of the space shuttles was an enormous thrill! Five years ago, I had traveled to Florida, hoping to catch the last …
I’m jumping on a flight to LA for the Digital Media and Learning conference this weekend. But I am so so excited about our new “Color of Life” exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. Opening June 12, “Color of Life” explores how living things use color to attract, hide, repel, and deceive. I just got …
I'm excited to share the news that episode one of the podcast "Object Oriented" is now out! As a reminder, "Object Oriented" is a monthly audio podcast featuring my friends Barry Joseph, head of digital learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Eve Gaus of digital learning at the Field Museum in Chicago, and myself. Each episode, we talk about a …
Cal Academy research fellow Bryson Voirin is studying the adorable, elusive pygmy sloth, a critically endangered species that can be found on just one small island in the Caribbean. I love how he has to "race" to catch them! More about pygmy sloths and their endangered status on the WWF site. More about Bryson's research …
Check out this short and sweet video on the citizen science bioblitz that happened in March in Golden Gate Park. Created by Chloe, Mark and Madeleine of the California Academy of Sciences TechTeens program. For more about citizen science at the Academy, see http://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science.
The Teacher & Youth Education Department at the California Academy of Sciences has just posted five awesome positions we're hiring for. If you have a background in science education and want to work for an amazing science museum + research institution, give these positions a look: Bilingual Education Specialist Education Specialist: K-12 Curriculum Development and …