My colleague at the American Museum of Natural History Barry Joseph posted recently to the DML Central blog a post on "the Digitallearnification of Museums". This was based on a presentation that Barry, Eve Gaus of the Field Museum, and I made at the Digital Media and Learning conference a couple of months ago at …
Guys, this is the most amazing arachnid ever , the Bird dropping spider (Cyrtarachne sp.). Apparently the pulsing is caused by contractions in the gut of the spider that contain pigmented cells. There is no consensus about the evolutionary advantage of this, but it presumably could be to mimic a predator or warn would-be predators. More pics …
We took some nice group shots today of my Science Action Club team in front of the Cal Academy for our holiday greeting. Such a handsome bunch! We're so diverse and coordinated we look like a stock photo.
I really needed this short video from Emilie Graslie of The Brainscoop on her commitment to curiosity, diversity and science discourse. YES! Stay curious, challenge your own biases, champion science. Let's go.
Most young people can't distinguish between a fake news story and a legitimate source, a fake Twitter account and a real one, or an advertisement or the article it's contained within. This according to a new study released by Stanford University today. According to lead author Sam Wineburg and his co-researchers, youth across a wide range of …
This Saturday, I had the pleasure of driving a group of the California Academy of Science’s teen interns to beautiful Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay to go on a marine life collection expedition. The purpose of the trip was to work with a group of teens from the environmental nonprofit Nature Bridge to refresh …
2013 photo of the staff at the California Academy of Sciences Jon Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, sent this to all of us on the staff yesterday. I couldn't be more proud to work here. Dear Academy Family, I know that for many of us the last 24 hours have been …
This has not been the most science-rich election, among many of the other things that were lacking this political season. Science Debate has been working hard to make sure try and get science and environmental issues into the political discourse, largely to no avail. Which is a tragedy, since we live in times where our …
The California Academy of Science's is a world-class science research and educational facility, that hundreds of thousands of young people every year get to experience and learn from. However there are many more who can't travel to San Francisco to check out our living specimens and meet our scientists and educators. That's why we created …
If you love Claude the albino alligator, the mascot of the California Academy of Sciences, and you own an Apple iPhone or iPad, you need these new iMessage add-on "Swamp Life." You get a set of twenty text-able cartoons of your favorite Alligator mississipiensis to entertain and annoy everyone in your SMS list. My favorite: Claude in a tutu. …