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 …
Teen Science Night at the California Academy of Sciences is BACK on Friday August 14! Teen Science Night is a free event open to all Bay Area youth aged 13-18 to come explore science through fun activities led by teens from a dozen different organizations, including Chabot Space and Science Center, the San Francisco Zoo, …
Barry Joseph of AMNH, Eve Gaus of the Field Museum and I have published episode two of Object-oriented, the podcast on digital learning at collections-based museums. In this episode we focus on a topic near and dear to my heart: games-based learning. While lots of other blogs, podcasts, and articles have thoroughly examined and deconstructed …
I didn't even realize there was a World Emoji Day. Apparently its on July 17? Anyway, this tweet from the @Calacademy account was particularly adorable. In honor of #WorldEmojiDay, visit us & we'll show you for-realz versions of 🐧🐍🐆🐢🐙🐠🌴🐚🐊🐟🐯🐡🐸🐞🌺🐜🐝🌠🌎 pic.twitter.com/KZtwj9O6ta — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) July 17, 2015
The field of digital learning professionals in science and natural history museums is a miniscule one. So when a new blog appears focusing on digital learning at a museum, it makes me very happy. My colleagues at the Field Museum of Chicago have just launched a new blog called Digital Field Notes focused on their …
“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 …
We often have need of headshots to use for conferences and events that we are participating in from our department. I realized last week that I don't have any nice portraits of me done in our museum, so I asked my colleague Jeff to run around the Cal Academy and shoot me in various locales. …
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 …