- Learning Studio - week of May 5

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From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 11:59:31 PDT 

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From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu>
Subject:  - Learning Studio - week of May 5

The big news this week is 5 new swans in the lagoon, 5 gray fuzzy cygnets
following their parents around. This brings the swan population up to 9.
Ducklings have also been sighted but for how long, someone mentioned seeing
a fox one morning.

And at the Learning Studio we have been having a small feeding frenzy of
shopping for various new materials including some new supplies.

On to the announcements:

WEB SITE OF THE WEEK:

California Dragonflies & Damselflies
http://www.sonic.net/dragonfly/

The web site of Kathy Biggs amateur naturalist, dragonfly expert and
occasional Exploratorium visitor.

She also has some Bay Area speaking engagements coming up that may be of
interest:

Oakland Museum of California (free event)
Dazzling Dragonflies of the Bay Area''
12:30 p.m. May 16
10th and Oak streets in Oakland.
Call (510) 238-2200.

Botanic Garden in Berkeley (pay event)
A walk from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. June 2
Fee is $25 to $30.
Call (925) 631-6614.

More on her and dragonflies at:
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1804%257E601205,00.html

SCIENCE NEWS:

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/56/

An article from The Universe in the Classroom, a newsletter published by
the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific.

Covered is an overview of how scientists date astronomical data. The
article is also intended to addresses the issue of Creationist challenges
to science education.

Included is a PDF version for easy printing.

Thanks to Richard Brooks for the heads up on this one.

PRINTED, NEW ACQUISITIONS:

A History of Great Inventions / James Dyson ; edited by Robert Uhlig.
General collection circ.
T 15 .D87 2001

OK OK I'll stop looking at the book and start writing short description.

Divided into historical periods this is a great browsing book for
discovering much of the history of those objects that make life so
enjoyable, or not. On the enjoyable side is Melitta Bentz without who's
contribution we would be filtering the grinds at the bottom of our coffee
cups through our teeth. Or the development of frozen food for reselling by
Clarence Birdseye.

I better stop here as it has taken forever to write the above text, I just
keep getting distracted by the book.

VIDEO, NEW ACQUISITIONS

And finally a couple of videos folks may wish to look at.

The Four Corners [videorecording] : a national sacrifice area? / Bullfrog
Films, produced in association with The Graduate School of Journalism,
University of California, Berkeley ; produced by Christopher McLeod, Glenn
Switkes, Randy Hayes ; written and directed by Christopher McLeod.
General collection circ.
TJ 163.25 .S7 F6 1994

South [videorecording] : Sir Ernest Shackleton's glorious epic of the
Antarctic / restored by the National Film and Television Archive of the
British Film Institute ; directed by Frank Hurley ; restored by Brenda
Hudson.
General collection circ.
G 872 .H87 1999

Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
Learning Studio, Exploratorium Museum

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