8 Jun 2021
🌊 Happy #WorldOceansDay! Today we celebrate our oceans, which are the heart of our planet’s weather & climate systems. Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, oceans absorb huge amounts of solar energy. (1/2).
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29 Apr 2021
Tonight 4/29: Join us at After Dark: Forever Chemicals. Join Meredith Williams, Director, CA Department of Toxic Substances Control and Debbie Raphael, Director, SF Department of the Environment to learn about toxic “forever” chemicals: explo.me/EULm30rEGtL
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22 Apr 2021
Model the carbon cycle with the Exploratorium's at-home activity Follow the Carbon 🌱explo.me/k6DZ30rEoXp
This Earth Day, explore science activities that help us understand the links between our actions & the environment.
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22 Apr 2021
Happy #EarthDay! Join us at After Dark: Earth Day at 7 p.m. PT. 🌎
We'll look toward our local landscapes and highlight organizations who expose inequitable impacts of climate change and advocate for environmental justice: explo.me/uazD30rBjUE
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19 Apr 2021
Watch water swell & shrink with changes in temperature with the Exploratorium's at-home activity Swelling Seas: explo.me/iiXW30rE07V
This Earth Day, explore science activities that help us understand the links between our actions & the environment.
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12 Dec 2020
Build a simple model to explore the influence of the sun and moon on our tides in the Exploratorium's at-home activity Tide-O-Matic: explo.me/IZS530rmGAj
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13 Nov 2020
What causes these extraordinarily #King Tides? Tune in to find out more and watch dramatic king tides near the Exploratorium with the Exploratorium's Ron Hipschman in Full-Spectrum Science: explo.me/3blX30riSc8
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12 Nov 2020
Find out how gravity & the distance between the earth & the moon create tidal bulges (high tides) on both the near & far side of the earth with the Exploratorium #ScienceSnack Dance of the Tides: explo.me/CkP430riS6v
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11 Nov 2020
Calling all citizen scientists: join us in observing and documenting the #KingTides, which occur when the highest tides of the day coincide with the highest tides of the month and the highest tides of the season, around the winter and summer solstices.
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15 Oct 2020
We're live! Join us now to see the Exploratorium staff lift our one-ton, 20-foot-tall @NOAA CO2 buoy out of the water for its annual cleaning, and explore the organisms that have colonized the buoy bottom: youtu.be/MLAazSv48io
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14 Oct 2020
We hope to "SEA" you tomorrow, ExplOrers 🌊
Watch live online as we lift our one-ton, 20-foot-tall CO2 buoy out of the water & explore its scientific instruments & the organisms that have colonized the buoy bottom: explo.me/aaLG30rcCu5
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28 May 2020
🌊 Celebrate #WorldOceansDay with the Exploratorium on June 8.
Join us for discussions & films that explore the sights & sounds of the sea, from the lapping shoreline of the SF Bay to the call of a deep-diving whale off of the Pacific Coast: explo.me/F4dm30qKwm5
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21 Apr 2020
Tomorrow is #EarthDay – join us in celebration, wherever you are!
Join the Exploratorium for a virtual program exploring some of the big ideas behind the science of the Earth’s systems.
🌎Wed., April 22 at 1 p.m. PDT
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15 Apr 2020
What do you think it would be like if you were the earth experiencing compressional forces? Speed up geologic time with a sedimentary squeeze with the at-home activity, Squeezebox: explo.me/5j2030qwWF3
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14 Apr 2020
Between Pier 15 & Pier 17 floats a large buoy covered in tools to collect data about carbon dioxide in SF Bay. But how did it get to the Exploratorium? Follow its journey to the Bay in this special #throwback video: explo.me/6Cas30qwUoN
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13 Apr 2020
Explore the body’s first line of defense against pathogens in the at-home activity, Skin Shield. In this #ScienceSnack, a tomato lets you see what happens when you breach this line of defense.
Explore more: explo.me/t9at30qwTpG
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12 Apr 2020
Discover something new about our environment with the Exploratorium's Wired Pier Data Explorer.
Curious? Compare different types of measurements—such as rainfall, water temperature, or carbon dioxide—and see what you discover: explo.me/He1S30qwSeh
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10 Apr 2020
🌎Discover how researchers study climate change & examine the latest scientific data. Global Climate Change Explorer provides an interactive way to explore a small part of the scientific data online. Curious? Start your journey: explo.me/yLp330qwSbl
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10 Apr 2020
Examine the baby plants inside the seeds we eat with the Exploratorium at-home activity, See Inside a Seed.
Learn your way around a legume as you explore the various structures that protect & feed a developing plant embryo: explo.me/rRDR30qwS05
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9 Apr 2020
It's me! #ExploClimate #EarthDay50
9 Apr 2020
Celebrate #EarthDay online with the Exploratorium, wherever you are!
On April 22 at 1 p.m. PST, the Exploratorium is hosting a virtual program exploring some of the big ideas behind the science of the Earth’s systems: explo.me/rIW530qwEqu
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