Tag: Pacific Science Center
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I don’t know how it happened. In my transition from TV journalist to independent media maker, to now educator and public convener I became a museum guy. After all, aren’t museums those quaint, high maintenance, heavy infrastructure monoliths of centuries gone by? Why look up from our screens when all in creation is available at…
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I’ve tried a few digital sabbaths, and I realize that I’m fooling myself in this age of technological mobility. Even if I’m not communicating directly with others on my smart device, I’m using it to read books, listen to music and watch videos. So this month, I watered down the “cold turkey” approach to something…
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“Can girls do that too and stuff?” my daughter Rose asked me, for the second time. We were both glued to the live YouTube feed of Felix Baumgartner’s awe-inspiring freefall jump from the edge of space, even as we were visiting Seattle’s Museum of Flight (which curiously, wasn’t screening the historic event anywhere). My four…
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I attended the opening King Tut gala last night at the Pacific Science Center (I’m on the Board of Directors). Obviously, the story of Tut is an amazing one — boy king who dies at 19, but fulfills the pharaoh’s objective of eternal life by being glorified when his tomb is discovered in the 1920’s.…
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