Omni Brain

I'm heading out to San Francisco in a couple weeks and am looking forward to hitting up the Exploratorium! Too bad I'm going to be missing this exhibition coming in November!

Mind
Opens November 9, 2007-December 31, 2008

In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition featuring over 40 brand-new interactive exhibits. In a very real sense, you'll discover that the exhibits in Mind are actually within yourself.

At A Sip of Conflict, for example, drink from a water fountain fashioned from a very real but unused toilet. The tension between reason and emotion runs high in this experience at the heart of the exhibition. At Limelight, stand before a simulated lively audience and examine your own emotional and cognitive reactions to being the center of attention. Combining exhibits, activities, demonstrations, public programs, and specially commissioned artist installations probing the mysteries of thought and emotion, this exhibition invites you to experience -- as never before -- the workings of your own mind. Mind is made possible by with the support of the National Science Foundation.

For images, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/pdf/Mind_PRimages.pdf

It looks like there might be some interesting exhibits going on while I am in San Fran though! Anyone want to meet up with me to explore? Maybe I can even convince the museum to hook me up with a couple free passes for the "press" ;)

Check out what's happening while I'm in San Francisco below the fold:

Creatures from the New Lagoon Festival Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon Saturday, May 12, 2007, 10am-2pm

Discover the wild side of the Palace of Fine Arts. Celebrate the wildlife, history, and architecture of the Palace of Fine Arts by joining the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Oakland Museum of California,
and Golden Gate Audubon Society in a variety of activities for nature lovers of all ages, organized by the Maybeck Foundation. Enjoy food, storytelling, music, and crafts beside the exquisite, newly renovated lagoon. In
addition, at 2pm, the Exploratorium offers historic films about the Palace of Fine Arts, and old, historic San Francisco.

Historic San Francisco and the Blues
Films at the Exploratorium in May 2007

This May, the Exploratorium's Film Program features films on the history of
San Francisco and on the rural and urban blues. Learn about San Francisco
at the time of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and view two rare
black-and-white films documenting blues musicians from urban New York City
and rural Mississippi.

Cassini Update with Exploratorium Senior Scientist Dr. Paul Doherty
May 12, 2007 at 1pm

The Cassini spacecraft continues to orbit Saturn, sending back astonishing images of the ringed planet and its moons. Join us as we look at the latest images and do some hands-on activities to help understanding.

Physics of Toys: Mathemagical Marvels
Saturday, May 19, 2007
11am-3pm

This month, the Exploratorium's Physics of Toys team celebrates mathematics. Build games and puzzles demonstrating the beauty and magic of mathematics. Make binary birthday bracelets, flexagons, Tower of Hanoi games, and string and ring puzzles. Take home what you make.

Liminality: Art on the Threshold
Continues Through June 3, 2007

This art exhibition builds on a rich history of boundary-bending projects that play with the Exploratorium's home, the airplane-hangar-like Palace of Fine Arts interior.