Adrian Hon talks about his visit to the Exploratorium in San Fancisco. I’ve heard a lot about this place and it sounds fun. Hopefully the Science Museum’s new Launchpad gallery will more than match up to that level and quality of interactivity.
By chance, I stumbled onto the ‘Teachers TV‘ channel on my Freeview box before going to bed this evening. I was aiming to quickly check in on BBC News 24, which is channel 40, but for some reason the set-top box seems to have re-numbered the channels so that Teachers TV is what you get [...]
Today marked the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. BBC News Online has put together a good selection of articles, under the banner Chernobyl: 20 years on. The Wikipedia article on the Chernobyl disaster is also well worth reading. I also went to the Dana Centre event Chernobyl and the Nuclear Debate. At the [...]
I’m off work today, but I just noticed that the Science Museum has just published an ‘Antenna’ science news article on Could we have saved the Thames whale? (the conclusion seems to be ‘no’). I’m not sure whether this has been installed on gallery too (some of the stories are web-only), but it’s nice to [...]