Calendar: MIND events in November and December Nov 14, 2009
At the California Science Center, the new exhibit RACE: Are We So Different. explores the biology of race as well as our personal and cultural experience of it. (Scientific American)
Seafood guide combines human and ocean health Oct 21, 2009
Executive Director Julie Packard unveiled the list and the aquarium's "State of Seafood" report Tuesday at the California Science Center in Los Angeles ... "The state of our oceans and global seafood is in crisis but the tide is turning," Packard said in an interview at the California Science Center, where the aquarium will have a role in a future exhibit. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Group wants 83 coral species listed as endangered Oct 21, 2009
Executive Director Julie Packard unveiled the list and the aquarium's "State of Seafood" report Tuesday at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Packard says ocean life remains under threat but she is optimistic because of new scientific consensus on how to manage fisheries and bring back those that are depleted. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
California stages massive earthquake drill Oct 16, 2009
"Drop, cover and hold on," dozens of fourth-graders chanted just before the announcement of a simulated earthquake sent them scurrying under tables at the California Science Center at 10:15 a.m.. At the same moment nearly 7 million other people up and down the state were expected to do the same while emergency agencies and hospitals began response drills and mass casualty exercises. (Honolulu Advertiser)
The Artistic Spectrum (7) Oct 4, 2009
Not So Different: The California Science Center tackles a big question this fall when it asks: Race: Are We Really So Different. Of course, the tough part is not asking the question, but rather answering it, and the Exposition Park facility attempts to do so. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
John Malkovich faces "Disgrace" Sep 19, 2009
" If you're having a hard time getting your head around exactly what happened in the historic meltdown of America's home-mortgage market, you're not alone. As the wife-and-husband investigative team Leslie and Andrew Cockburn suggest in their new documentary nobody fully understands it: Not the bankers and brokers who sold subprime mortgages (often using deceptive tactics or disingenuous language), not the Wall Street wizards who carved them up into ever more esoteric financial instruments, not... (Salon)
RACE: Are We So Different? Will Help Visitors Explore the Reality - and Unreality - of Race Sep 19, 2009
"Race" will be hosted at the California Science Center from October 3, 2009 until December 31, 2009. (PRNewsFoto/California Science Center, Terry Gydesen) LOS ANGELES, CA UNITED STATES ... Exhibit opens on October 3, 2009 at the California Science Center. (PR Newswire)
Disney's takeover of Marvel excites Lee Sep 13, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Jimmy Wayne to play Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 23. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Stan Lee still wields power in the comic book world Sep 4, 2009
Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press Comic book creator Stan Lee stands beside some of his drawings in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Walt Disney Co. has bought Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Who's to blame for the mortgage crisis? Sep 3, 2009
In this March 21, 2006 file photo, comic book creator Stan Lee stands beside some of his drawings in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Walt Disney Co. on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 said it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.. (Salon)
Move Networks Names Austin CEO Jul 14, 2009
She is on the board of trustees for the California Science Center. . (Multichannel News)
Let us not forget Roxanne Austin was also the chief organizer when Directv sued... Jul 14, 2009
She is on the board of trustees for the California Science Center. Move Networks, based in American Fork, Utah, earlier this year acquired Inuk Networks, a U.K. company that sold an IPTV platform that can deliver video to multiple PCs in a home, with targeted advertising and converged applications. (Multichannel News)
Pescadero student participates in state fair May 21, 2009
At the opening ceremony for the fair, held at the California Science Center on Monday, Cain listened to the speech of a woman who designs robotic equipment to assist people coping with strokes and autism. Cain said the woman s words inspired in her a desire to help people in whichever profession she pursues. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
We're All Made Up of a Thousand Different Stories; 'Identity: An Exhibition of You' on View May 22 - Sept. 8, 2009 May 12, 2009
Identity opens at the California Science Center May 22nd, 2009 and runs through September 8th, 2009 ... About the California Science Center ... The California Science Center's mission is as follows: "We aspire to stimulate curiosity and inspire science learning in everyone by creating fun, memorable experiences, because we value science as an indispensable tool for understanding our world, accessibility and inclusiveness, and enriching people's lives.". (PR Newswire)
No comments posted. May 3, 2009
Okay, its a flimsy argument, but whatever come help humanity, and yourself, with a few shots of sake and some food at the California Science Center on Thursday, April 23, from 7-9:30 p.m. The $60 admission fee to the event titled Mystery of Sake is the path to dozens of types of sake, along with some hors doeuvres ... At California Science Center, 700 State Dr. Information and registration at (213) 473-1615 or. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
'Eyewitness Testimony: Perception and Memory on Trial' Apr 6, 2009
Presented by the California Science Center. LOS ANGELES, April 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Science Center's Science Matters speakers program will investigate methods in our legal system with "Eyewitness Testimony: Perception and Memory on Trial" on Saturday, April 18, 2009, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eyewitness testimony is at the foundation of our judicial system, but its accuracy has recently been called into question by scientists and lawmakers alike ... Conan Nolan, NBC4... (PR Newswire)
The Big Picture (5) Mar 22, 2009
CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER. The California Science Center's 165 million phase two expansion featuring the World of Ecology is on track. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
