Museum of Science
It'll be like that time the Beatles met in that library on the Quebec/Vermont border
By adamg - 12/14/10 - 8:29 pmThe Boston and Cambridge city councils will hold a rare joint meeting on Thursday, to discuss ways of making the Boston area more economically competitive (apparently, Cambridge councilors have gotten over their fear of Boston).
The meeting, which starts at 3 p.m., is in the one building that straddles the line between the two cities - the Museum of Science. Rather than just milling about awkwardly by the border painted on the floor near the entrance, though, they'll be meeting in the Cahners Theater, on the Cambridge side of the building,
New trees by the Museum of Science
By adamg - 10/31/10 - 9:18 amMark Jaquith reports on 20 linden tree planted last week in front of the Museum of Science to replace the trees cut down in January for road and sidewalk work:
It will be a real pleasure to regain the shade, cooling and wonderful smell of the flowers when they bloom in early summer.
The planetarium won't be the same without it
By adamg - 1/4/10 - 1:14 am
Chris Devers reports yesterday was the last day ever for the barbell-shaped Zeiss projector at the Museum of Science's planetarium. He says they're getting a state-of-the-art projector that'll be able to do all sorts of cool stuff, but, really, it'd be a little like showing up for the indoor lightning show only to find out the giant towers have been replaced with a laser.
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Forget Ben and his wheel; this guy moves an entire planet
By adamg - 5/3/09 - 9:33 pmSteve Nadis explains how he came by to move Mars today.
It's fun to find out what makes an ocean wave wave!
By adamg - 2/21/09 - 11:32 pmOf course, you can't watch this Museum of Science ad without also watching this New England Aquarium commercial.
The only right way to see the laser show at the Museum of Science
By adamg - 10/5/08 - 10:34 amIs under the influence of some mind-altering drug, Erin suggests:
... At this point, the whole "Dark Side" mythos is so overblown that I can't hear a note of it without being thrown back into some cliche college legend - probably one involving scag weed and "The Wizard of Oz". Sitting in the planetarium, head craned back and neck cramping from the angle, I was acutely aware that if I'd done this years earlier I would have had the good sense to enjoy it in a much more fitting manner. ...
Livening up the Museum of Science
By adamg - 9/12/08 - 7:28 amBrian McFadden has a couple of naming suggestions that could go a long way toward bringing back excitement to the museum.
Museum of Science seeks to install wind turbines on its roof
By adamg - 7/10/08 - 12:06 pmSeven altogether; goes before the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal on July 29 for a variance.
Via John Keith.
