Had a great time yesterday with my kids at the Explorit museum in Davis, CA. Some pics and vids are below
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| Cichlids at entrance |
Really nice dissecting scope / viewing scope with video monitor:
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| Dissecting scope |
Lots of good displays on agriculture which is a good think in and around the Central Valley
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| Why are fertilizers important? |
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| Are all soils the same? |
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| Agricultural space |
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| More activities |
Really nice activity making a bracelet that reflected where water goes in the environment.
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| Awesome game on water flow |
Really helpful staff
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| Sifting seeds in water or not water |
Snake …
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| Checking out the python |
Bugs:
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| Giant cave cockroaches |
Grind your own grain:
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| Add grain |
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| Add grain |
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| Floating ball |
Best activity: make your own floating spider …
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| How spiders float |
//www.youtube.com/get_player
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| Ball python time |
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| Ball python |
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| Ball python |
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| Spider display |
Author: Jonathan Eisen
I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis
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