Cambridge Science Festival | 2008 Festival

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2008 Festival Events Saturday, April 26 Check regularly for event updates

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10:00am - 12:00pm

Walk on the Wild Side

Alewife Reservation off of the Alewife T stop

Cover your body well! Grab a water bottle and good walking shoes and head out with Tracker and Birder David Brown!! He will lead the group up the north trail to Little Pond, a one mile treck to see the multiple eco-systems and perhaps evidence of gray fox and river otter.

Cost: Donations graciously accepted

Thanks to: Friends of Alewife Reservation
10:00am

Exhibition Gallery Talk and Booksigning with Henry Horenstein

26 Oxford Street, the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Join us this weekend as we mark the closing of Looking at Animals: Photographs by Henry Horenstein and the publication of Animalia, a new volume of the best of the Horenstein's animal work, includining 35 unpublished photographs.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Cost: Included with museum admission

Thanks to: Harvard Museum of Natural History
10:00am - 5:00pm

Environmental Health Science: A Closer Look at Environmental Exposures

MIT Museum, 265 Mass. Ave.

Curious about how the environment affects you? Come learn how exposures can affect your lung and airway health. Try out a simple peak flow meter to assess your own airway health. Watch an image of your face as the computer morphs it with age. It will show you how you would look with exposure to tobacco smoke and UV radiation. Did you know that exposure to UV radiation can cause DNA damage too? Come experiment with LEGO DNA models and learn how you can protect your skin from DNA damage. A collaboration between the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences and the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health.

MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Cost: Free

Thanks to: MIT Center for Environmental Sciences and the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
10:00am - 2:00pm

Well, Blow Me Down

Cambridge Public Library, Central Square Branch Children's Room, 359 Broadway

Experience a hands-on exhibit exploring the wind and things that whirl!

Cambridge Public Library

Cost: Free

Thanks to: Cambridge Public Library
10:00am - 4:00pm

Vanity Peptides

The Museum of Science, Cahners ComputerPlace

Ever wonder what your name would look like written in the molecular language of life? This interactive exhibit will enable participants to translate text into custom protein and nucleic acid biochemical structures while exploring the symbolic nature of encryption, the Central Dogma and protein structure.

Cost: Included with museum admission

Thanks to: Ethan Levesque and the Museum of Science
10:30am - 4:00pm

Live Science Presentations

Museum of Science Exhibit Halls

Take in the Museum of Science's live programs on such topics as live animals, lightning, optical illusions, and current science.

More details...

Cost: Included with museum admission.

Thanks to: Museum of Science
12:00 - 8:00pm

A Gallery of Sound: A Science of Sound Exhibit

Passim Center for the Arts Gallery, 47 Palmer St, inside Club Passim

Cost: Free

Thanks to: The National Science Foundation, Tufts University's Musical Instrument Engineering Program, Chris and Meredith Thompson
12:00 - 1:00pm Weather permitting

Solar Lunch

On the plaza in front of the Museum of Science

Observe the sun and possibly sunspots and solar flares through the Museum's safe solar telescope.

More details...

Cost: Free

Thanks to: Museum of Science
12:00 - 4:00pm

Science Carnival

Cambridge City Hall, 795 Mass Ave.

Kick-off the nation's first science festival in style at our signature Science Carnival! City Hall will be buzzing with demonstrations, activities, and give-aways. From live animals to building contests to green chemistry - it's all at City Hall!!

Events in detail

Cost: Free

Thanks to: The City of Cambridge
1:00pm, 3:00pm

Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show

Museum of Science, Cahners Theater

Join Dan & Joel as they jiggle and juggle their way through the mysteries of the atomic world. Who knew nanoscale physics and chemistry could be this much fun?

Cost: Included with museum admission

Thanks to: Museum of Science
1:00pm, 3pm

The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show

The Museum of Science, Cahners Theater

Join Dan & Joel as they jiggle and juggle their way through the mysteries of the atomic world. Who knew nanoscale physics and chemistry could be this much fun?

Cost: Included with museum admission

Thanks to: The Museum of Science, the Amazing Nano Brothers
6:30pm

Banned In Boston

MIT, Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue

Come laugh out loud while lending your support to Urban Improv, the nationally acclaimed violence prevention program that is making a profound difference in the lives of thousands of young people in Cambridge, Boston, and beyond. Banned In Boston: A Madcap Musical Revue is the ridiculous night of ribald revelry that brings together the biggest names in science, politics, sports and media for a one-night-only night of comedy, music, and fabulous cuisine - all to benefit Urban Improv.

Urban Improv

Cost: $200 Fundraiser for Urban Improv

Thanks to: Urban Improv
8:00 - 10:00pm

Gamelan Galak Tika performance

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center

Spanning the past to the future, the local and the global, Galak Tika brings the ancient beauty of Balinese gamelan together with guitars, basses and keyboards. Featuring master dancers I Made Bandem and Ni Made Suasti, as well as fusion Gamelan by Evan Ziporyn.

Gamelan Galak Tika

Cost: $15 adults, $10 student and seniors, $5 for children under 12 and MIT & Harvard students

Thanks to: Gamelan Galak Tika
All Day

Walk Through Time: An Evolutionary Time Line

Along Massachusetts Avenue

Walk along a recreation of the evolutionary time line highlighted by 14 placards along Mass. Avenue.

Cost: Free
All Day

Nanohedron

The Museum of Science, at the Gordon Current Science and Technology Stage

Nanohedron exhibits scientific images, with a focus on depictions of nanoscale
objects. The works range from electron microscopy images of nanoscale
materials to graphical renderings of molecules. Our gallery also includes
scientific images lying outside the realm of nanoscience such as art informed
by a mathematical framework or confocal microscopy images of cells.

Nanohedron

Cost: Included with museum admission

Thanks to: Peter Kutchukian and the Museum of Science
All Day

Professor Blue

MIT, TSMC Lobby at the Stata Center , 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Experience Professor Blue video podcasts on 50 screens all at once! Professor Blue is a series of short and entertaining videos that address the issues of water and the environment. The videos motivate children to pursue science in their studies, and distill science to the general population, making us better informed about how science impacts our daily lives. There will be a live event every day at 12:30.

Professor Blue

Cost: Free

Thanks to: Professor Blue
Television & Radio
12:00pm

e2: Harvesting the Wind

WGBH 44

The Minnesota state government plays a key role in wind policy, begging the question: will the rest of the US follow Minnesota's lead.

e2

Thanks to: WGBH
12:30pm

e2: Paving the Way

WGBH 44

General Motors unveils the Vold, a super-hybrid vehicle and the fuel cell-powered Sequel; and technology firm Fiberforge shows off the latest in ultra-lighweight materials for car manufacturing.

e2

Thanks to: WGBH
1:00pm

e2: Growing Energy

WGBH 44

Looking at policies, infrastructure, manufacturing and consumer acceptance as keys to longevity, this program examines what we can learn from Brazil's extraordinary success with ethanol.

e2

Thanks to: WGBH
1:30pm

e2: State of Resolve

WGBH 44

The laws that California passed to regulate greenhouse gas emissions perpetuate the state's reputation for environmental leadership, driving it to become a global leader in clean-air technologies.

e2

Thanks to: WGBH
3:00pm

Nova: Car of the Future

WGBH 44

NPR Car Talk brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi take a light-hearted but knowledgeable look at the serious issue of what's to come for our transportation.

Nova

Thanks to: WGBH
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Science at Work

WCAI 90.1, 91.1, 94.3 Cape and the Islands

This series brings listeners into the laboratories and minds of the Woods Hole scientific community.

Science at Work

Thanks to: WGBH

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