San Francisco’s Exploratorium with Kids : Hands On Science

San Francisco's Exploratorium with Kids : Hands On Science

On every trip we take to a new city we make sure we include a number of hands on learning experiences for the kids. Sometimes this happens naturally through our day to day encounters, on other days we structure our day around a visit to a site that specialises in such activities. When we headed …

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Portable Life Museum : How To Be An Explorer of the World

Portable Life Museum : How To Be An Explorer of the World

On Saturday I flew to Melbourne for an event and brought along my latest book find to occupy the minutes while I was in transit. Just as the plane levelled out, the man sitting next to me interrupted my reading to ask the title of the book. I showed him the cover and he typed …

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A Visit to the La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum

A Sticky Trek Back in Time : A Visit to the La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum

For tens of thousands of years natural asphalt has been seeping up from the ground in what is now urban Los Angeles. Around Hancock Park the seepage has been enough to create areas large enough to trap animals who have been unable to escape and have perished, sinking into the asphalt which has soaked into their …

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