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I saw a Van der Graaf generator show at COSI last summer--I had seen them 
before, but I love to watch and laugh and so did the audience. The presenter 
was very good, too. What fun--I sat through two shows. :-)

Carey

Carey E. Tisdal
Tisdal Consulting
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> When I was the newly designated Executive Director at Impression 5 Science
> Center in Lansing MI (in the 1980's -- I must have been pretty young since 
> I am
> only 38 or 39 now), when I first walked out on the exhibit floor, there 
> was
> a  medical technology exhibit.  One of the display kiosks was on the 
> medical
> technology of the future and a featured item was called a  "tri-quarter."
> You were supposed to be able to wave this device in  front of someone and
> analyze their health status.  A mock-up of one was on  display.  We could 
> have done
> a survey, but we had many visitors who asked  us where they could get one 
> or
> where they were used.  The best we could  reply was, "Check with Captain 
> Kirk."
>
> Another museum story, art museum this time.  I was in Paris the year  the
> Pompidou Center opened, which includes a modern art museum.  As I 
> traversed a
> gallery, I stepped on some sheets of burlap irregularly arranged on  the 
> floor.
> I said, "Oh my god, I just stepped on some art!"  As it  turns out, it was
> just burlap.
>
> Bob Russell
> Learning Experience Design
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