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Well, how about the ultimate use of eggs: hatching
them!!!

In 1983, I created the "BioCorner" Embryology Exhibit
for Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science, where chicks, and
occasionally ducklings, were hatched before the
public's eyes each weekend. You can learn more about
this exhibit at:

<
http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/biocorner/historybiocorner.html
>

gaw

--- "Daniels, Alissa"
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:04:48 -0500 
From: "Daniels, Alissa"
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Subject: naked eggs 
To: [log in to unmask]

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of
> Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums
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> 
> hey all.
> 
> I'm sure many of you have made "naked eggs" for some
> program. or just for fun, because we're weird
> science people and like doing things like that. 
> 
>  Obviously, the making of the egg is a multi-day
> process that won't work for your basic "drop in"
> type museum program, and the same goes for messing
> around with your eggs, because whatever you put them
> in, they need to sit for several hours at least. So
> I'm looking for ways you've used your eggs with your
> musuem public in your basic quick visitor
> experience. 
> 
> (I'd also still love to hear from you about my prior
> posting of your "3 favorite floor kits you save when
> your museum is burning down.")
> 
> AD
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager
> Boston Children's Museum
> 617-426-6500 x342
> www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one
> that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I
> found it!) but "That's funny..."   --Isaac Asimov

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
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NEWS - Astronomy, Space, Science:
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Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >


 
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