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 A Barbie doll on the Van de Graaf always brings a roar at the Sciencenter!
:-D Shannon

Carey Tisdal wrote:

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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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> Subject: Re: Laugh - the funniest elements of the science center
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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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