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'Ultimate Dinosaurs' at the Science Museum of Minnesota

Posted by Matthew Deery on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 12:00 AM By Matthew Deery / April 16, 2014 Comment

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My mother, wife and I had been hankering to get to the Science Museum lately to check out the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit there -- a few weeks back we made a trek to St. Paul and checked out the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit as well as the Omnitheater showing Dinosaurs Alive!. I enjoyed pieces of what the exhibit had to display, but if I had to give an overall impression, I'd say Ultimate Dinosaurs was a bit underwhelming. First, we sat through the Omnitheater showing. From an informational standpoint, and the experience of seeing...

Science Museum Hosts 'Fermentational Informational: The Science of Beer'
Posted by Alicia Waters on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM By Alicia Waters / April 1, 2014 Comment

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What makes beer so awesome? Is it the hops? The amount of yeast? Or is it something else? If you’ve ever wondered what’s actually going on inside that cold glass of frothy relaxation, check out The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Fermentational Informational: The Science of Beer, coming up on Thursday, April 3. Get to the museum at 6:00 pm for a quirky, interesting evening, and a new way to wind down your week. As it is part of the museum’s Social Science event series, the...

'Girls and Science' Free Event at the Science Museum of Minnesota

Posted by Matthew Deery on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 12:00 AM By Matthew Deery / October 9, 2013 Comment

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The Science Museum of Minnesota is hosting an event this Saturday, from 10 am to 4 pm, with young girls as the VIP guests -- this Girls and Science promotion is meant to show off the fields of science and technology to the young female mind and show case their importance to society. The museum, along with Fox 9, have invited many bright and accomplished women in the fields of science and technology to illuminate their professions to the potential future minds in their field. This is a great opportunity to get young girls interested, so bring your...

It’s Always Sunny in the Twin Cities
Posted by Eva Meierhoff on Friday, June 21, 2013 at 12:00 AM By Eva Meierhoff / June 21, 2013 Comment
[caption id="attachment_268" align="aligncenter" width="624"]Photo Credit: Nattapol Pornsalnutwat Photo Credit: Nattapol Pornsalnutwat[/caption] You know the situation: You wake up in the morning on a beautiful, sunshiny day with big plans to hit the beach with a cooler and friends or take the kids to the park. You pull back the drapes, expecting to be greeted by the bright, warm sun. Instead, you are faced with grey skies laced with dark, heavy clouds and pouring rain. Shoot. This must mean you’ll be spending your day in bed. Or maybe you’ll have to fight the kids to keep them inside, hoping to entertain them with broken toys and movies they’ve...