We started out on a bike ride around the park this morning, but ran into a closed bike trail and an oncoming storm, so we turned around and headed back to our site. Next on the agenda for the day was visiting the St. Louis Science Center. The young man at the Babler Visitor Center gave it a glowing recommendation. It did turn out to be a very stimulating place, right from our first glimpse of the animatronic dino.
We watched a science demo on Center Stage, titled "Science Goes Splat!" It was a demonstration of the effects of gravity on various items dropped from a window 60 feet above by Lauren. It definitely made an impression on the audience--mainly kids. One point the presenter made is that gravity is not a "fact," but a scientific "theory."
We ended up staying almost until the place closed, and of course we didn't see half of it.
The Science Center admission is free, but parking costs $10, and there are several films, shows, and activities which definitely cost money. We didn't do any of them, but it would be easy to spend $30 or more.
On the way home we stopped at Trader Joe's. Gotta have our TJ fix when we can get it.
We watched a Great Performances program we had recorded called Paul Simon’s Graceland Journey: Under African Skies. It was quite thought provoking, raising issues of creativity and change and exploitation and apartheid, all the while showing the genesis of a work of art--an album. That's an endangered species these days, when digital songs have independent existence rather than being embedded in an artistic context. Bottom line is that I love Paul Simon's voice.
0 comments:
Post a Comment