Paris Science Center March 24, 2010
Posted by Chris in : Paris , trackbackWe visited the Science Center in Paris today, also known as Cité des Sciences et Industrie. At 8 Euros a person, it was very worth it, we spent probably 5 hours wandering around, playing with the interactive exhibits and seeing all of the fun things they had there!
We started out looking at their room about genetics, learning about different things relating to genetics and things that we can do with genetics. Some of the purposes talked about included researching effects of diseases and distilling proteins to help treat different maladies such as diabetes.
After learning more than we ever wanted to know about genetics, we headed into an area full of photos, meteor samples, and more! In this room, we found sculptures created from acrylic with lights, a model of a lander, and a series of videos talking about space and exploring it.
While we enjoyed the visuals here, most of the things had no English so we didn’t spend as much time here before moving onto the section about dirt! Well, about earth in general, techniques for building with it, how grain mechanics work, and other interesting information. There were samples of many different kinds of dirt from all over the world along with explanations about what gave them their distinctive colors.
We got to play several games and watch short videos demonstrating grains of sand and other earthy materials behaving as liquid, gas, and solid at different times!
After the earth section, we moved onto mathematics. While it may seem dry, there were plenty of fun exhibits there for us to play with or look at, including a 3D version of tic-tac-toe with 4x4x4 sides. Our game was great fun and complicated enough to last more than 3 minutes.
One of my favorite parts of the mathematics exhibit was a fountain that had a randomness factor built into it, making it so complex that no computer can predict the positions after 2 minutes!
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