(By Angela Zimmerman) Among the myriad joys of living in San Francisco is having access to places like the Exploratorium. If you’ve never been there, as this writer had not until descending on the place with hundreds of others for the After Dark event last week, you are missing out on the best interactive playland in the Bay Area... and should plan a visit posthaste. more ›

At 10am this morning officials from the Exploratorium held a groundbreaking ceremony for the $300 million project which will transform Piers 15 and 17 on the northern waterfront into a state-of-the-art, 9-acre science playground for the City's favorite hands-on, educational museum. more ›

Get your science fair-geek on this Saturday afternoon at March Madness for the Mind, a showcase of student innovation in San Francisco that's not to be missed. more ›

Recently approved to start building a $175 million waterfront museum on Piers 15 and 17, the Exploratorium (the city's finest hands-on museum) just received a whopping $90 million donation care of two anonymous donors. "The Exploratorium has outgrown its current home at the Palace of Fine Arts," reports SF Business Times. "The planned new museum would be three times larger." Now all they need is an additional $40 million, and they're in business. more ›

As if you needed any more proof that an eclipse is a demonic portent of doom, the Exploratorium has announced that it will be sending an expedition to someplace near Mongolia to videotape the eclipse on July 31 ... . Not, like, into the sky of Second Life -- just onto a big virtual projection screen, which your avatars can then gather around and stare at until distracted by a crowd of furries humping a leprechaun. more ›