Tag: "aquarium"

Producer's Notes: Amazing Jellies

Producer's Notes: Amazing Jellies

What are the longest animals in the world? Hint: you’ve most likely never heard of them. They glow in the dark and have many stomachs, mouths and tentacles – sometimes hundreds.

 
Producer's Notes: Cal Academy Comes To Life

Producer's Notes: Cal Academy Comes To Life

By the time I was ten years old I knew the old California Academy of Sciences building by heart. After countless birthday parties, field trips and family outings, my brother and I, along with our sugar-filled urchin gang of friends and cousins, could have led tours of "the Aquarium."

 
Reporter's Notes: Moving Day

Reporter's Notes: Moving Day

Nobody likes moving. The packing, taping, lifting, shipping… it can be major hassle. But nobody's experience compares to what's going on at the California Academy of Sciences. They're moving to their new 400,000 square-foot building in Golden Gate Park after three years in downtown San Francisco. But they've got a lot more to move than [...]

 
Should Nemo Be Found?

Should Nemo Be Found?

And live in an aquarium in my living room? A fish tank calms my nerves. A fish tank connects me to the sea. A fish tank brings peacefulness into my hectic world. These are the words of marine aquarium owners. The lure of a tropical fish tank is clear: they are mesmerizing and colorful, they [...]

 
Producer's Notes - MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere

Producer's Notes - MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere

Do-it-yourself tabletop biosphere..Last season, QUEST TV went on a field trip to the Maker Faire to see some of the wacky do-it-yourself things coming out of people’s garage work shops. This season, we took Quest Radio Editor Andrea Kissack out to the Make Magazine Test Lab to tinker and experiment with some of our favorite [...]