{"id":1223,"date":"2011-04-08T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:27:47","slug":"who-are-you-explore-your-world-with-this-cloudeight-site-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/who-are-you-explore-your-world-with-this-cloudeight-site-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are you? Explore your world with this Cloudeight site pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

While searching for this week’s site of the week (we really do spend \t\t\ttime looking for something interesting for this column) we stumbled \t\t\tupon Exploratorium. With over 18,000 pages, online experiments, \t\t\tphotos, interesting science articles for folks of all ages – let’s \t\t\tjust say we stayed on the site longer than we wanted. We spent hours here and learned a lot. Unfortunately for you – good writing wasn’t one of the things we learned. Maybe next time<\/span><\/p>\n

This site is a wealth of \t\t\tinteresting information, images and “hands-on” experiments. If you \t\t\thave any curiosity at all about the world around you – or about \t\t\tscience and why things are like they are –then you should bookmark this site because you will return to it again and again. Or do it all at once and plan on \t\t\tspending the next 142 days exploring it. We figure that’s how long \t\t\tit will take you to explore “Exploratorium” at 128 pages each day. \t\t\tThat gives you a goal of about 15 pages per hour, 8 hours a day. At \t\t\tthat rate, you’ll have the entire site explored in a little over \t\t\tfour months. By the time you’re done, it will be Halloween and you’ll \t\t\thave time to pass out candy and do some Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we’re tittering again, aren’t we. Doggone it, there we go \t\t\tagain, Eightball! It’s time to bring in the folks who created \t\t\tExploratorium and let them tell you, in their own succinct way, what \t\t\tExploratorium is all about. Did we end that sentence in a \t\t\tpreposition? Too bad! Call Eightball’s English teacher and complain! \t\t\tShoot! We’re rambling again. Here they are, live and in person, the \t\t\tcreators of Exploratorium:<\/p>\n

“Online since 1993, the Exploratorium \t\twas one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide \t\tWeb. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages \t\texploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million \t\tvisitors a year. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites \t\tin the world. Learn more about our Web site.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Unless you’d like us to ramble on more \t\tabout Exploratorium, we suggest \t\tthat you visit the site<\/a> right now to see for yourself. It’s the best \t\tway, trust us. You really don’t want to read anymore inane prattling by \t\tus and you really need to get \t\tstarted on exploring our Site of the Week “Exploratorium”<\/a>. There’s \t\tnever a better place to start \t\tthan the beginning<\/a> and never a better time to start than now. Let us know how you liked those 18,000+ pages. Email \t\tEightball.<\/p>\n

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While searching for this week’s site of the week (we really do spend time looking for something interesting for this column) we stumbled upon Exploratorium. With over 18,000 pages, online experiments, photos, interesting science articles for folks of all ages – let’s just say we stayed on the site longer than we wanted. We spent hours here and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[577,186,824,698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}