World's 'Greenest' Museum Opens In San Francisco
Sep 25th, 2008 · A building heralded as the greenest museum in the world opens Saturday in San Francisco. The California Academy of Sciences fits in with the natural world in both form and function.
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Pierre Sheds Wet Suit for Real Penguin Suit
Apr 25th, 2008 · After beginning to go bald in 2006, a penguin in San Francisco was fitted with a wet suit — and started to re-grow his feathers. Pam Schaller, a senior aquatic biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, shares Pierre's remarkable story.
Attracting Women to the Sciences ****
May 17th, 2005 · The California Academy of Sciences has held a seminar to attract young women into the male-dominated world of science. In January, Harvard University's President Lawrence Summers made controversial comments suggesting that innate gender differences prevent women from getting top science and engineering positions. Member station KQED's Rachel Martin reports.
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