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Archive for “Franklin Institute” news
This Is “Your Brain” on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
By Mike Bertha 7/19/2012
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Thanks to a renovation project in 2004, The Franklin Institute's "The Giant Heart" includes a 5,000 square-foot exhibit with interactive devices and a massive EKG wave. Now, though, the Institute is pulling a Scarecrow and looking to get itself a brain. Construction of a new exhibit dedicated to the human brain began back in April. The 8,500-square-foot exposition called "Your Brain" should be ready by the summer of 2014. It'll basically have a jungle gym of electrical and chemical brain signals, so we're going to go ahead and have our birthday party there. If you're invited, please be advised that
President Obama to Visit the Franklin Institute
By Mike Bertha 6/12/2012
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President Obama is set to fly into PHL this afternoon just in time to help mess up your evening commute. Air Force One is set to land at 5:25 p.m. so that President Obama can make his rounds and raise some funds. He'll make an appearance at a public event for 500 people at the Franklin Institute at 7:50 p.m. before attending two private functions and flying back to Washington at 10:30. President Obama has raised $3.6 million to Mitt Romney's $1.9 million in Pennsylvania during this election cycle. [Philly.com]
Dead Sea Scrolls Opens at the Franklin Institute on Saturday
By Mike Bertha 5/10/2012
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On Saturday, "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times" exhibit will open at the Franklin Institute. The exhibit features some of the oldest examples of Jewish scripture. The scripture comes from 972 parchments and papyrus fragments found in 1947 by a Palestinian goatherder in caves near the Dead Sea. They survived in the desert for more than 2,000 years and will now be on display in Philly seven days a week through mid-October. [Inquirer]
Mitt Romney at Franklin Institute to Talk Taxes, Probably Not to See the Giant Heart
By Mike Bertha 4/16/2012
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Romney's in Philly. The presidential hopeful will be at the Franklin Institute today. Unfortunately for him, it'll be for the Tri-State Tax Summit, so we're not sure he'll have time to catch a showing of Flying Monsters in IMAX. [Fox 29]
Everyone Hates the Penguins. If you managed to do something other than watch Game 3 between the Flyers and the Pens yesterday, then you messed up. Here's why the whole city hates Pittsburgh a little more than usual today. Oh, and the Flyers won 8-4, so get your brooms ready for Wednesday's Game 4 in South Philly.
HughE Dillon One-Shot: Sela Ward
CSI: The Experience opens at Franklin Institute
By HughE Dillon 10/03/2011
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CSI: NY actress Sela Ward visited the Franklin Institute on Sunday (here with CBS 3's Anne-Marie Green) to officially open a new exhibit called "CSI: The Experience." She told me that it was the first time she saw the traveling show, and that she really liked it. Later she did a Q&A with guests of the museum admitting that she was very squeamish when she first began filming the series and would often feel a little nauseous on set. Nowadays when she reads about a real-life murder she pieces the clues together to try to solve it. I checked out
Phillies Lose Lead, Game Two
Plus: Eagles drop another
By Scoop 10/03/2011
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Cardinals Win Game Two To Even Series at 1-1. Last night the Phillies blew an early 4-0 lead as St. Louis came from behind to win 5-4 and knot the series up at one game a piece. The Scoop is well aware that his blood pressure this October isn't going to be at a consistent or healthy level. [The 700 Level]
Eagles Lose to San Francisco. The bad news is that the Eagles are 1-3, just blew another fourth quarter lead and fell further into the basement of the NFC East. The good news is that the Scoop just saved a
Machines, Murder, and Mamet
Murder and Mamet
By Aaron Mettey 2/04/2011
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[caption id="attachment_11504" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Leonardo Da Vinci’s Workshop at the Franklin Institute"][/caption]Entering the cavernous space of the Franklin Institute’s Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop, I was not sure what awaited me. Was it going to be some biographical exploration of the man, through sets and slideshows? Or perhaps some museum-ized treatise on a novel’s fictionalized conspiracies? No. This exhibit is a marvelous convergence of art and science. It’s an impactful study of the genius as an artistic inventor. This exhibit, which has only been seen in Milan and New York City, was created by Leonardo3, a Milanese research center devoted to the physical and virtual reconstruction of da Vinci designs and ideas. What sets their work apart is the focus on creating items never before seen by the
