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After spending numerous meetings with Maya Lin at the Academy and seeing how she distilled the stories told by some of the most venerable figures in the field of conservation biology into a final artwork, it seemed fitting that we should give a voice to someone who took a chance to give a different perspective to science. Shaped like a giant megaphone, the “Listening Cone” unveiled September 17, 2009 on the Academy’s East Terrace is not just an art exhibit, nor is it just a memorial. It is at once a portal to planet Earth and a sounding device to the work that is currently being done to conserve its resources. Take your shoes off and step inside!

The Listening Cone is part of a multi-site memorial called “What is Missing”. To learn more about what others are doing and what you can do to prevent species and habitat loss visit a selection of the institutions and organizations that played an advisory role to the “What is Missing” project.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
National Geographic Society
Conservation International
National Resources Defense Council
World Wildlife Fund
Freedom to Roam

-Lindsay

 

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When Jonah Lehrer was in town to talk about his latest book, How We Decide, we snagged the opportunity to interview him for Science in Action. He took our Visualization Studio through a tour of the brain as we make decisions– whether in the cereal aisle or piloting a plane. Then our artists went to work, creating the brain visuals. It was a great collaboration! What do you think? Let us know.

 

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Ryan Wyatt, our new Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, files his last report from the Gordon Conference 2007 (2 min)

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Ryan Wyatt, Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, reports on the Gordon Conference on Visualization, where a wide variety of professionals gathered to examine the uses of visualization for scientific discovery and science education on this edition of Science in Action (2.5 min)

Gordon Conference 2007

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Ryan Wyatt, our new Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, explains that the term science visualization fundamentally means taking scientific data and turning it into something we can see. We welcome Ryan as a new voice to the Science in Action podcast (3.5 min)

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