Without science, no one would know the difference between zinc and copper or test tubes and glass finger puppets. Explore an invaluable discipline with today’s Groupon: for $18, you get admission for up to four to The Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley (up to a $48 value).
University of California, Berkeley’s public science center, The Lawrence Hall of Science, inspires patrons to test hypotheses and explore natural phenomena with an array of hands-on exhibits. In the knowledge emporium’s Imaginate interactive exhibit, opening February 4, budding technology savants express creative impulses by plying cutting-edge tools and producing film shorts replete with stop-motion animation. Guests can even compose tunes on sound panels, rather than doing it the old-school way—by dipping a guitar neck in paint and scrawling music across a drum skin. Interactive floor projections can host high-octane games of air hockey or dissolve into customizable fireworks displays, whereas alternate exhibits showcase different earthly wonders. In Animal Investigations, visitors view gamboling creatures such as chinchillas and iguanas alongside dinosaur artifacts. Earth and Space, alternatively, simulates stargazing with a planetarium and draws connections between satellite data and large-scale phenomena such as weather and ocean currents.
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The Groupon Guide to: The Ultimate Snowman
Any fool with a pair of mittens can construct a passable facsimile of a human out of powdered frozen vapor, but it takes a true Picasso of precipitation to create a frosty masterwork. Follow these tips to create a snow sculpture that will endure forever, unless the temperature rises even slightly:
• Stack ‘em High: While traditional snowmen are comprised of three snowy spheroids stacked in ascending size for a more stable base and welcoming maternal curves, there’s no reason to stop there. Continue adding snowballs until your snowman is a gently tapering caterpillar towering gingerly into lower orbit—then decorate its face using a remote-controlled helicopter.
• Don’t Mess with a Classic: Carrot noses were introduced in the 1600s to ridicule Guy Fawkes, a famous waster of then-precious vegetables. Keep his legacy alive today by shoving a carrot into your snowman’s face. If unavailable due to rabbit plagues or juicing fads, just steal a traffic cone from your nearest miniature village.
• Attain Anatomical Accuracy: Keep your snowman’s proportions frighteningly human by having a friend volunteer to act as an armature for you to pack snow onto. He belongs to winter now.
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