Experience scientific cooking techniques
Transform Mars into a habitable planet
Experience complete silence in an anechoic chamber, a room designed to absorb all sound reflections. Visit Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis (holds a Guinness World Record for the quietest place on Earth at -24.9 dB(A)) or the anechoic chamber at Microsoft's Building 87 (known for testing audio equipment). The extreme silence can be disorienting, and visitors often hear their own heartbeat and internal bodily sounds.
Cousteau’s Conshelf II: six men living for a month in a steel house on the floor of the Red Sea.
A fictional entomologist argues that insects will inherit the earth, over real macro photography that makes the case.
Carl Sagan's thirteen-part tour of the universe from 1980; "billions and billions".
John Harrison's clocks solve the problem that sank ships; Dava Sobel's short classic.
Kuhn's paradigm shifts; the book that gave the phrase to everyone.
Darwin's one long argument for natural selection, still readable.
Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.
The one we are causing, species by species; Kolbert's Pulitzer.
Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.
Build rockets, kill Kerbals, learn orbital mechanics by accident.
Nineteen masonry instruments from the 1730s, including a sundial accurate to two seconds.
Aquarium and science museum on the bay.
Grand clifftop aquarium and museum.
The world's oldest and largest spaceport.
Straddle both hemispheres at the equator monument outside Quito.
Step inside a working base like Port Lockroy or Vernadsky, post a card from the world’s southernmost post office and meet the scientists.
Space theme park in Europe’s aerospace capital: a full-size Ariane 5, a Mir station mock-up and a planetarium.
Master Fortran, a high-level programming language used for numerical and scientific computing
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