New Exhibits at Science World 

Featured Exhibitions

Arithmetricks Perfectly Perplexing Puzzles
Until March 23, 2003

Step right up to the greatest math show on Earth! Science World has traveled 2to the far corners of the globe to bring you the most baffling and perplexing math puzzles ever devised.  Ringmaster Fineas Polygon is your guide as you explore the dozen tabletop puzzles and large maze in the turn-of-the-century circus setting. Each puzzle has three levels of difficulty, to give puzzle lovers of all ages a challenge. The Tower of Annoy, Magic Squares, Five Easy Pieces and other puzzling exhibits will test your mathematical abilities as well as your patience and resolve. An additional six puzzles are featured in the 'Pandora's Palace of Perplexing Paradoxes,' a sideshow of puzzles created for even more mental challenges.

Youngsters will enjoy 'Arithmetots,' a special area designed just for them.

Communication
Opens April 5, 2003

Can you remember life before the internet and cellular phones? New inventions for communication have changed our everyday lives in ways our great-grandparents couldn't have imagined. Communication lets you discover the principles of communication and try out revolutionary developments in communication technology. Explore the similarities a and confusing differences between languages. Use a cable of fiber optics to watch a video. Adjust a satellite dish to send and catch your own image, and control a computer with the loudness of your voice. These and other hands-on experiences will help you better understand today's information society.  This fascinating exhibit comes to Science World from Heureka, a science centre in Helsinki, Finland.

Featured Performers
Vancouver Moving Theatre
Hot Music/Cool Tales: The Art & Science of Sound
March 12 to April 13, 2003

This all-ages, high-energy live show is a dramatic tribute to the phenomenon of sound and its impact on our lives. Join performers Professor Cool and Willy B. Hot on a whirlwind tour of the audible world, spinning together storytelling and science demonstrations with physical theatre, live music, audience participation, techno-tools and old fashioned foley sound effects. (In the Weyerhaeuser Science Theatre, Level 2).

Alcan OMNIMAX(r) Theatre

The Alcan OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World features one of the largest dome screens in the world. Wrap yourself in a breathtaking educational science and nature experience. The screen is five storeys high, 27 metres in diameter and boasts a sensational wraparound digital sound system to put you right in the picture.

Bears

From polar bears on the arctic tundra to grizzlies in Alaska, Bears explores the mythical past and fragile future of some of the most inspiring and misunderstood predators on the planet. The fourth and most anticipated giant-screen film produced by the National Wildlife Federation, Bears presents fresh footage of these enterprising omnivores in the full glory of their natural habitat. Learn about the challenges facing each of these species - and why protecting them benefits wildlife and people everywhere.  

Everest

The top of Mt. Everest calls only to the most daring and determined individuals who are convinced that dreams can be realized through incredible effort and risk. Everest takes you on an inspirational and spell-binding ascent with an international team of climbers who found hope, beauty and triumph in the wake of tragedy. The film tells the dramatic true story of the expedition's journey to the summit, just days after the infamous 1996 tragedy in which eight climbers lost their lives in a deadly storm. Until March 14, 2003

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure recounts the extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914-16 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.  While never accomplishing its goal of the first crossing of the Antarctic continent, this expedition has become a larger-than-life testament to heroism and human endurance, with the 28 man crew struggling for two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, the Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed. 

Amazing Journeys

Experience some of nature's most incredible spectacles as millions of creatures undertake extraordinary journeys in their quest for survival.  Join the sweeping spectacle of hundreds of migrating zebras in the vast, wildlife-filled plains of East Africa.  Witness the mysterious migration of more than a 100 million red crabs on tiny Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.  Encounter the affectionate curiosity of majestic gray whales in the beautiful lagoons of Mexico's Baja California. Enter a golden blizzard as tens of millions of monarch butterflies fill the sky in the hidden highlands of Mexico.  Take flight alongside migratory birds navigating by the sun,stars, and instinct.  Travel back in time among exotic tribes of Africa to explore the roots of human migration.  Amazing Journeys is a powerful chronicle of six of nature's most incredible life-and-death dramas.  From March 15 to May 8, 2003

Ultimate X

All the excitement and explosive drama of action sports is displayed on the exhilarating giant screen in "ESPN's Ultimate X - The Movie," a look into ESPN's massively popular Summer X Games.  "Ultimate X" chronicles all the breathtaking highlights and dramatic stories behind the 2001 X Games in Philadelphia as it showcases the eye-popping skateboarding, biking, moto X, and street luge competitions on the giant screen for the first time.  In addition, the film presents the incredible stories of the athletes themselves, as they compete in the year's most important event in their sport.  From March 15 to May 8, 2003


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