Exploratorium After Dark: The Senses

This evening, we invite you to come to your senses. Experience a heady mix of presentations and activities designed to help you get in touch with the sensual world-both human and otherwise.

Find out if your eyes and nose agree on who's attractive. Discover unexpected taste receptors, and stymy your sweet tooth with a sugar-blocking tea. Take a hands-on journey through total darkness in the Tactile Dome, or immerse yourself in the hypnotic audio-visual compositions of local Super-8 filmmaker and Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Paul Clipson.

Professor Raffaello D'Andrea of the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH–IDSC) will demonstrate his invention, the Blind Juggler, a robotic device that relies on mathematics (rather than sensors) to keep a ball in play.

Plus, hedgehogs have been invited, new exhibits will be tested, special films will be screened, and more.