Chicago Road trip

Road Trip to Chicago this past week. First stop, MSI--Museum of Science & Industry (http://www.msi.org/). Science Storms is the newest permanent exhibit to be unveiled. Fascinating! It covers avalanches, tsunamis, light waves, gravity, physics, tornadoes, hurricanes, rainbows, storms of all sorts.

I loved the listening stations around the hall. These are specific spots where audio is piped up from the floor to accompany a video explanation. Audio is always a challenge for exhibit developers in this kind of space and closed captioning doesn't always deliver the info in the most compelling way. Why is it easier and more engaging to hear the info than to read it?