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My sister and I had some difficulty getting into the MoMa because the street was closed so the Pope could come down one of the adjacent roads. Luckily, my sister showed me how to get past the police barricade (you wait until their dealing with someone else and walk past them). Of course, a friend who we were meeting at the MoMa made it there another way, she got off at the subway stop that opened onto the closed road. : )

When we got out of the exhibit, it just happened to be time for the Pope to travel past, so we hung out and I tried to snap a photo. This is the best I could do:

Rare Pope sighting

I think this is supposed to be like seeing a rock star for some people, or like seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson for me. Once Mr. Pope had passed on by, I noticed a bit of irony in the address we were standing at to see him:

I’m going to hell

: )

I was in New York recently to see this fascinating exhibit before it moved on, and I was not let down. Science, knowledge, and technological progress are cultural tools available to us all, and they grow exponentially. The more science we know, the more doors to knowledge are open to us. The more technology we innovate, the more ways we can recombine it into solutions adapted to every new problem that emerges.

This Wall of Photovoltaic Leaves harnesess sun energy with the leave surfaces and wind energy as the leaves flutter

View the entire flickr set here.

Even if you can’t check out the exhibit in person consider buying the book, which includes just about all of the exhibits and then some, with great discussion of each piece. Or you can check out the online exhibition, which is a delightful presentation in and of itself.

Note: The Victimless Leather display from the exhibit featured a tiny leather jacket grown from mouse stem cells. Unfortunately it had to be euthanized for growing to big for its display. Fascinating.