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It's exactly what it sounds like. Celebrate our 150th birthday at the Big Block Party! Enjoy free admission to the Museum all day. Donations are appreciated as part of our Giving Day! Our birthday wish is for 150 friends like you to help us raise $50,000 on Giving Day, October 19. You can donate online here, and there will also be opportunities to donate in person at the Block Party. Join us on the South steps—near the fountain—for a proclamation from Mayor Todd Gloria at 9:30 AM to kick off the Block Party. Get the deal of a century and enjoy 50% off membership, onsite only. The littles can play interactive games and activities in our new Nature Trail with some community partners from San Diego Canyonlands, Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation, Earth Discovery Institute, and more. Get a first look at our new 8,000-square-foot Paleontology Center and the new collections exhibition being built in the basement. Walk through 150 years of our history in our Library and check out historical photographs, specimens, and more. Meet and learn from our scientists. See our newest film, T. REX, for just $5 per person. Snack on food from our new cafe vendor, The Craft Taco, and explore our new retail store partner, Gold Leaf. Pop up to our rooftop bar for a cocktail and the best views of Balboa Park. Visit with our Balboa Park neighbors from the San Diego Railroad Museum, Balboa Art Conservation Center, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Forever Balboa Park, House of Pacific Relations International Cottages, the San Diego History Center, and the Fleet Science Center. And more from the Anza-Borrego Foundation, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Botanical Community Development Initiatives, Coronado Public Library, Des Border, Endangered Concepts, Fauna del Noroeste, Friends of Famosa Slough, Friends of Rose Creek, I Love A Clean San Diego, Lakeside's River Park Conservancy, National Marine Mammal Foundation, Queer Science Society, San Diego 350, San Diego Botanic Garden, San Diego Coastkeeper, San Diego River Park Foundation, San Diego Tracking Team, Terra Peninsular, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Turgid Succulents, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Related links: San Diego Natural History Museum: website | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook

Earlier this year, Isaacman became the first private citizen to conduct a spacewalk. But his longstanding ties with Elon Musk's company SpaceX raise possible conflicts of interest.

Dr. Marty Makary, President Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, faced questions from the Senate HELP Committee on the abortion pill, vaccines, FDA firings and chemicals in food.

From the organizers: CULTIVATE deepens Malashock Dance’s relationships with San Diego Choreographers through new commissions and remounted works that highlight the artistic breadth of our community. PROGRAM You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí The stage premiere You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí, a multi-iteration dance project that integrates a wide range of oral histories from San Diego residents and visitors to bring diverse personal narratives to life. SEED Suite The inaugural SEED Suite, a new initiative that invites choreographers from the prior season’s SEED Concert (formerly known as Everyday Dances) to remount their work. This year’s SEED Suite will include work by Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen, Khamla Somphanh, and Viviana Alcazar. Companions A remount of the 2024 San Diego Museum of Art commissioned piece Companions, by Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan and Founding Director John Malashock, who each created a dance responding to the painting A Child’s Companion by Arshile Gorky. The Dulling Effect The world premiere of Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan’s The Dulling Effect. Inspired by a 1934 Harvard study on how radio has a dulling effect on the higher mental processes of the listener, Christopher’s curiosity on how that dulling effect may have increased over the last 90 years of technology, and his concern that current political and legislative initiatives in the US are attempting to homogenize citizens, rather than celebrating their unique individual beauty. PERFORMANCES November 2 at 7:30 – 9:00 pm November 3 at 2:30 – 4:00 pm* LOCATION Saville Theater at City College (14th and C Street San Diego, CA) Free Parking Available! TICKETS: Preferred Reserved Seating $50 Reserved Seating $45 Student/Artist $30 Children under 12 $10

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

The U.S. believes hackers affiliated with China's government are infiltrating telecoms and stealing users' data. The FBI has urged people to use end-to-end encryption to keep their info safe.

Elon Musk says he'll cut back his work with the federal government to one to two days per week. He said demand for Teslas is still strong, despite protests and plunging sales.

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on vaccine policy for the first time since the change in administrations.

California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.