California Academy of Science | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor... 00:00:46 1 Governance 00:01:44 1.1 Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability (IBSS) 00:02:51 2 Public education 00:04:51 3 Research 00:06:00 4 History 00:06:09 4.1 Early years 00:09:09 4.2 Golden Gate Park site 00:11:53 5 Earthquake damage and new building 00:13:16 6 Environmental design of new building 00:15:27 6.1 Green roof 00:16:37 7 Gallery 00:16:46 8 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8904606232694748 Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-B "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research. It is California's oldest museum. Completely rebuilt in 2008, the building covers 400,000 square feet (37,000 square metres). The primary building in Golden Gate Park reopened on September 27, 2008.