This program is one of two autorun stories to model how scientific data can be used to build explanations of events. It is the true story of the spill of a container of Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean. The program sets up the story of the shoe spill and encourages initial predictions. Next, the concept of wind-driven ocean currents is explored. Using the wind-driven ocean currents dataset on the SOS, visitors then refine their predictions. Finally, the actual locations where the shoes were found is revealed.
The second story is The Mystery of the Penguin Feather, a fictional, but not impossible, story of a penguin feather found by a beach clean up crew in San Francisco.
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