Dance Dance DNA Revolution

Dance Dance DNA Revolution
Originally uploaded by mathowie.

A tip of the hat to Matt Haughey, for bringing this section of the Scripps Aquarium to our attention:

At the scripps aquarium near San Diego, they devote half the space to teaching kids about science. In a wing devoted to explaining gene expression they had some stuff about DNA and the coolest thing was this video game that taught you about building blocks of life, then proceeded to a real DDR game where you have to step to the DNA parts being shown on screen.

The best part was when one of the 20 amino acids were built, it would say the name. So you'd see A T T G C and so on... and then it would shout "Cysteine!"

This desperately needs to be being sold by someone somewhere. Whether it's the aquarium or Sony themselves, this seems like a great way to remind everyone how fun science is.

Because science is INCREDIBLY fun. Otherwise, all us scientists would run off and become supermodels or rock stars or something.

(via BoingBoing)