Curiosity Machine: Build a Balanced Dinosaur
- 1. Hands-on Science and Engineering at Pasadena Public Library August 25, 2016
- 3. It’s OK to try and fail. Sometimes great scientific discoveries, theories, or inventions happen when you don’t get the results you were expecting. Examples: *Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias (The Big Bang Theory) *Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) *Harry Coover (Super Glue) *Roy Plunkett (Teflon) *Charles Robert Richet (Allergies)
- 5. Build a balanced dinosaur!
- 7. Contrary to popular belief and cultural images of T-Rex, T-Rex did NOT stand like this: http://www.getcoloringpages.com/coloring/27 996 http://dinotoyblog.com/2009/10/23/tyrannosaurus- rex-papo/
- 8. He probably walked something more like this: Created by Kent Stevens for The Carnegie Museum of Natural History: http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~ kent/paleontology/museum s/CMNH/index.html
- 9. And Apatosaurus never dragged its tail around like this: http://www.copyrightexpired.com/earlyimage/prehis toriclifebeforekt/n2m_brontosaurus.html Pearson Scott Foresman: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinosaur_ -_brontosaurus_(PSF).png
- 10. In fact, now that we know more about why dinosaurs needed such long, strong tails, museums around the world had to change their skeleton displays from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Brontosaurus
- 13. Dr. Phil Manning, a paleontologist who digs up dinosaur mummies and writes books about them! https://blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2014/10/ 09/ask-a-geologist-live/
- 14. Dr. Kent Stevens, who helps paleontologists understand dinosaur movement by creating computer animations for them. He studies dinosaur skeletons and determines how they would have shifted their weight and used their limbs to walk, stand or sit. http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~kent/paleo ntology/museums/index.html
- 15. Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC), the ancient Greek scientist who introduced the world to the concept of center of mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_mass http://www.keyword-suggestions.com/c3lyYWN1c2UgYXJjaGltZWRlcw/ https://www.sciencetopia.net/sites/default/files/twofig.png
- 16. Created by Kent Stevens for The Carnegie Museum of Natural History: http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~kent/paleontology/museums/CMNH/index.html
- 17. Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Tim Haines, published by Dorling Kindersley, 2000
- 18. (Eyewitness) Dinosaur by David Lambert, Published by Dorling Kindersley 2010 Tendons (bind muscle to bone) Ligaments (bind bone to bone)
- 19. Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Tim Haines, published by Dorling Kindersley, 2000
- 20. Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Tim Haines, published by Dorling Kindersley, 2000
- 21. WD Matthew, 1905. This was the image that people consulted for decades! http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/11/drawing-tyrannosaurus-youre- probably-doing-it-wrong/
- 25. Balance It by Howard E. Smith, Jr. with photographs by George Ancona. Published in 1982 by Four Winds Press.