Abram, Owen, and I went to the North Museum yesterday afternoon. We skipped the live animals and the cabinet museum (of preserved animals) and looked at a box of coral specimens in the children's room. We explored the Blood Suckers exhibit with real mosquito larvae and leeches, a tick that swells up when you sit next to it, a CO2 detector that measures you breath to explain how skeeters find you, slides of bed bugs and fleas, and a preserved vampire bat.
We revisited a cool exhibit of physics photographs that I mentioned a while back. Owen actually looked at them this time.
The photographs are from the American Association of Physics Teachers' High School Physics Photo Contest and show a variety of natural and contrived physical phenomena. Each photo is accompanied by a short description of the physics you are observing.
Do check out the website for this and past years' photos of note.
Here is one of my favorites, Brilliant Balloon
from John Wanberg in Colorado. This photo won an honorable mention in 2007.
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