Texas Teach
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Went with the family to the Perot Museum of Science and Nature in Dallas today. As I was guiding a 4 and a 6 year old, I didn't manage to look closely at everything, but I was very pleased overall. The Big Bang/Universe section was very nicely done, as was the dinosaur area. There was a very nice section on evolutionary adaptations. There were a couple of small displays on human evolution: one a nice column of hominid skull photos (I made my wife the anthropologist i.d. each fossil), the other was the featured the radial tree of life and discussed of all living things are related. Given the wide diversity of topics covered, I thought it was an adequate presentation; certainly unapologetically pro-science. If nothing else it was wonderful to see a science museum so busy here in Texas.
The only down moment was a woman who apologized for being in the way as she was photographing a display on Hubble, saying "Sorry, my family loves astrology". I walked by with a slight facial tic, but decided to just move on.
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"Creationists think everything Genesis says is true. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer." --J. Carr
"I suspect that the English grammar books where you live are outdated" --G. Gaulin
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