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Sneak Peek at Molecules to the Max

At Evolvems we love teaching kids about evolution and paleontology, but there are others out there who are creating cool content to teach kids about all sorts of cool science.

I had the pleasure this Memorial Day weekend of seeing a special premier veiwing of the new kids IMAX science movie called Molecularium: Molecules to the Max at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I was invited by Kurt Przybilla who is a toy inventor and writer on the film, and who I met at the Toy Fair in February.

It was a crazy ride into the heart of matter, zooming in and out to show us common objects and their inner atomic and molecular structures as only computer animation (and some cute characters) can show us.   I saw this in regular 2D on a small movie screen, but can’t wait to see it in its full glory as an IMAX 3D production.

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    Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life


    New Microbe Samples

    NASA scientists have discovered an amazing new life-form that redefines what we consider to be the basic building blocks of life.

    A microbe found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California seems able to live in a solution of arsenic which is poisonous to most other life.  Phosphorus, which used to be considered one of the essential building blocks of life, is replaced by arsenic in this organism.

    Dr. Sasselov, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of an institute on the origins of life there said, “I would like to know, when designing experiments and instruments to look for life [on other planets], whether I should be looking for same stuff as here on Earth, or whether there are other options.  Are we going to look for same molecules we love and know here, or broaden our search?”

    Seems like we have aliens right here on earth!!!

    Original NYTimes article…

    Dec 10