Science is all around us in our daily lives. Specifically, chemistry! When your bread toasts, when your shampoo foams, when the playground slide rusts–those are all chemical reactions. In this book, a mother and daughter experience all these things and more as they go about their day, from when they wake up, to when they go to bed.
Biomimicry / copying nature to solve a human problem
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Nature does it best … and did it first! Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a fun, rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader―”what other problems can be solved?”
‘The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903. When I was growing up, their success seemed like the end of the story. But what I’ve learned from a lifetime of living and working around planes is that the Wright Flyer was just a beginning. Being the first to make something doesn’t always mean your solution is the best one. Engineers spend as much time improving existing designs as creating new ones.’
The Wright brothers’ airplane was an amazing achievement. But imagine if pilots today still Lay on their stomachs and slid their hips back and forth to help control the plane like the Wrights did!
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