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Description of Pictures: The USA Science & Engineering Festival hosted by Lockheed Martin will set the stage for attendees to meet some of the biggest celebrities in the science world on April 28-29 in Washington, D.C. Whether you’re a fan of Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of the Discovery Channel’s hit TV series the MythBusters, Bill Nye the Science Guy, the Big Bang Theory or the many entrepreneurs who are leading the charge in the Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) fields, the stars will be out in full force at the Festival – the nation’s largest celebration of science and engineering.
“The Festival is extremely fortunate to have very strong relationships with some of the most famous science celebrities, performers and entrepreneurs who will join us for the festival this year,” said Larry Bock, Executive Director of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. “We believe that these high profile personalities of the science world have a profound impact on increasing the knowledge of, and interest in, science for both adults and children, and we’re proud to have so many fantastic ambassadors.”
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USASF_120428_001.JPG: It looks totally different without people. The calm before the storm...
USASF_120428_051.JPG: Electric spark
USASF_120428_122.JPG: Was this Dinosaur an Egg Thief?
When the first oviraptorid dinosaur was discovered in the 1920s on a nest of eggs like these, scientists assumed that the eggs belonged to Protoceratops, another dinosaur commonly found in the area. Paleontologists also thought that the oviraptorid was stealing the eggs for food.
Examine the Evidence:
Many years later, scientists discovered an egg with an embryon inside.
USASF_120428_128.JPG: Prehistoric bird
USASF_120428_143.JPG: There were several contests for Rubik's Cube speed solvers. The agility of these kids is impressive.
USASF_120428_182.JPG: A furry
USASF_120428_185.JPG: Sally Bourre, Alan Vander Mallie, Rose Fabia
USASF_120428_189.JPG: These folks were watching the Rubik's competition
USASF_120428_304.JPG: Bug eating. I didn't try it but I doubt any of it tasted like chicken.
USASF_120428_331.JPG: This spider species was apparently not a person biter but I was still impressed at the courage of the kid.
USASF_120428_393.JPG: Science Cheerleaders
USASF_120428_406.JPG: The game here is to embed physical things in the Play-Doh, using the stick to probe the stuff and try to determine what the object inside was.
USASF_120428_435.JPG: This is a mechanical version of the titanaboa, an ancient 40-foot boa that scientists reconstructed based on a vertebrae found in an industrial ground extraction pit in South America.
Titanoboa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titanoboa, meaning "titanic boa," is a genus of snake that lived approximately 58–60 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the dinosaur extinction event. The only known species is the Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis.
USASF_120428_454.JPG: Making "brains" at the National Museum of Health and Medicine booth
USASF_120428_466.JPG: The had various characters walking around as scientists. This Albert Einstein character was demonstrating a paper skull from the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM).
USASF_120428_504.JPG: Showing where the tourniquet would be applied before amputating the arm during the Civil War.
USASF_120428_526.JPG: Making funnels from water bottles
USASF_120428_545.JPG: Making oatmeal from dry ice
USASF_120428_577.JPG: Roger Gilbertson and family
USASF_120428_605.JPG: Smoke rings
USASF_120428_612.JPG: Notice her hair standing on end from the electrostatic device
USASF_120428_721.JPG: The guy walking the mechanical spider is Chris Kubasik, who's scheduled to take over Lockheed Martin in January 2013.
Wikipedia Description: USA Science and Engineering Festival
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The biennial USA Science & Engineering Festival is a free science festival held in Washington, D.C.. The festival 2010 is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in the United States. Larry Bock and Ray O. Johnson of the Lockheed Martin Corporation founded the festival.
The inaugural event was held from October 10, 2010, through October 24, 2010, the second festival was April 27–29, 2012 (attended by a quarter million visitors) and the third festival (attended by over 325,000 visitors) was April 24–27, 2014. The third festival featured the first X-STEM Symposium on April 24, 2014, with interactive presentations and workshops. The fourth festival will be held on April 16-17, 2016. The second X-STEM Symposium will be held as a stand-alone event on April 14, 2016.
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA),
a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean,
another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and
my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc).
Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else..
Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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