Category: Science 10

Isabella and Gianfranco’s Rube Goldberg project – “Drop It”

A: The Bucket is tipped over, releasing the tennis ball inside of it.

B: The tennis ball then travels through the open shoe box and exits from a hole cut out at the end of it.

C: The tennis ball then is stopped by a wall of legos and hits the small marble down the ramp made from the lid of the shoe box.

D: The Marble then falls off the table and onto another (bigger) ramp.

E: Marble goes down the ramp.

F: Marble falls into a cut out red solo cup.

G: Marble lands onto the space bar starting “Drop it like it’s hot” by Snoop Dog.

Energy transfers:

A/B : Potential energy turns into kinetic as both balls are hit.

D/E/F/G: Gravitational energy as the marble falls lower and lower.

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Coin Flip Babies! – Isabella

Meet Lia!  My gorgeous daughter.  As you can see, Lia has a round face with a light brown skin tone.  Her beautiful round ocean eyes pop along side her bushy eyebrows.  She has dark brown, wavy hair which she loves to sport into two pigtails.  She’s got thick, pink lips and freckles dotted all over her little cheeks.  She’s got a little button nose right in the centre of her face.  But genetics aside, her environment as lead her to have style just like her mother.

The flip of two different coins is what made Lia.  Each flip determining a different trait.  She could have looked entirely different, but because of the specific combination of traits we flipped, the girl you see in the picture looks the way she does.  Like genetics in real life, you never know what exactly you will get, but you can have an idea based on the traits of the parents, as well as their parents.

Personally, I didn’t have any prejudices based on the appearance of the baby, as I am a loving father, however, Lia’s mother, Gianfranco, did not have the same unconditional love as I had and said he absolutely couldn’t have a daughter with a unibrow.  I do believe that these prejudices come to us based on our environment.  So much of the time, we are given an ideal image based on what beauty is, even if there are many different ideas of
“beautiful traits” across the world.