What is a good scientific model?
Whatever you do – don’t do a solar system or volcano! Make a small bridge out of toothpicks or straws (or a bigger one out of wooden shishkabob skewers). Make a pictorial representation (a collage) of the human mind, paying attention to what areas of the brain do what. Make a miniature trebuchet or catapult to study physics (and the brain because ancient Greeks thought the brain functioned like a catapult – just like today we think of the brain as a computer). Make a model of a gold atom model out of actual gold coins! And, “No,” I don’t always anesthetize my curiosity with ‘God.’ In fact, one of the most spiritual times in my life I lived with a feeling that there need exist no God for perfection to exist. [HEY! – Dr. R’s here! – it’s been, what, two months.
