In my last post I asked some incredibly pressing questions to Dr. Scott Sampson aka Scott the Paleontologist. Questions that any parent of a Dinosaur Train fan wants to know... I got a reply and I have to say Dr. Scott is hilarious and pretty awesome... But I'm a fan of science humor... So here are his responses in line with mine. They're in blue because that's the color of most of Shiny Pteranodon. Dear Scott the Paleontologist, My son Miloh and I are fans of Dinosaur Train and as an avid fan I have some questions regarding it that I hope you can answer: The train is a steam engine. Does it run off coal? If it does use coal is there a possibility that greenhouse gases from that could have lead to the extinction of dinosaurs? How come this isn't a theory? Very interesting question. Yes, to the best of my knowledge, the Dinosaur Train runs on fossil fuels, but we actually do have an episode upcoming where we investigate alternative fuel trains. Given that
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i totally read every single one of these and wish i thought of it as well as had more infographics in my day to day. nerd.
ReplyDeletehello! just found this, love your blog. i will be following. want to do a link exchange? ill put you in my blogs i dig and vice versa? let me know, thanks! -sarah, rock n' stroll
ReplyDeleteI read. Miloh is like a week older than Bronwyn, so it's actually interesting to me. Not that I have anything to compare since I don't track anything.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE them. I read all of them ;)
ReplyDeleteso I am proven wrong...thanks.
ReplyDeleteI figured people look at them, but it's the same info over and over so the sub-head kind of things (stuff after number of bottles or diapers) is tough to come up with new stuff every week...and I had creative block this week.
thanks
reading these give me hope for the 2 infographics classes i took.
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maddie
I read them.
ReplyDeleteI heart them.
They make me jealous that I don't do cool things like keep stats on my kids.
Mom fail.
@maddie I think an infographics teacher would scoff at my weeklies because they are probably not technically infographics. I think these number ones have a different name.
ReplyDeleteYour weekly infographics are great. Miloh will love to see these when he is older.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, do you know David McCandless? I think you'd love his latest book, Information is Beautiful. You should check it out.
I do know David McCandless. I'd love to be at that level sometime but aside from Miloh I have no graphics to do...I should just do random ones.
ReplyDeleteHe has a Ted video but I haven't watched it yet http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html