{"id":50,"date":"2012-07-17T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-08-10T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:48:21","slug":"day-4-chicago-illinois-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Chicago, Illinois, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just say that we have been to nearly every science and industry museum east of the Mississippi. We\u2019re members of the Schenectady Museum, which grants us free or reduced admission to hundreds of museums across America. Determined to get her money\u2019s worth, my mother has been taking us to museums since I can remember. The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, however, takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7155\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7155.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7153\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7153.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"818\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was simply phenomenal. A real tornado-simulator took up two floors, and a gigantic spinning dish of sand illustrated the mechanism of an avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Genetics<\/em> exhibit talked about epigenetics, patterns of inheritance, and the future of genetic engineering (all things that I am wholly enthusiastic about, having written a 40-page research paper about epigenetics just this past spring).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7139\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7139.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7141\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7141.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7144\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7144.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Fast Forward<\/em> exhibit brought us completely into the future, with edible food printers (!) and cars that get 300 miles per gallon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7158\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7158.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one activity, B&amp;C and I met Stan, a robot \u201cpatient\u201d, and competed with four other groups to see if we could offer the correct diagnosis based on some simple observation and his vitals. One group went up for their turn to examine Stan, and I took particular pride in noticing the elevated ST complexes on his EKG, which indicated his acute myocardial infarction (a heart attack).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7169\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7169.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_7149\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.amyyaodesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_7149.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went to Lou Malnati\u2019s Pizzeria for dinner (Chicago deep dish pizza\u2014another reason to live here!), and browsed the Money Museum in the Federal Reserve. I wish we didn\u2019t have to leave Chicago, but there\u2019s an entire unexplored Midwest that we have yet to see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just say that we have been to nearly every science and industry museum east of the Mississippi. We\u2019re members of the Schenectady Museum, which grants us free or reduced admission to hundreds of museums across America. Determined to get her money\u2019s worth, my mother has been taking us to museums since I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyyaodesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}