1. Agree or Disagree? When cows fall asleep standing up, it is easy (and fun!) to sneak up next to them and tip them over. Birds eating rice thrown at weddings swell up and die (even burst). Animals exposed to radioactive waste mutate and turn into other types of animals.

2. Agree or Disagree? Earthworms come up onto the sidewalks after heavy rain to avoid being drowned in their underground tunnels. People licking toads have hallucinations. Lennon wrote better music than Tchaikovsky. Heaven is not in our solar system, but it is somewhere in the universe.

3. You and science Talk about how you became interested in science? Why did you choose to complete an undergraduate degree in science? How do you feel about science at this stage of your life?

4. Science involves… Using and extending the senses Observing and collecting Probing and testing Deductive hypothesis testing Inductive search for patterns Building increasingly accurate explanations based on evidence

5. Mendeleev and the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements

6. Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle

7. Fleming and the serendipitous discovery of the first antibiotic

8. Charles Drew researched blood plasma, found that blood could be preserved and reconstituted at a later date.

9. Franklin &Wilson Watson & Crick

10. Jane Goodall and the willingness to break with convention