Nature's Machines The Story of Biomechanist Mimi Koehl (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 1: Hope Calling
Chapter 1: Hope Calling
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How do antennae catch odors wafting in the wind or in water swirling around them? How can soft, squishy animals move around without a bony skeleton?
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Mimi'sachievement went far beyond what was expected of her as a child.
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Mimi have played gags on each other for years. Mimi once planted plastic pink flamingos on field sites where Bob does ecological research on an offshore island near Washington State.
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University of She wondered, Which one of my friends or family could have dreamed up Washington marine this trick? biologist Bob Paine She finally called the phone number that "Ken Hope" had left laughs upon discovering that on her answering machine.
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"It was thrilling to be named in articles listing all these famous people," Mimi remembers. "I kept pinching myself to make sure it was really true." HOPE CALLING 3
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Every year the foundation picks a committee NA of several hundred people to nominate creative individuals in various fields. The foundation keeps the names of committee members secret.
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"She has gone so much further than me in a field that I helped pioneer in North America." ~"Crazy, Creative People" At the time Mimi won the MacArthur Fellowship, the foundation held meetings in Chicago where the various MacArthur winners gathered. People read poetry, played music, showed videos of dance performances, or talked about their research.
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Because apply force. And when you stop she's curious about how solid organisms applying force, they bounce back to interact with moving fluids.
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the courage to do a presentation on biomechanics -- the exciting branch of science that uses the principles of engineering and physics Diving into her work, to figure out how living things work. Mimi studies spawning Mimi showed videotapes of the underwater world she visits sea creatures on Australia's Great Barrier often -- and loves deeply.
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