Friday, July 20, 2007

Evolution is easy!

Thanks to the wonderful folks at BoingBoing (a directory of wonderful things) for directing my attention to this fabulous cultural artifact: a Red Queen Barbie doll! Part of a new line of Alice in Wonderland Barbie toys. Buy this one and all your other Barbie dolls will have to run twice as fast just to keep up.

The only disappointment is how, well, static, the Red Queen looks. Perhaps she should come with a catapult launcher.....

Although Barbie is well known for his difficulty with math she has already revealed a fondness for evolution: witness the Paleontologist Barbie. I love the 'Dinosaur Quiz' on the back - 'if you get five or more right you should consider a career in paleontology too!' Sadly the text is too small to read the actual questions. Although I think one of them may be 'What does Dinosaur mean?' Fortunately diligent searching of the ebay archives produces this better image. Now you too can take the quiz and even check the answers to find out if you too can be a paleontologist!

This time last year: Ecological Footprints and Summer Reading part 2

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1 Comments:

At 9:45 PM, Blogger alex said...

There's a Barbie for everything...

 

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