Whisper Dishes Work

There’s 60 feet between the Whisper Dishes in the Big Science Park outside at CoSI.

That’s Charlie in the teal shirt. He whispers and I can hear him, clear as a bell, all those sixty feet away. Amazing.


“Whisper dishes, also known as acoustic mirrors, are parabolic-shaped devices that collect and reflect sound waves, allowing for communication over distances, even at a whisper. They work by focusing sound waves onto a focal point, where they can be easily heard, and then reflecting those waves to another dish, where they are focused and amplified again

Today You are Three!

August 1st! Happy birthday Roy.

Big brother Charlie holds newborn Roy
August 3 2022
Today July 31 2025 at COSI Sharks exhibit

You Know How it Ends and It’s Grim

The Titanic Exhibit at COSI

It’s extensive, informative, great attention to detail, and leaves one feeling incredibly sad.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition

Mar 9, 2024 — More than 350 real artifacts recovered from the wreck site of Titanic are on display in this exhibition along with full-scale room re-creations.”

We each had a boarding pass with information about a passenger and at the end we scanned a code to see their fate. Only one of us had a survivor, the rest were victims who died.

My father was an infant when the Titanic sunk as he was born February 26, 1912.

The LEGO model

A Fish Out of Water

Laura saw this Goldfish cracker at the CoSI museum and gave me the title too.

Happy Ninth Birthday!

What a happy weekend celebration, Charlie. I’m marking my calendar today cause when it’s your birthday today, I know it’s just six months until Christmas.

COSI (center of Science and Industry) Color Exhibition – it was fun to watch you and your cousin play in the changing hues.

Happy Birthday Charlie

A Yarn Bomb Tree Guest Blog

My family knows how I feel about yarn. It’s nice to be thought of- Laura and Charlie saw this Yarn Bomb Tree Season of Celebrations at COSI in Columbus Ohio and sent me these photos.

It Wasn’t Actually Silk

At COSI in the Progress Exhibit

if you’re interested in the evolution of TP here’s an article.

Water Bells at COSI

COSI Center of Science and Industry in Columbus

Surface tension of water molecules illustrated in this exhibit.

Here’s an article Fun With Water Bells you can try this at home
Charlie stuck his hand in the flowing water you can see how it created a divide
The 3 Water Bells

“It turns out that this effect was already studied for the first time in 1833 by the famous French physicist Félix Savart and has fascinated many great physicist ever since (Boussinesq (1869), Taylor (1959) and, recently, Clanet (2001)). They found that the shape of the bell can be understood as an delicate interplay between inertia, surface tension and gravity click for more information from a physicist‘s perspective

Obscurus Blatta by Michelle Stitzlein

The artist Michelle Stitzlein uses recycled materials to create these sculptures.

Seen at COSI

Throwback Thursday @COSI

COSI center of Science and Industry

These photos in the gallery are from the Progress Exhibit of the museum. Charlie and Laura and I had a fun visit.

The Classic blue and white car which is in the CUBA Exhibit

“Travel through time and interact with the technology from 1898. Then turn a corner and find yourself generations later – in 1962 – in that same town.”

In the CUBA exhibit
Picnic lunch in the shade