* Thoroughly
cooking foods of animal origin such as beef, eggs, fish, lamb, milk, poultry or shellfish reduces the risk of food borne illness.
Events for the younger set included a tour
of «the fourth dimension» — a room full
of hypercubes and other higher dimensional objects that gave me a touch
of vertigo; a chamber
of robots that you could teach to play football; a demonstration
of forensic science involving (real) guns and a (fake) cadaver in a staged crime scene; a live
cooking show in which physicists, chemists, and anthropologists explained the science and
origins of food; and a walking tour through the natural history
of excrement featuring — you guessed it — a dizzying array
of animal feces.