Ok, bad wording. It entailed me (without kids) going to a quarry known to have lots of fossils (which were of no interest to the quarry), and hauling boxes of likely-candidate rocks back to the program. Kids got to don safety glasses and wield rock hammers until they found a fossil, which they could then take home. So: not fossils of us, but ones we could keep.
Kids’ memories. Well, they were kids then but adults by now. I had to plan a monthly adventure/field-trip for an after school program aged k-3rd grade. We toured the inside of a telephone exchange where the employee guide explained to the kids that every phone in town had two wires connected to the the massive room they were viewing. They went through a bunch of details about batteries, electricity, and phones – and most of it may have gone over the kids heads, but the size and scale of all those wires had mouths agape.
We had some other good adventures like finding our own fossils and growing seeds, and each seemed to spark interests in different kids. I don’t have pictures and I don’t know how the kids turned out, but judging by their reactions, I feel certain tiny brains formed new connections on those outings even if that spark event has been forgotten.
Neuro Fuzzy by Zojirushi? That rice cooker is awesome, but predates AI. Here’s an archive link to the product from 20 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20050717012420/http://www.zojirushi.com/ricecookers.html
I’m sure that’s true now , but search engines used to be so much better.
One of my grandmothers had secret recipes, but when realized her time was coming to an end she taught each of her daughters different ones. So one was taught these sauces, another those desserts, and the other some special entrees. Of course the daughters got together and trained one another, but that was the point.
Someone to save us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you?
Please, don’t stake our lives on a Saviour Machine.
ok, I’ll stop, but was either guess the particular Bowie that triggered the thought?