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How to foster a toddler's yen for engineering | New Scientist

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How to foster a toddler's yen for engineering | New Scientist

For bedtime reading to preschoolers who love engineering, there is nothing quite like “Influence of dimple textures on the tribological performances of tapered roller bearings under starved lubrication”, published recently in Industrial Lubrication and Tribology. The title is a vocabulary builder and a soporific. However, the details may be too complex for the youngest youngsters.

So… how to foster a toddler’s yen to engineer? Tell them about things that roll. Things that rotate. Feed their fondness for things that seem to go round and round without necessarily going anywhere. Tempt them with facts about ball bearings.

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How to foster a toddler's yen for engineering | New Scientist

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