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Greetings and
to "The Doctor Bones Show"

___^The Funny Man of Health !

"Doctor Bones really knows his stuff. He's a lot more informative than Dr. Phil and much more fun than Richard Simmons!" ^___ Susan P.

"Doctor Bones is the 'Will Rogers' of Science and Health!" ^___ Chris St. L.

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_ Health Awareness Show for K-8 kids__



_ Health Show for High School Students_




_ Health Promotion Show for Seniors____




_ Science Demonstrations Show__





__QuackBusters Show__




I also perform the Geometry Guy Show


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Doctor Bones
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___Phone: (845) 406-4623


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and Say No to Mr. Cigarette!

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Kids punch Mr. Cigarette in the nose as they "Give Cigarettes a Knockout Punch!"

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"Couch Potato" Exercises are Fun!


Click on the following link to see some fun Couch Potato Exercises that Doc Bones demonstrates: http://www.drbonesshow.com/page8.html

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Newspaper Articles about the Doctor Bones Show

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Chemistry professor called 'invaluable'

RICH LOGIS
THE TIMES (Journal News Weekly)
(Original publication: March 26, 2004)

There's too much misinformation about science out there, according to Don Mueller.

And it's all Jerry Seinfeld's fault, the Manhattanville science professor joked.

Well, maybe not all of it is Seinfeld's fault, Mueller said. But between the media, politicians and popular culture, too many unqualified people consider themselves science experts, he said.

So Mueller, a visiting chemistry professor at Manhattanville since last year, set out to combat pseudo science. He created "Science and Society," a course that looks at the influence of science on politics, business and technology.

Mueller said he likes to host debates in class because it's important to make students feel comfortable speaking about their opinions. It's also important to clarify any misconceptions about science that students may have. "I try to get them to see that the headlines they see in the paper don't always give them the knowledge they need."

Mueller said he's heard many politicians over the years talk about science and "the sad part is their audience listens to that and thinks they know what they're talking about."

Such misinformation also pops up in entertainment, he said, citing a "Seinfeld" episode that wrongly explained the molecular make-up of a valet driver's body odor.

A Monsey resident, Mueller goes by the nickname Dr. Bones. The moniker is drawn from science experiment shows he holds for children called the "Doctor Bones Show." Since the human bone structure is one of the first science lessons children receive in school, Mueller said, he adopted "Bones" because children commonly ask questions about bones.

Paid for and hosted by schools all over the country, the shows include a variety of experiments. One experiment involved Mueller holding a hair dryer. While the hot air is blowing, a ping-pong ball is dropped in the hot air stream. As the ball appears to float, a 4-foot tube is placed over the ball, causing the ball to shoot out.

Mueller has taught at Penn State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences in Taiwan and Rutgers University, where he earned a doctorate in chemical physics.

At Manhattanville, Mueller helped found the Science Club, which is open to students of all majors. Club members will participate in demonstrations, experiments, trips and, Mueller hopes, debates.

Emerald Shenk, a sophomore, founded the Science Club with Mueller. She said with few chemistry professors at the college, Mueller has been invaluable to the department. Aside from his knowledge, Mueller has brought equipment that the students otherwise wouldn't have had, Shenk said.

"He always has the students' best interests in mind," Shenk said. "He always makes himself available, and he's an interesting guy."

Shenk said with his leadership, the Science Club will be an enriching educational experience for members. "He's an important person here on campus. And he's a fun character."

Mueller's doctoral adviser at Rutgers, chemistry professor John Krenos, said Mueller was one of the finest students ever in the department. He described Mueller as relentlessly creative, motivated and self-sufficient. "He's blazed his own trail," Krenos said. "He was always serious and committed and didn't need a lot of guidance and supervision."

Mueller's doctoral thesis, at 700 pages, was impressive in its scope and scholarship, Krenos said. He also praised Mueller for the children's shows he founded. "I'm amazed by what he's done since he left. He's one of a kind."

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Making learning fun

By KARI NEERING
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 20, 2004)

Jordanna Disser was first in line to take a swing at "Mr. Cigarette."

The foam-rubber character, shaped like a life-size cigarette with red eyes and yellow teeth, was part of a demonstration held at JCC-Y of Rockland yesterday to teach children about health issues.

By punching "Mr. Cigarette," children were told they could knock cigarettes out of their lives for good. So Disser, 5, clenched her fist, drew her arm back and slugged the character square in its fake nose.

"It's not healthy to do," the New Hempstead girl said of smoking.

The afternoon health show was led by Don Mueller, a Manhattanville College chemistry professor known during his presentations as "Doctor Bones."

Mueller, of Monsey, said he gave himself the name when he began hosting health shows because he noticed how interested children were in learning about the bones in their bodies.

To keep yesterday's crowd engaged, Mueller — dressed scientist-like in a white lab coat and black-rimmed glasses — brought a plastic skeleton and allowed the dozen children to shake its hand. He also juggled everything from plastic fruits and vegetables to fake cheese slices and pumpkins while stressing the importance of adhering to the federal food guide pyramid.

"Be healthy and have fun, too — that's what we try to promote," he said.

Mueller said the trick to eating healthily long-term wasn't going without certain foods. Rather, it was to eat all kinds of food in moderation. He said it was never too early to adopt healthy eating habits and children shouldn't always have to eat candy to enjoy themselves.

When asked why vegetables were good for the body, Eytan Rubinstein of Suffern immediately raised his hand with an answer.

"They come from the earth," the 7-year-old said when called on. "And the earth gives healthy food."

In addition to healthy eating, Mueller also discussed exercise, food safety, hygiene and the importance of getting enough sleep. The children cheered for more juggling and laughed the most when Mueller dropped the items. Shula Lofstock, the JCC-Y's cultural arts director, said Mueller made learning fun.

"It was definitely a different way to teach kids about health, nutrition and fitness," she said.

Mueller also showed the children simple exercises they could do at home while watching television, including squats and tricep curls with the help of a few chairs. When asked if anyone knew what a couch potato was, Bridget Anger, 5, of New City stood atop a chair and gave her description to the crowd.

"A couch potato," she said proudly, "is someone that sits and watches TV almost every day."

Mueller, who has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at Manhattanville College for the past year, said he enjoyed the change of pace provided by this kind of presentation.

"I'm a professor," he said. "That doesn't mean that I can't get out there and have some fun."

Send e-mail to Kari Neering

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Dr. Bones hits the science funny bone
ON THE ROAD: Dr. Don Mueller uses props and a sense of humor to teach science and math.

January 11, 2003

By Deborah Medenbach
Times Herald-Record
dmedenbach@th-record.com

Newburgh – Dr. Don Mueller is probably the only person on the planet who can make you feel sorry for a molecule of sulfur dioxide. The research scientist spent months in Taiwan studying how to shoot lasers through the chemical without having it break apart. Day after day, experiment after experiment, Mueller hammered away at the problem.
That kind of single-minded focus can dull the sense of humor of even the most outgoing person. So with a smattering of Mandarin Chinese, Mueller found a way to break up the intensity. Disguised as his comic alter-ego Dr. Bones, he dropped into Taiwanese schoolrooms and hospitals to teach children about science and nutrition. Despite the language barrier, the fruit-juggling scientist became something of a celebrity there, appearing on two television programs and as the subject of numerous newspaper articles.

"Fun is my first motive, and I'll take any chance I can get to juggle," Mueller said. The 40-year-old researcher, who now lives in Goshen, took his show on the road in 1998, filling his hours outside college labs with quirky interactive programs designed to get children interested in math and science. The price of such dedication is that sometimes the kids walk off with his props, like the little boy found by a school security guard with one of Mueller's giant plastic hamburgers. Still, he'd rather have kids yearn to take something away than to leave all of science's treasures behind.

As Dr. Bones, Mueller teaches about nutrition, health, physics and chemistry. As Geometry Guy, Mueller's playful enthusiasm generates a circus of mathematical games and tricks. "It's said that you should be able to explain even the most complex theories in a way everyone can understand. If you can't do that, you don't understand the theory well enough yourself," Mueller said. His drive to spark interest in science among school children started when he noticed college students in his classes who didn't understand basic theories. "As young children, they'd have learned science from a teacher shuffled in from the English department to fill a vacant slot," he said. "How are they supposed to get a love for science from a teacher who doesn't understand the principles?"

In addition to creating an entertaining persona, Mueller invented geometric cookies with the equation for determining their area stamped into them and a breakfast cereal based on the periodic table. He has nine educational food products and games he hopes to market along with his shows.

As a post-doctoral college-level instructor and researcher, Mueller travels to where the teaching posts or research opportunities are. This gives him a chance to take his Dr. Bones and Geometry Guy shows across the nation. A year ago, Mueller went to Ohio for a college professorship interview. Though he didn't get the job, he did two Dr. Bones shows, appeared in an area newspaper and still appears on the Cincinnati Children's Hospital's Web site. Mueller will soon move to Rockland County to teach chemistry this spring at Marymount College and then on to a research fellowship in Manhattan. No matter how far afield or intense his research gets, light-hearted Dr. Bones will entertain children wherever he lands.

Rolling bones
Dr. Bones will perform from 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m. Tuesday at the Horizons on the Hudson School, 137 Montgomery St., Newburgh, and give a program on osteoporosis Friday at the Mulberry House Senior Center in Middletown. For more information about upcoming Dr. Bones or Geometry Guy shows, call (845) 425-6270 or e-mail drmueller@optonline.net

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2002 Pediatric Health News Releases

May 7, 2002 - Dr. Bones Prescribes Laughter To Cincinnati Children's Patients Cincinnati Children's Hospital

CINCINNATI - At 6 pm on Wednesday, May 8, Dr. Bones and his sidekick, Skelly the skeleton, will teach patients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center about health and nutrition through interactive games in the Location H child life activity center. "After teaching high school and college students, I noticed my students were poorly equipped at basic math and science - and not much better at understanding health concepts," says Don Mueller, PhD (a.k.a. Doctor Bones), a chemistry professor and researcher from Troy, New York. "The Doctor Bones Show is an effort to educate and entertain children about the importance of eating a nutritious diet and participating in daily practices to help maintain a healthy body." Doctor Bones will juggle food from the Food Guide Pyramid, tells jokes and involves children in games, such as Name that Vegetable. Skelly Skeleton teaches children that laughter is a good form of exercise and is a proven stress reliever. "Laughter is a daily technique used by Cincinnati Children's child life specialists to help patients get through the sad times," says Sharon McLeod, director of Child Life and Recreational Therapy at Cincinnati Children's. Child Life at Cincinnati Children's is a unique department of dedicated child life specialists focusing on promoting optimal growth and development in children, reducing the stress of health care experiences, providing support and education to children and their families and advocating for psychosocial care in pediatrics.

Amy Caruso, 513-636-5637, amy.caruso@chmcc.org

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Doctor Bones shares a nutritious message

By: Amanda Bok , Staff Writer (South Brunswick Post) 12/14/2000

Jokes and juggling help get the message across to kids

An educator by nature, scientist by profession and juggler by force of habit, Doctor I.M. Bones jokes, juggles and entertains his way into the minds - and funny bones - of young children. Doctor I.M. Bones, played by Monmouth Junction resident Dr. Don Mueller, and his trusted associate, Skelly Skeleton, teach young kids about nutrition and health.

Their traveling show, "Doctor Bones Show," which will present "Holiday Hijinks - The case of why we eat what we eat during the holidays," at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, in Borders Books, Nassau Park, Route 1 in West Windsor.
The show routinely performs throughout the New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas.

"The show is about nutrition," said Dr. Mueller, who uses the food pyramid to illustrate the importance of balanced meals and what vitamins and minerals are needed for healthy living. He also teaches kids about the basic anatomy of the human body, including bones, muscles, nerves and the brain. But, in order to capture the attention of the audience, lessons are taught through games, jokes, songs and a lot of food-juggling.

The lines: "Why are bananas never lonely? Because they hang out in bunches," may get children's attention. If not, "why couldn't the orange cross the street? Because she ran out of juice," may do the trick. "If I can get the kids interested in listening to me, they will take something from the show," said Dr. Mueller.

Audiences of all ages are welcome, but there is a lot the doctor wants young children in particular to learn. "The more aware kids are of science, math and nutrition, the less likely they'll be to do some of the bad things, like smoking and drinking," he said. His show is meant both to educate and entertain, but his goals reach farther than to the nearest laugh.

Dr. Mueller began this show about three years ago, after teaching at the university level and noticing that his students weren't versed in science and math at the levels they should have been. "I do this show because I enjoy working with children. But, I also do it to stave off the university problem by going out to the schools," said Dr. Mueller. His goal is to alleviate the burden of university professors forced to review high school levels of math and science, of high school teachers who fill in the math and science knowledge students didn't get in middle school, and so on down the line.

And along the way, he also wants to get kids interested in science and math at the earliest ages. "I want to show them that science and math is fun, and go against the stereotype that all science people are geeky," he said.

Dr. Mueller has a Ph.D in chemical physics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and also has a strong background in biochemistry and anatomy/physiology. He has taught chemistry at the university levels and tutored math and science students at the kindergarten through 12th-grade levels.

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Doctor Bones set to visit Taiwan

By: Amanda Bok , Staff Writer (South Brunswick Post) 05/03/2001

The "Doctor Bones Show" is going international. Doctor Don Mueller, the man who has charmed children in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas with his humorous health-awareness show, "Doctor Bones Show," is taking his act overseas — to Taiwan.

Dr. Mueller plays Dr. I.M. Bones, a character who juggles and often drops plastic vegetables, fruits and other foods — to the delight of his audiences. Dr. Mueller has been performing the show routinely for the last three years in an effort to raise awareness of nutrition and health. Now, Dr. Mueller is taking his act to a different audience: the children of Taiwan. "It's another opportunity to do the show and have some fun," Dr. Mueller said. "I'm just trying to get kids to take some notice about nutrition and feel better about themselves."

Dr. Mueller, who conducts chemical and physics research at the University of Pennsylvania, will travel to Taipei, Taiwan where he will further his research using laser experiments at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. Dr. Mueller has a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He will be in Taiwan for the next three months.

In the show, which is about nutrition, Dr. Mueller uses the food pyramid to illustrate the importance of balanced meals and what vitamins and minerals are needed for healthy living. He also teaches kids about the basic anatomy of the human body, including bones, muscles, nerves and the brain.

Dr. Mueller began this show after teaching at the university level and noticing that his students weren't versed in science and math at the levels they should have been. His goal was to alleviate the burden of university professors forced to review high school levels of math and science, of high school teachers who fill in the math and science knowledge students didn't get in middle school, and so on down the line. Dr. Mueller doesn't directly teach math and science in his show, but hoped to awaken children's' interest in those subjects through the show's games, jokes and juggling tricks. "I do this show because I enjoy working with children. But, I also do it to stave off the university problem by going out to the schools," said Dr. Mueller.

While Taiwan may not have a comparable problem, Dr. Mueller said he would enjoy going into the schools anyway, if nothing else to entertain them. He also said he could learn from them, but would depend on friends to translate for him as he doesn't speak the language. "I think their sense of nutrition is probably more sophisticated than ours," Dr. Mueller said. "But I think the show will translate physically, and I think I'll learn new things."

For starters, Dr. Mueller said he would study the Asian food pyramid as well as try to translate his jokes. He plans to attend children's hospitals and schools. In addition to his research, Dr. Mueller has taught chemistry at the university levels and tutored math and science students at the kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Doctor Bones Entertains at Borders Books in Princeton, NJ with some Holiday Food Juggling, Food Jokes and more!

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