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My public service for the day – tips for spotting a drowning. May you never need to know this, but just in case you do.

If only to be a fly on the wall when these things get introduced on the preschool playground. If the dangers my children are avoiding in their play are any indication, the preschool playground is a heady science convention. Gone are the days of cowboys and indians. My children, instead, spend hours working together to [...]

Will and I have deep conversations. Yesterday he asked me what would happen if a meteoroid ran into the sun. “It would burn up in its approach because the sun is super hot.” Okay, what would happen if a meteoroid as big as the sun hit the sun? Huh. So this is where the questions [...]

Everyone is back to full health over here. It is movie time! Goldens explaining atoms.

explained by the Europe Research Committee using a dance party analogy.

Chalk this up in the list of topics I can’t believe people spent time researching, but this is amusing – apparently, males who voted for John McCain showed a drop in their testosterone levels after the election. Read all about it.

If you don’t already feel insignificant, you certainly will after watching this footage modeled from pictures taken by the Hubble. Will asked, “Are those planets?” “No, those are galaxies that contain billions of planets.” “Awesome.”

Although researchers identified the gene known to dramatically increase the risk of hereditary breast or ovarian cancer years ago, doctors aren’t really pushing the testing. If there is a history of either cancer type in your family, you should probably ask your doctor if this testing would be appropriate for you.
More about the test.

I’m actually working, but found this on the internets this morning and thought it was too cool to not share. What would it be like to die in a black hole? Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers that for us. (thanks to How Good Is That)

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