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save a life, spot a drowning

Admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:30:22 +0000

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 you escape the ice floe, the hot lava is certain death

Admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:59:54 +0000

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 navigate the treacherous ice floes, avoiding the hot lava running out from underneath their beds, and escaping that hungry black hole. The latest to cameo in their play is the evil tsunami.

Is it the movies they are watching? Or is this simply a side-effect of living where the average elementary school classroom looks like a Benetton commercial and the dinner table discussions are likely to involve topics of research at the local university?

It certainly has nothing to do with my weakness for geek music:

life’s questions without easy answers

Admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:21:40 +0000

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 on my college physics tests came from…

So we’re going to test this. We’ve got ice and rocks and fire.

shh, all my secrets are belong to you

Admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:05:47 +0000

dogs explaining atoms

Admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:54 +0000

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

some chemical reactions

Admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:15:44 +0000

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

hee-hee-ha-ha! presidential election affected testosterone

Admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:45:05 +0000

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.

let’s get small

Admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:46:43 +0000

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.”

hey boobies, you might get tested

Admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:38:39 +0000

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.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole

sarah — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:28:42 +0000

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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