My husband was kind of sad yesterday. When I asked why, he pointed out that he grew up just under two miles from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He went to school with the kids of the shuttle astronauts, and one of his Sunday School teachers was an astronaut.
Yesterday the space shuttle landed for the final time.
From reading this blog you might think that my four-year-old daughter was simply obsessed with dinosaurs, but that is only because I have refrained from reporting most of her cat-related antics on the theory that the Internet already has enough cats. So when I found The Cat’s Pajamas in the bargain bin at my local bookstore, I was pretty sure I’d found a winner.
After watching an episode of WordWorld in which Frog and three Piglets play hockey on the moon wearing nothing but a helmet, my daughter wanted to know if this behavior was typical. “Do all astronauts fly in space with just their helmets on?” So I showed her a picture of Neil Armstrong in his space suit. “Why do they need all that?”
On a trip to Davis Farmland, my daughter and I were told that goats have four stomachs. That didn’t seem like it could possibly be true, so when we got home we decided to check the facts. Turns out “goats have four stomachs” is sloppy shorthand for “goats have one very large stomach split into four compartments.” In this post we look at what each of those compartments are used for, and how a goat’s stomach changes over time.
Last weekend, while we were picking raspberries at Monadnock Berries in New Hampshire, one of the bushes committed a vicious assault upon my husband, leaving him…
Preschooler, as mother drives onto the on-ramp for I-95:
“Mommyo, is this the freeway?”
Preschooler, a bit later:
“Does freeway mean there is no speed limit?”
Preschooler, rushing into mother’s room: “Mommyo! Mommyo! I just laid some eggs in the bathroom!”
Mother: “How’d that go for you?”
Preschooler: “Great! I’ll have even more kittens soon!”
Flying cars, solar-powered cars, mind control bikes, and other news of the week
Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs! by Kathleen Kudlinski does a great job of showing how the theory of evolution applies to science itself. Strong hypotheses survive and multiply; weak ones die off.
OK, so the odds are that this guy wasn’t actually the very last dinosaur on the planet before the mass extinction, but it makes for a good headline. (Isn’t it wonderful how facts can be misconstrued so succinctly?)
But I didn’t link to the article just to make a point about its headline.
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