We spent Christmas in Florida last year. As we were driving to the airport for our flight home, we started talking about time. Specifically, time zones and how they would affect our travel plans. On hearing that when it’s 11:15 a.m. in Boston, it’s only 10:15 a.m. in Pensacola, Florida, The (then) Four-Year-Old asked: “Is Florida faster than Boston or slower?”
Black holes are selective snackers, if peas really can talk should we be eating them, and other news of the week
Baby eagle webcam, male trees in cities, and other news of the week
This week finds us enthralled by the many flavors of evolutionary adaptation.
NIH suspends funding for testing on chimps We start this week with a follow-up to a previous Caterpickle which mentioned that the NIH was preparing a…
As part of her Mars Rover Curiosity Liftoff Celebration, The Four-Year-Old built a satellite launch pad out of Legos, with only a few targeted assists from her parents. While hard at work on the cargo truck, The Four-Year-Old paused long enough to ask, “Mommyo, how long do satellites stay in the air?”
One day, after I (gently) batted The Four-Year-Old’s hand down from scratching at two bites on her face, she asked, “Mommyo, why are mosquito bites little red bumps?”
NASA finds water on one of Jupiter’s moons, performing medical techniques on stuffed animals is good practice for future veterinarians, the end of animal testing, and other news of the week.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 buzzes by the Earth and other space news of the week.
A week or two ago there was a heated scene in our kitchen between my daughter and her father regarding the future of a rather extraordinary (in my daughter’s opinion) wishbone extracted from a rather ordinary (in her father’s opinion) rotisserie chicken. My daughter wanted to add the wishbone to her collection. My husband objected. “Bones have no place in this house. Unless they are fossils.” Wait for it… “Daddyo, how long will it take for my wishbone to fossilize?”
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