Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Apparently now that the LHC has Google doing its bidding, it's taking it easy and won't become operational anytime soon. Unless September is considered soon, in which case, shit, I won't live to see the finale of LOST. The Large Hadron Collider could be switched back on in September - a year after i...

I swear, I never get tired of watching non-Newtonian fluid fun. In this case, another 2:1 cornstarch to water concoction (aka oobleck) on a speaker. I really liked it when some of the pieces started diving out of the pool. Screw this sausage pool party, I'm outta heeeeeeeeeere!! Amazing cornstarch s...

We had another great week. We didn’t get as much seatwork in, but boy oh boy did we have fun and yeah…we got some learning in I promise! None if this is in cronological order..but that’s ok! The kids got their new Fun Boxes and had a blast with those all week! Taejan and Daddy have...

Unfortunately, it probably doesn't look that awesome since you can't read any of it. So click HERE to see the whole thing and all the awesoments that make the world cool. In 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of "win." That was a prett...

The University of Cambridge, in cooperation with a bunch of school kids, ballooned four teddy bears to 30,000 meters. Because, I mean, why the hell not? A helium balloon was used to get the bears up up and away flying to Near Space or the Edge of Space as it is known. The bears endured temperatures ...

Wow.  I just read the NY Times article, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop” by Matt Richtel.  That’s a pretty scary article, and I assure you, blogging won’t be my undoing.  Family genes most likely will. One thing I noticed in the videos...

I'm starting to like organic chemistry. Not the whole "draw the structure for 1-butanol" part or crap like that, more of the "wow, so this is what makes stuff what it is" part. IT'S THE POWER OF CARBON-HYDROGEN BONDS! . . . I think this is a bad thing. I'm not supposed to like science that's way ove...

Visiting mom's place of work. Mom's work had an "open house" Saturday where they gave tours to family and friends. It was a lot of fun considering the products they create are for the science and the medical field. To begin our tour we met up with our tour guide. Ours looked like he had an eating di...