The other night, Liza was tearing through a piece of cake (Liza’s motto: “AHHHHHHHH! CAAAAAAAKE!”), so of course we had to take another picture in the ongoing series of “Liza eats something and gets it all over her”. We didn’t have our real camera at hand, so I took a picture with my iPhone.
The moment [...]
In 1859, Louis Pasteur was just beginning a series of experiments disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
In 1859, diseases were thought to be caused by miasma — bad air — despite John Snow’s work on the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.
In 1859, Gustav Kirchhoff formulated the law of black-body radiation.
In 1859, scientists believed that the [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about scary kids’ toys. Good thing Eli got a new batch for his birthday!
Meet Black Hole.
He’s the enemy from Planet Heroes, Fisher-Price’s new line of planet-themed action figures with tie-in DVDs and comics. You can tell he’s a villain because he speaks with a British accent.
Eli’s fascinated with [...]
From a Marketplace report on the American Securitization Forum comes the following conversation between Kai Ryssdal and Bob Moon:
RYSSDAL: …How do you restore investor faith in what is admittedly a very important part of the economy?
MOON: Well, they’re promising straight talk, for one thing. There’s agreement here that things did get so confusing, you almost [...]
When I’ve written about the non-existent link between vaccines and autism before, I’ve done so without a lot of anger. I can understand how parents would be worried enough about the effects of vaccines to not have their kids vaccinated, even though the antivax movement in the end is a very bad thing.
It turns out [...]
