On family history

Do your kids like to hear stories about your parents, or your grand parents, or great-grand parents? Do they love to sit and hear about their first birthday, or their first steps, or the time they put a bug in their ear and went to the ER? Do you help them (older kids, that is) […]

Whale bone worms

This is cool. A new type of worm, found 9,400 feet below the ocean’s surface. And dig this, they’re taking Mir’s commune concept to heart. Dig this: “Initially we were puzzled why every worm was a female,” Vrijenhoek said in a telephone interview. He said Rouse took some worms to his laboratory for study and […]

Slow news day

I actually have a couple things I want to write about, but they might take a while and I’m busy at work today, so here’s a little family stuff: Yesterday my three year old got in touch with his Inner Engineer and started taking stuff apart. Yes, he found a screwdriver or something. By last […]