Someone asked me one time if I had an easy explanation for evolution and I told them I have a three-word one: "hair and milk".Nothing shows how much we have in common (descent) with other mammals than those three words. When a baby is hungry the baby knows what to do.Or not. Apparently the mechanism of suckling is up for debate. It sounds funny but I like that science is out to understand the...
read moreIf you, like me, want to enjoy some science with your kids and not feel pushy about it, National Geographic has a terrific program coming out this evening. My kids can't get enough of None Of The Above which debuts at 9 PM tonight.Host Tim Shaw gets right to it and kids like that. He has the two episodes we saw moving at full-speed.The premise is simple; Tim presents a fun or clever twist on a...
read morePeak Organic Brewing Co. has announced that it has become the first brewer to receive Non-GMO Project verification for its beer.They believe this makes their product more 'pure' than beers which contain grains that have instead been randomly mutated and hybdrized over thousands of years. read...
read moreThe Walking Dead season finale is coming soon and nothing goes with zombie television like brains. In beer.No, really. Dock Street in Philadelphia is introducing a Walking Dead beer, called "Walker", I suppose, to avoid the inevitable lawsuit. It's the brain child (their pun, not mine) of head brewer Justin Low and sales rep Sasha Certo-Ware and is billed as an American Pale Stout brewed...
read moreIn the absence of any evidence for why different people perform differently in school - other than that people are different - pundits have invented everything from genetic math anxiety to stereotype threat as an explanation. read...
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