So apparently, if I want to, I could borrow Bill Nye the Science Guy tapes from the library and make that the entirety of my science curriculum.  Don't think I'm not thinking about it!  :)

Everyone knows that Twittering is a banal waste of time, which only seems popular because people are suckers for anything that a celebrity does, right?  Well, today I discovered that you can read twitters from space.  This is twittering from outer space that we are talking about.  (Well, from orbit, anyhow.  Not sure if that counts as outer space, ( Read more... )

Elijah: "Mom, what's the last number?"
Me: "There is no last number."
Kyrie informed Elijah that the numbers keep going and then said that infinity was the biggest number.
Me: "Sort of. Except that infinity isn't a number.  And there are different kinds of infinity."
Elijah: "Is zero the last number?"
Me: "Um. No." Thinking, 'but dividing by zero is ( Read more... )

Wow.


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