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Category Archives: children
Darwinian medicine according to a 6 year old
It’s late afternoon and dad is lying sprawled out on the bed with the lights off having a massive migraine. 6 year old enters the dark bedroom with a book under his arm. 6yr old: (holding up the book) Dad, … Continue reading
Posted in children, fatherhood, Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin according to a 6 year old
The following conversation transpired today on the way home from the grocery store. Me: So what can you tell me about Charles Darwin? 6yr old: He was a scientist, he was an entomologist, he was a father of 10, and … Continue reading
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Evolution according to kids
This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.
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Debunking nonsense à la first-grader
As a post script to my previous post about debunking nonsense “science”, here is a remarkable story hot off the blog roll. Blue Lab Coats is retelling the story of how her 6-year old daughter straightened out her class in … Continue reading
Posted in children, Creationism, science, skeptic
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International Rock-Flipping Day – so many rocks, so little time
It’s that time of year again. Round up your kiddos, go into nature, flip rocks, and get to know the wondrous creatures that live underneath them. Explore and marvel at the entangled bank of biological diversity, form and function that … Continue reading
Posted in bugs, Charles Darwin, children, teaching
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McEvolutional
I am happy to report that there is yet another reason not to take you kiddos to McDonalds (like one really needs to come up with another one). Carlos Artieri of the Musings of a Mad Biologist has a more … Continue reading
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Childhood use of antibiotics increase the risk for respiratory problems
A study described on the web site of Scientific American (originally published in the journal Chest) link early use of antibiotics to respiratory ills. The study involved 13,000 children from infancy to age seven links and showed that that use … Continue reading
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Causes of child mortality in Iraq
There is a playground the greenbelt close to where we live in Davis where I often hang out with my tot. The other day as I was trolling for a lost ball in some dense brushes by the playground when … Continue reading
Posted in children, fatherhood, Iraq, war
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Hello world and meet the Pineda-Krch Lab
Hello world and welcome to my research blog. The purpose of this bloglet is to provide a sort of semi-dynamic web page of the pseudo-current status of my research projects and other related stuff.
