glue sky » 2009

Nature and Bird Songs

Out here in the faaar Mid-West suburbs there is a lot of wildlife. My old home on the beaches of California had none. You had to go to the ocean if you wanted to see nature.

Infant Jaundice Treatment Explained

I really appreciated this explaination from the Naked Scientists podcast on Infant Jaundice. The scientist explaining it doesn’t have the best sense of humor, but that aside it’s a quick listen. It’s an amazing reactions when jaundice meets sunlight. They do a demo with a glass “baby.” I recommend listening to it rather than reading [...]

Colored Polymer Clay Sculpting

Aunt Nora and Alice were in for a visit this weekend from California, so I ordered some polymer clay for an activity.

Food Allergies May Be Linked to Obesity

Researchers studying more than 4,000 children ages 2 to 19 enrolled in a larger survey of childhood health found a significant association of overweight and obesity with allergic reactions to eggs, peanuts and other common allergens. For example, overweight and obese children were over 50 percent more likely than those of normal weight to be allergic to [...]

Some Notes On: Pencils

Pencils. Oma requested this one.

Dirt, Water, Rocks, Containers

Lou organized this. She got some dirty rocks and requested some water in her watering can.

School Closings for Flu Fail to Keep Kids Home

From the NYT.

Science to Keep Teens From Drinking

I’m not buying the last two but the first couple of pointers might work. Especially the first. 1. Don’t drink if you want to remember prom. Explain that the hippocampus is the part of the brain that stores memory. But because it is still developing in teens, even small amounts of alcohol can erase their [...]

The Garden

We have a huge garden. We started seeds a while ago and finally got them into the dirt this week.

Language – “We can figure this out.”

Our neighbor came over yesterday with her little 15 month old daughter. She said the daughter was starting to have tantrums and they aren’t sure what to do when she does them, so they just ignore them. I thought back to 15 months with Lou. I looooved that age. Lou was really grasping the world [...]

Add Some Oat O’s to that Spaghetti

I found Lou doing this the other day. We had this stuff out for her old scale which we got from Grandpa Carl.

Cheerios Told to Apply as a Drug

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned General Mills Inc. (GIS) that the labeling for Cheerios whole-grain oat cereal contained “serious violations” of agency rules. From the Dow Jones via CNN.