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June 2, 2011 03:24 am PDT

Thoughts for scientist parents

In Science magazine, Adam Ruben explores what it means to be a scientifically minded parent, from conception onward: Scientists speak to their children differently than most people, and I'll probably find myself saying one or more of the following: - "I'll pick you up from school at 3:30 10 minutes." - "Oh, I see. And if all of your friends rejected the Copernican principle, does that mean you would, too?" - "I know you like peanut butter, but I don't know if you like peanut butter and jelly, so I packed you one sandwich of each. The peanut-butter-only sandwich is the control group." - "Don't waste food! There are starving grad students in the world!" - "If you kids don't quiet down back there, I swear I'll turn this car radians." - "Sorry, I'd love to buy you that video game system, but the funding didn't come through." Experimental Error: Fetus Don't Fail Me Now (via /.)...


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