Inside: a pupil dilation experiment you can do at home with kids. It’s a hands-on way to discover how quickly our eyes adjust to a variety of light conditions. Do your kids have an eye exam coming up? Is it going to involve pupil dilation to examine the back of the eye? We recently…
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Why T-Rex could eat rotten meat and you can't
There it is again! That horrible stink! I retrace my steps, stop in front of the living room window, and sniff the air. The narrow space behind the squat, leather arm-chair is difficult to squeeze into, but that seems to be the only spot in the room I haven’t checked. I tug on the heavy…
Chromatography Experiments with Kids - 5 ways
Last week our annual marker chromatography experiment didn’t go as usual. I’m blaming the new fancier (read more expensive) brand of markers we used. Instead of separating, the colors simply spread. It looked pretty and judging from my kids’ excitement not altogether disappointing, but I started to wonder what other chromatography experiments can we do at home. It had…
