Hangry is hard. Especially when you're a kiddo.

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Morning mist on #FoggyFriday

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Kids and I watched the Spiderman trailer and now July can't come fast enough.

#marvel #spiderman

Reading with my Kids Little brother (reading over older brother's shoulder): any real body must extend in four directions: it must have length, breadth, space, and time. There are really four dimensions. . . the three planes of space and. . . time. Little brother: So, does that mean our bodies are four-dimensional? Older brother: No, a 2D object can exist in a 3D space. Is that right, Mom? We're 3D, right? Me: We're 3D at any one moment in time. But I think what the author is saying is that over the period of our lifetime, we're tracing a four-dimensional path through time. Big Brother: But if time is a 4th dimension, then . . .

are we passing through it? Or are we occupying it? Wouldn't we be occupying a dimension? Little brother: Ooh, if we're not moving through time, is time moving through us? Me: You know what, it's time to go to bed. Both: Mom! Me: Well, I'm no quantum physicist, but maybe if you keep thinking about it, someday, you'll figure it out. Then you can tell me all about it. For now, bedtime. Both: Aww

This week's book was the Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

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Me: Why can't you laugh in Hawaii?
Kid: Because the coconuts crack up at all the jokes first?
Me: Nice. But actually, you can laugh. It just has to be A-low-ha
Kid: Har-har

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We installed solar panels years ago and it was one of the best, most financially sound home-upgrade decisions we've made. Has anyone living in the US actually tried installing a heat pump system? If so, has it worked out for you?

Conversations with Kids Kid (down with a fever): Mom, how high can a fever go? Me: Temperatures above 40˚C (104˚F) in humans gets dangerous. Kid: Why? Me: Well, humans are homeothermic mammals. Meaning we maintain our body temperature at a constant level and start to see cell damage and organ failure at temperatures higher than 40˚C. Kid: But I thought all mammals were like that. Are there mammals that can raise their temperatures higher? Me: Some mammals employ heterothermy. The body temperature of the fat-tailed dwarf lemur for example can vary by ~25˚C (45˚F) in a single day. Some bats can do it as well. Kid: Whoa. Why would they need that?

Me: It's to help them survive a wider variety of conditions. Hibernation is a type of heterothermy - an extreme one. But some mammals enter something called "torpor" based on day-to-day conditions, storms, flood, famine, really anything that makes it hard to survive. Kid: They must have really different body chemistries from humans. Me: Yep. Evolution took so many different paths to solve the same problems. There is no single "just right" Kid: Do you think it's lonely for them when they fall into torpor? Me: Oh, if the animal is a social sleeper, like a bat or a sugar-glider, they might enter into torpor with their social group. They wouldn't necessarily be alone. Kid: That's nice. You don't want to go through scary things alone. Even if you're able to sleep through it. .

Wish you all a happy, healthful weekend. Here are a couple of articles that relate to today's post:
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23636180/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Why are spiders so good at the internet? It's coz they're such good web developers

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

If you’re interested, here’s an article on the many different types of webs spiders weave: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/spi...

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Lately, my kids and I seem to have circled back to how our senses work again and again. I only noticed the pattern after re-reading recent posts and seeing the thread between them. Growth occurs in such small increments that it's only when we step back and trace the arc that we notice it.

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Kid: Mom, sometimes when I catch a ball, I feel like I catch it before I consciously see it. Me: Ever heard of blindsight? Kid: No? Me: So, in the 1970s, scientists noticed something strange. Some patients who are clinically blind could still detect motion and respond to things in front of them. For example, they could navigate obstacles with much more skill than what could be explained by pure chance, even though they insisted they couldn't see anything. . Kid: Were they only partially blind? Me: Nope. They were completely blind, but had specifically sustained injury to their primary visual cortex - the part of the brain that interprets signals from the eyes and gives us conscious visual experience. So, they couldn't see. er partBut then, how. . .? the brain that can detect moolder, deeper parts of the brain that can detect motion and help us orient to things without involving conscious sight. They don't create the "picture" we experience when we see, but they can still steer your actions. eye. MWhoaep. Pretty eye-opening, right? My kid rolled his eyes at that one. I'll let myselKid: See this, Mom? This is me rolling my eyes at that one. Me: Ooh, you got me.

🧪Well, here's the reference for today's conversation: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

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Wish you all a wonderful week ahead.

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Today's conversation was more of a thought experiment—just shooting the breeze with my kid and imagining what the vast universe out there might hold. There are no peer-reviewed papers out there saying anything of this sort.

#conversationswithkids #universe #momsky 🔭 #funny

If you're interested in reading more about spider vision, this is a great article on the subject:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32898492/
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Here are the references for today's conversation:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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In our home, Mom (that’s me) has always been the pun-dealer. But lately, my little one has started following in my footsteps… The puns are strong with this one.
#momsky #funny #humor

According to the book - A common saying when a child died was, "Thank goodness the Lord thought better of it". Conditions were so harsh that the death of an infant was often regarded as a blessing. We highly recommend The family Romanov is you have a teen that likes history

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Thanks to everyone who joined my channel this year. Wish you and your loved ones all a wonderful 2026 ahead.

Morning.

I'm curious. Have any of you talked to your kids about chatbots yet? If so, how are you approaching it?

Here are the references for today's conversation:
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#momsky #chatbots

Most will find this book offensive and frankly ridiculous by today's standard. But we thought it was a useful exercise to see what people were reading in the 1800s.
My kid was asking me the meaning of words throughout, so it's vocabulary building for the 8-12 age-range. Lexile 900L+
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When Mom tells a Dad joke 👇
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SoCal, where we live, is too far south to see the aurora, but the kids and I have been looking at a LOT of pics of the aurora this past week. Some day we would love to go see it in person.

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Congratulations, Jill. Wish you a lifetime of love and happiness.

Only if they're tidally locked with their planet. The lucky moons spin freely and so their partners can see all their sides. :)

Only if they're tidally locked with their planet. The lucky moons spin freely and so their partners can see all their sides. :)

Hello Darkness my old friend
I'll see you now at 4pm

#daylightsavings

Re-watching the 1st season with my oldest (he'd not seen it yet)! It's still good the 2nd time around.

Kid: Mom, there's only one night of the year that I can walk all night long.
Me: Yeah? Which night is that?
Kid: It's Halloween

#happyhalloween #thepowerofcandy