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Understanding how to measure your child against the development milestones is critical to them working properly! You might be a parent who didn’t realize the original checklists were based on 50% data (meaning only half of children at that age should meet the development goal). You might be a parent who did know this butContinue reading “Development Milestone Updates”

🏆Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 goes to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for their discovery and development of organic catalysts (organocatalysis). We rarely consider how the materials we use everyday are made. Unless it’s a completely raw material, it was synthesized by chemical reaction in a manufacturing plant. Organic chemists are the masterminds behind theseContinue reading “Nobel Prize: Chemistry 2021”

🏆Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 goes to Syukuro Manabe & Klaus Hasselmann for their improvement of our understanding of climate change, and to Giorgio Parisi for his enormous contributions to understanding random phenomena. We all hear about climate change on a daily basis. It’s likely that the majority of people don’t fully understand what thatContinue reading “Nobel Prize: Physics 2021”

🏆Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 goes to David Julius & Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. Do you take your senses for granted? Have you ever considered how it is that you are able to discern surface textures with your fingertips or feel a hug? Do you knowContinue reading “Nobel Prize: Physiology or Medicine 2021”

Welcome! I’m doing something a bit different here today and introducing myself. I know I don’t show my face around here often because honestly I’m just not that comfortable with it (yet?)! I also want to keep the focus on science art. But I recognize how important it is to know who you’re getting yourContinue reading “Welcome!”

The Apgar score, developed by Dr. Virginia Apgar in 1952, is a quick way to quantify the health of a newborn baby after birth. The score is determined by evaluating 5 different criteria, each on a scale of 0-2, and summing the scores. Interestingly, the 5 criteria are summarized using a backronym (acronym assigned toContinue reading “APGAR Score”

Love is such a beautiful part of life and it never hurts to know a little more about how it works. Swipe through to see the chemicals involved in the stages of romance and which parts of the brain either produce them or are influenced by them. Stage 1 is the very initial physical attractionContinue reading “Science of Love”

The knee joint, filled with synovial fluid, is a modified hinge joint. This means it allows a small degree of rotation on top of both flexion and extension. There are two articulating surfaces in the knee joint (meaning points of contact between bone surfaces). The first is the tibiofemoral – tibia (bone of the lowerContinue reading “Knee Joint Art”

Science of Cooking Part 3! Today we’re talking the Maillard (my-YAR) Reaction – amino acids (protein) + sugar + heat = browning effect in your food. Seared steak and the crust on bread are two very obvious examples of this in the kitchen. The example I use here is a toasted marshmallow, because it isContinue reading “Maillard Reaction”