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I’m doing a lot of research right now into being present in parenting, specifically as a way of practicing the Presence of God. My wife and I are really torn up by our lack of Christianity when it comes to parenting. This makes parenting the perfect place to confront my always-future-looking habit of anticipation which is the focus of my current fast. One framework that is helping is Daniel Siegel’s 4 S’s of Showing Up: Safety Parent protects your child from outward harm. The parent tries their best not to be the source of fear or disorientation. Seen Parent sees…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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I use this framework a lot to talk about all types of relationships: marriage, friendship, spirituality, etc. It can help to clarify what’s happening in a relationship and how to build on one level to reach deeper levels. 1. Law When people have proximity but do not know or trust each other, they relate on the level of law: rules which are formal or informal, but that do not require the revelation of individual interests. 2. Negotiation When people have proximity and begin to know and trust each other, but must represent their own interests, they relate on the level…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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You know the “beaded chain fountain” experiment? Well, here’s a video about it and how it works: Turns out that unique structure of the beaded chain causes the each link to push off the bottom of the beaker just before it takes off feeding extra force up the chain to make it leap out. The same effect in reverse happens when each link hits the floor: it tags down on the chain with a tiny whiplash-like effect. When Max Planck was trying to understand electromagnetism in the 1890s and 1900s, he though of the radiation coming from every atom as…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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The other day @blackout introduced our family to “Hexagons Are The Bestigons”, a truly nerdy homage to an astounding polygon that is — as a piece of geek-art — work of extraordinary poetic magnitude. Before I say more, you should see it for yourself. If you’ve seen it before, you know you want to see it again: As CGP Gray points out, one of the most powerful properties of hexagons is their ability to for a particular tessellation. Tessellation can also be called “tiling” — as if you were laying tiles of the shape on a flat surface like a…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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Some pretty cool people tipped us off to TheKidShouldSeeThis.com, a site that offers curated videos for kids and adults mostly on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) topics. Since they carefully filter the choices, their site is more SFW and kid-friendly than YouTube, so it’s a great choice when anyone in the family needs a cool-and-brainy video fix. Hope over and check the site out and tell us what you think in the comments section.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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Scientists can now grow a mouse embryo up to half of its gestational cycle (the amount of time it spends in its mother’s womb) in a glass jar. They say they’d like to soon do this with human embryos as well. While this is an impressive accomplishment, one has to wonder if maybe they aren’t helping The Machines get a little closer to turning us all into coppertops. Read This: A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb\u2014humans could be next | MIT Technology Review What do you think? Is this a good line of research that will…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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The other day, Etcetera and I were talking about black holes (again). He was talking about the effects at the event horizon and how something like a Dyson-sphere of mirrors could be used to construct a black hole bomb. I was talking about how black holes are so dense, they represent a place in the universe where space-time kind of unravels. Later, I ran across a great article that illustrates this point: “The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole” by Amanda Gefter of BBC Earth. Gefter does a great job of clearing up some of the…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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For the next couple of Science Tuesdays, I’d like to explore standard deviation — an important concept in statistics, and therefore an important idea for science and thinking about systems. I started explaining that, in a random system where all things are equal, the normal distribution expects things to spread out according to a bell-shaped curve. This can be shown by a Galton Board, a.k.a. Bean Machine: Standard deviation is how much an actual group of things varies in its distribution from the normal distribution. The higher the standard deviation, the larger the difference from the normal distribution expected. I…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":1}