Posts Tagged ‘research’
To Shampoo or Not to Shampoo… ?
My wife was kind enough to point me towards a news article (appearing from various news sources) today about a supposed connection between baby care products such as shampoos, lotions, and powders and a common — though marginally studied — group of chemicals known as phthalates. I started scanning some of these alarmist-style news reports and immediately was struck by the typical “ohmygods the sky is falling” reaction of some — many — of the articles.
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Gaming and Critical Thought (Survey)
I’ve started writing a series of posts about gaming and critical thought in kids. When I think of gaming — as I’m sure do many others — I think of cracking open a cardboard box and extracting a board, dice, cards, tokens, bits, pieces, and often a crisp sheet of rules. But I don’t want to limit my definition to that. A handful of dice, a deck of cards, or a pencil and paper can be the basis for the simplest game. And it goes from there to anything increasingly more complex than that…
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Science Fair: The Plant Killer
In 2006 a website and email forward emerged online with the claims that the author’s grand-daughter had performed a science fair project comparing the effects two kinds of water on common house plants. The comparison made was between two kinds of boiled water; stove top and microwave. And the conclusions drawn claimed a notable difference in the observed outcomes; Water that had been boiled on the stove top (then cooled) allowed for normal plant growth, while water that had been boiled in the microwave (then cooled) killed the plants. Critical thought alarms went off around the world: Prove it!
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The skep/dad blog is a place for rational, science-minded fathers to express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas about bringing up kids to be critical thinking adults in a world filled with superstition, mysticism, and pseudoscience.
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