Holy smokes, y'all. Today's "Conversations on the way to School" was overwhelming. Gabe has been reading the book Death from the Skies - which is about demystifying the scientific principles at work behind some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities, and gives us the odds that any of them will step out of the realm of sci-fi to disrupt our quiet corner of the cosmos (description from the back cover of the book!).
We started off with my 4th grader's States and Capitals test quizzing and morphed to Nuclear fusion, what bones and blood are made of (carbon from supernovas?), how the world could end, how our bodies are related to supernovas.
We then went into the daily car talk, which today was SUVs vs. Sedans vs. Coupes, a bit on anxiety disorders, and finished up with a rousing, real time demonstration on how the ADD mind works and how it is like random link clicking on Wikipedia.
Comments