DADWAGON

Hey, did you know that little kids say funny things? Yes, it’s a scientific fact that children just developing their verbal and cognitive skills often say or do things that, while incorrect, demonstrate a certain level of accidental logic and profundity that amuses adults. The television networks picked up on this long ago, producing a [...]

Recently, I’ve come across further evidence—you might even call it incontrovertible proof—of DadWagon’s influence over American parenting. Exhibit one is this child, Ellie (not to be confused with Theodore’s child), and her amazing vocabulary: The other, worth checking out once you’ve stopped giggling at that video, is this one, in which a toddler demonstrates her [...]

A Brooklyn dad and his kid performed a flat-out-awesome science experiment: They built a little foam capsule containing an HD video camera and an iPhone (for its GPS capabilities), tied it to a group of weather balloons, and sent it up into space. More here, with links, where I wrote about it on Friday.

The Daily Beast has posted a roundup of cockamamie-yet-entirely-believable studies that purport to tell us whether we’re predisposed to divorce. Risk factors include some obvious things (marriage before age 18; couples where one person wants kids much more than the other) and some not so obvious but plausible ones (women in the military; travel + [...]