Thank you very much for this enjoyable respite!

Yea! Thanks for the updates...

Aww.. she's adorable! Thx for sharing with us!

This is the kind of in-school activity that turns children on to science! Way to go, teacher!

Now that Chaos has been duly named, it obviously realizes it's time to pupate and create the Butterfly Effect!

From Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick:

Now that science is looking, chaos seems to be everywhere... Chaos breaks across the lines that separate scientific disciplines... Chaos... makes strong claims about the universal behavior of complexity. The first chaos theorists, the scientists who set the discipline in motion, shared certain sensibilities. They had an eye for pattern, especially pattern that appeared on different scales at the same time. They had a taste for randomness and complexity, for jagged edges and sudden leaps. Believers in chaos--and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists--speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.

Thanks for sharing these updates! (The pictures and the videos are great.)

The Republican war on caterpillars has gone too far.

Too smart and too funny, Steve, a very dangerous combination to have in a child :)

You're going to have your hands full with that one.

Finally something that crawls on its belly that is not a GOP running for office.

Lord knows I love ranting about the wingnuts and putting down the trolls, but these little interludes are like a drink of cold, clean water after a hot day mucking a pig sty. Thank you.