totes working at a lab this summer. eff tee dubs.

My six year old has a frightening interest in human anatomy…would watch kidney transplants and knee replacements on Discovery with me at age 3 (while asking “why”…and understanding), and for Christmas when he was 4, Dad and I decided to get him some human body books. One aimed at about a 9 year old, for now, and an undergrad level text for later. The boy never even opened the kiddie book, and has read the other one (on his own) cover to cover. A couple times.

Earlier today I heard him and my husband discussing string theory…

You sure this one wasn’t made just to have a badge you could give a weird acronym (in this case, SACMOSS)?

My wife and I both should have this one. When we were in grade school, while the other kids were playing tag or hopscotch, we were sitting around with other, well, nerds, discussing things like black holes and superconductivity.

I teach pre-k in a low-income neighborhood. As a science lesson, we used the scientific method to figure out what would happen when we put mentos into a 2 liter of diet soda. I got a lot of, “It will turn (insert color)” and “It will turn to water.”

Then, one of my students raises her hands and says, “I think it will turn into a gas.”

She’s four years old.

Another time, I was showing some 5-year olds a video of a gibbon smacking around two tigers. When another teacher asked what the monkey was doing, a student said, “He’s not a monkey! He’s an ape. Monkeys have tails and apes don’t. He’s a gibbon.”

Yes, I am doing my part by creating budding scientists.

I’m 12 years old and I’m going to be an astrobiologist when I grow up and I’m going to Space Academy in July and I kinda know what string theory is and I follow BoingBoing and read too many books and I’m tech support for my house and all sorts of other stuff.

Do I qualify or am I to old?