Since yesterday was “Take Your Child to Work Day,” we put our daughters in charge of creating this week’s Brain Food. We may be biased, but we think that this might be the best Brain Food yet!
“HE JUST KEEPS RUNNING: MAN DRESSED AS FORREST GUMP RUNS BLAZING FAST GUINNESS RECORD” by Cathal Dennehy, runnersworld.com
“Rob Pope has been crossing the U.S. to mimic his favorite character’s journey.”
“HOW POETRY AND MATH INTERSECT” by Evelyn Lamb, smithsonianmag.com
“Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower’s seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad other ways that the realms of poetry and mathematics can intersect.”
“INFINITESIMAL ODDS: A SCIENTIST FINDS HER CHILD’S RARE ILLNESS STEMS FROM THE GENES SHE STUDIES” by Pam Belluck, nytimes.com
“It is an astounding story,” Dr. Riddle said. “A basic researcher working on something that might help humanity, and it turns out it directly affects her child.”
“WHY DO CATS ACT SO WEIRD?” by Tony Buffington, ted.com
“They’re cute, they’re lovable, and judging by the 26 billion views on over 2 million YouTube videos of them, one thing is certain: cats are very entertaining. But their strange feline behaviors, both amusing and baffling, leave many of us asking: Why do cats do that? Tony Buffington explains the science behind some of your cat’s strangest behaviors.”
“HOW 1.7 BILLION STARS WERE MAPPED WITH DAZZLING 3-D” by Nadia Drake, news.nationalgeographic.com
“More than a billion twinkling stars, drifting lazily across the sky as both Earth and our home galaxy revolve, have been mapped in 3-D by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite.”
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