by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
From Seattle’s Odessa Brown clinic, Sally James reports on children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the South Seattle Emerald (@SoSeattleEmerald), Sally talks with pediatrician Dr. Ben Danielson about how he helps children and families deal with...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Rebecca Heisman didn’t expect her family’s first camping trip with their 13-month-old son to be relaxing. And it wasn’t. But, as Rebecca writes in High Country News, her second thoughts weren’t because of her kid’s high-energy curiosity on the trail. Instead, the trip...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2015 | ScienceWire
Preschoolers practice transitive inference, Jane Hu @jane_c_hu discovered. In research done at UC Berkeley, now published in Cognitive Development, Jane and colleagues used puppets to observe kids making sophisticated conclusions about preferences by watching others....
by Matt Vivion | Feb 12, 2014 | Past Events
Are poop jokes over-used? Does the word “DNA” need to be defined? Is particle physics just too hard to explain? These are the kinds of questions that come up when writing about science for kids. Panelists Emily Krieger, Beth Geiger, Eric Chudler and David...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
Hope is part of nature, and part of human nature, writes Adrienne Ross Scanlan in an essay about navigating life. Adrienne’s life is filled with courageous children with serious illness—children who also love to go to Green Lake and look for chickadees. Adrienne is an...
