how many times can a 3 year old say "I'm hungry" at bedtime?

Ok - what is this about because I have a 5 year old that does it too!!

With my in-laws in town this weekend, we all went out for dinner on Saturday. When it was time to leave, Dylan says "We are going to get on the Q train and then we are going home and then we are going to eat dinner."

When it was pointed out to him that we just ate dinner in the restaurant, his response was "I want to eat at home."

Kids = crazy.

Gene that allows growing a new head identified

British boffins say they have identified the key "smed-prop" gene which allows Planarian flatworms to regenerate any part of their body following an injury - even their brains. The discovery is seen as a step towards regeneration therapy for humans in future.

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The doc suggests that it may be possible in future to simply grow new organs and limbs for injuried or sick humans - even, perhaps, to repair their damaged brain in situ. This would be preferable to removing a duff brain and growing a new one, as happens when a planarian worm's head is cut off.

Eh?

The guy from Burn Notice -- he eats a lot of yogurt.

JUST TURNED 9! all I'm sayin.

halfway kidding. He doesn't do the hungry or thirsty thing at bedtime, but wanting one thing over and over for meals? yep. refusing to eat unless he gets it? yep. throwing fits unless he gets what he demands? yep. He actually seems to have turned a bit of a corner with all this toddler-like behavior and has calmed a bit. It is quite lovely and I have told him so. I think it is finally starting to click with him and he wants approval enough to curb behavior.

Mars Rovers Set to Break Red Planet Record

On Thursday, NASA's beleaguered Spirit rover could become the longest-running mission on the surface of Mars, surpassing the Viking 1 lander's record of six years and 116 days of operation on the Martian surface — if it's still alive, that is.

Spirit fell silent on Mars on March 31, when it skipped a planned communications session with Earth. It may be hibernating through the harsh Martian winter. But even if Spirit doesn't survive, its robotic twin Opportunity is poised to break the Mars mission record in early May.

Beating Viking's record, which NASA set in the 1980s, would be a major feat for a rover the size of a golf cart that was only supposed to last for three months and spent the past year stuck in Martian sand. The milestone would also be a welcome surprise to the team of scientists and engineers that have been commanding Spirit for these past six years.

Harriet M. Welsch was 11, and she had a tomato sandwich every single day for lunch, don't forget.

t makes out with Scrappy for being so ... Scrappy

We rearranged our desks this morning in my office and I'm now facing my co-worker head-on with only our laptops in-between us. Fortunately this is a co-worker I'm friends with, but it's still a little unnerving to be sitting face-to-face this close.

Signed, Give me back my cube, damnit. This open-plan thing blows.

(And no, there's not a good way to arrange the desks so we don't face each other. I stared at our space for a long time trying to figure one out.)

Dillo is usually too rambunctious to eat enough dinner at dinnertime, so sometimes he really is hungry. Also, he plays his daddy by asking for snacks at bedtime and dilly-dallying. This game does not work with mommy.