Baby it's windy outside

Ok, that isn't really the way the song goes. But, if it is windy outside, the jet stream probably dipped south over LA.

I don't get string theory

I always harbored a secret shame. I am too shallow to understand why I should care about string theory. Now you, too, can read why string theory is also irrelevant to your life. Quantum mechanics, in contrast, gets a great plug in this article. You can test it again and again and it just works.

Twins separated at birth

Does Iris have a twin that I don't know about? But then, it would have been very inattentive of me not to notice giving birth to twins. As this blog title says, I am a bad mom... (Her yoga teacher pointed out this cover to me. Another teacher at her school assumed that Iris was the cover child.)