Kid Scientist » Fun Stuff http://kidscientist.com The no-nonsense science blog for kids Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Oscar-Winner Natalie Portman was a Kid Scientist http://kidscientist.com/236/oscar-winner-natalie-portman-was-a-kid-scientist/ http://kidscientist.com/236/oscar-winner-natalie-portman-was-a-kid-scientist/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:48:55 +0000 jeffrey http://kidscientist.com/?p=236 Related Posts
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]]> Here’s a story from the New York Times about Natalie Portman, the actress you may remember as Princess Amidala from Star Wars Episodes I, II and III. Apparently she was quite the kid scientist in high school; she was a semifinalist in the national Intel Science Talent search!

Portman is 29 years old now and is about to have a baby of her own. Last night she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, playing a ballerina in a film called “Black Swan”. This just goes to show that you don’t have to choose between being a princess, a ballerina, or a scientist — you can be all three if you want!

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One of our favorite shows is Mythbusters on The Discovery Channel. If you haven’t seen it, the guys (and Kari!) test a few urban myths and legends each week (like, would a house full of exploding popcorn make the windows bust out?) and proclaim them “Confirmed” or “Busted”. If you don’t get The Discovery Channel, you can see some videos here.

As big Mythbusters fans, we really had fun reading Geek Dad’s “Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned from Mythbusters“. “If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Overdoing” sounds pretty familiar to us!

We got to see Adam and Jamie in San Francisco a couple of years ago, which is where the picture above was taken.

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]]> From Appendages to Zombies, this set of alphabet blocks is just the thing for the aspiring mad scientist.



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