A website for young Einstein

From questions about red giant stars to the feeding habits of velociraptor, the probing inquiries of our seven year old often send my wife and I reeling. An investigative journalist by profession accustomed to Internet research, I find myself surfing cyberspace for answers, often with Noah Wallace Hessinger on my lap posing new questions with every new discovery. This blog started as an attempt to chronicle our quest for knowledge and an excuse for trying all the nifty science experiments in a book we just bought him at a school science fair. We’ll post photos as we go. Noah, who recently announced he wants to be an inventor, paleontologist, computer expert and veterinarian when he grows up, also enjoys visits to the Academy of Natural Sciences and Franklin Institute in Philly. We’ll take you along on those jaunts as well when feasible. If you have a question or comment—or a really neat science experiment to suggest—post it in the comments section. And now fasten your seat belts. A universe of discovery awaits…