Colorful Children's Dishes - Food Inspiration

The facebook page Fun Kid Food has lots of lovely inspiration photos on how to arrange appealing children's food. The dishes are interesting visually but simple enough that no instructions are needed. It seems that the process of arranging the food is quite obvious - also, it seems one could do a lot of substitutions with produce they have on hand at the moment. Like the page on facebook if you wish to see the updates in your newsfeed. Hope your little ones enjoy!

Post by Fun Kid Food.

 

Post by Fun Kid Food.

Post by Fun Kid Food.

Post by Fun Kid Food.

2014 - A Snowy New York City Winter

We had an incredible amount of snowstorms in the city this winter season. The children have been dolled up in snowsuits at least a few times and taken to Central Park to enjoy the snow in its full glory. They never go over five minutes of play before they start complaining of being wet and cold - maybe because they are too small yet to keep their gloves on fully. On the upside, they enjoy admiring the pretty, snowed on city. Here, JV is holding a pair of binoculars, getting ready to survey the neighborhood while explaining to his brother that he needs to wait his turn. Which finally came after a very long wait. 

     

 

Photo Credits: Delia T.

Simple Trick for Estimating Children's Weight

It's one of those tricks one learns in Med School, when you are bombarded with all kinds of information and charged with remembering it all. Eeeck. It also is quite useful for a mom who wants to stop wasting those 30 precious extra seconds it requires to google, for the millionth time, the CDC growth charts due to "mom stress" inflicted by her child not eating well. ;)

Photo Credit: Residents - UCIrvineEM

Briefly, the Current State of Human Whole Genome Sequencing

 

The cost of sequencing a complete human genome has dropped in 2013 to an astounding low: $1000. Such technology improvements in DNA-sequencing technology (Illumina is the company behind it) are, for the first time in history, disproving Moore's Law (the computing industry's trend of doubling computer power every two years).

 At the moment, or, as of Feb. 19, 2014, there is a striking computational bottleneck - it costs a lot more to computer analyze the results of a sequencing run than the cost of the sequencing run itself. The sequencing run provides a code, your genome, made up of just 4 letters, A,C,T,G, 3 billion of them. But, without the analysis, the results are just a long string of randomly-arranged A,C,T,G, or, meaningless code. Kudos to the E.McNally scientific group who published a groundbreaking study today, aiming at eventually decreasing the cost of human whole genome sequence analysis to, drumroll... about $1000. #thebest2000dollarsiwilleverspend.