Thursday, May 22, 2008

Scientist Abbie

Like Tess, Abbie had a really good school year this year (school is out next week, and both of the girls are glad about that)...
Abbie was given a medal for finishing in third place in the science fair for the second grade. Her experiment involved finding areas of sensitivity on people's arm. Or rather, people's fingers, hands, forearms and upper arms.
She taped from paper clips to some index cards, made people hide their eyes, then would ask them if they felt one clip or two. Turns out, the higher up on your arm you go, the less sensitive you are. The fingers are more sensitive than the palm, the palm more sensitive than the forearm, the forearm more sensitive than the upper arm, etc.
What this has to do with what kind of year the Longhorns will have in football is unclear.

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