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VeeDub repair: Get in, get happy...

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Get in, Get happy - with VeeDub swag

.. but no fake Jamaican Patois with I and I..

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Career Options, pt. VIII: Trash Compactor

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Hier kommt der Schneemann..

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Oppa Onion Style

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Unser neues Lieblingslied.. Heino covert "Junge" von den Aerzten

Zwei der besten Exponenten des wahren deutschen Liedguts endlich vereint....

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Off with their heads... Erziehung - Die meisten Eltern belügen ihre Kinder zur Erziehung

Als Ursache für die Lügen vermuten die Forscher Stress bei den Eltern. Aussagen von Eltern aus den USA zeigten, dass diese sich meist aus Verzweiflung zu den Aussagen hinreißen ließen: "Wenn Eltern verrückt werden, dann tun sie, was immer nötig ist." Oder: "Die meisten Lügen, die ich meinen Kindern erzählt habe, dienten als letzter Ausweg und sind aus Verzweiflung geboren. Wenn ich sie anders dazu bringen könnte, zu tun, was ich sage, würde ich es tun."

Vor einigen Aussagen schreckt der Großteil der amerikanischen Eltern aber auch zurück: "Du musst deinen Teller leer essen, sonst bekommst du Pickel im ganzen Gesicht", nutzen nach eigenen Angaben nur gut sechs Prozent. Und ganz unten auf der Liste der beliebtesten Erziehunglügen rangiert bei Chinesen und Amerikanern eine der brutalsten Warnungen, die Drohung mit dem Tod: "Wenn du dich nicht benimmst, werfen wir dich den Fischen zum Fraß vor." Immerhin 21 Prozent der befragten chinesischen Eltern und gut vier Prozent der amerikanischen greifen zu diesem Satz.

mmmhh, müsste man mal probieren....

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Fahrn, fahrn, fahrn, auf der Autobahn

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Nick der Geisterfahrer....
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On the Big Boy slide...

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Always an option to regress: 'Adventurous' Woman Needed as Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby

Harvard geneticist George Church recently told Der Spiegel he's close to developing the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal, at which point all he'd need is an "adventurous human woman" — einen abenteuerlustigen weiblichen Menschen — to act as a surrogate mother.

It's not out of the question at all. As MIT Technology Review's Susan Young points out, scientists cloned an extinct subspecies of ibex in 2009. It died immediately, sure. But they still cloned it.

What would that entail? According to a 2008 study of a Neanderthal infant skeleton (from which the above image is taken), "the head of the Neanderthal newborn was somewhat longer than that of a human newborn because of its relatively robust face," and Neanderthal women generally had a wider birth canal than human women. Neanderthal birth was simpler than human birth, because Neanderthal infants didn't have to rotate to get to the birth canal, but otherwise the processes were very similar. (Even so, I imagine all but the most adventurous of human women would opt for a C-section in this case.)

Once the baby's out, though, you're in good shape — Neanderthal babies are thought to have grown much more quickly than their human counterparts. And Church seems to think that there'll be a Neanderthal craze, as he told Bloomberg Businessweek last year:

"We have lots of Neanderthal parts around the lab. We are creating Neanderthal cells. Let's say someone has a healthy, normal Neanderthal baby. Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there's one way to find out."

guess we'll stick with the IVF..

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