I would feel slightly guilty about such a young one turning to the dark side — literally — but if they’re interested in science in this age, better this than something squishy.
Behold, the power of astronomy!
This was total link bait, of course, but fair is fair: I found this on RobiNZ Personal Blog, via a Google trackback.
Cutest. Kid. Ever.
Besides The Little Astronomer, of course.
Every now again I get an email from DarkSyde, who writes for DailyKos. He wanted to write about supernovae and specifically neutrinos and Supernova 1987A, and asked what I knew. I told him I studied 87A for my PhD so I have maybe a little inside info. 
His blog post is now up at DK. It’s a pretty concise description of the goings-on in the core of an incipient exploding star (I’ll have more details — and the somewhat grim aftermath — in my book Death from the Skies! this October), and he ties it in with Bill Foster, a professional physicist running for Congress in Illinois.
You read that right. Foster is an actual scientist, and he wants to help run the government. He has a picture of Fermilab up on his main page and everything. How cool is that?
Head on over there and take a look; what better way is there to spend a Sunday morning?
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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