The Aunt and her Mad Science

My baby sister Vicky came home from college this weekend to spend time with her boyfriend and to shrink her little niece's head.

Sam is blurry because she is IN MOTION. You really can't do much about that sort of thing. A four year old is a high-speed version of brownian motion. Vicky was having her perform some kinda equivalency test involving quantity and mass conservation.


See, there are the same number of green as red chips. But when the red chips are spread out, the four year old brain thinks there are more red than green. Normal, but wrong.


See? There really are the same number of red and green ships. Mmmm..... makes me want salsa.


The happy, yet perplexed, Samantha.


Can you tell these represent the same quantity of play-doh? Moments before this shot they were globes. At that time, Sam noted they were the same size. Despite the fact that Sam participated and watched the modification to the shape of this stuff, she was incapable of understanding that the resulting shapes were still equivalent.




Next time, I'll try to get a shot of my sister.
I was already 13 when she was born of my mother, and she is now a strikingly beautiful almost-20 year old woman.
Weird....