January 6th is my mother’s birthday. As a present, I decided to showcase the first scientist I ever knew—one who I met before I was even born. Arleen Garfinkle (one day to be Arleen Miller) entered graduate school at the University of Colorado in the fall of 1973 and graduated in 1979. During that time she developed a battery of tests designed to track a child’s numerical and logical reasoning skills, based on the theories of psychologist Jean Piaget. Once she developed the test, she gave it (and several other tests) to over 200 pairs of twins aged four through eight and
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How I Got Interested in Physics and in STEM
The Google+ community, +STEM on Google+ Community, is asking people to share how they got interested in STEM. The format is a video. I decided that for this week, I’d record such a video and share it with you all. This is the first time I’ve ever done any kind of video recording, so this was a new experience for me. Hope you like it!