

Raising a Scientist
I’m pretty sure that my son, Finn, is going to grow up to be a scientist… or a lawyer. He’s the best seven-year-old negotiator that I’ve met. But that’s because I’m the one making him go to bed, cutting off the sugar, and regulating his natural object collections to only one corner of our dining table. I do try to encourage his scientific notions, despite the mess it creates. Currently on the dining table we have a makeshift fish tank, home to a minnow named Lightning that Fi