last edited 2012
Salutations
This page is simply a convenient place for me to list my personal links,
rather than my professional page, which is found HERE.
I am a faculty member of the
Chemistry Department at the
University of Washington in Seattle.
My background is in biological physics; my Ph.D. is in physics from Princeton University with Sol Gruner. At Princeton I
studied how the lipid composition of a membrane altered
the activity of an ion channel in that membrane using voltage-clamping
and x-ray scattering. I then became a post-doc with Joe
Zasadzinski back when he was at the University of California at Santa
Barbara. There, I looked at other membrane and surfactant systems with
electron microscopy. I did a second postdoc at Stanford with Harden
McConnell and studied lipids in monolayers: how the miscibility
critical point and the propensity for complex formation depend on lipid
composition. I have been a faculty member at the University of Washington
since 2000.
UW and Seattle
Travel
Kid Stuff
Pleasant ways to spend time that I don't actually have
Box of Happy
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School snow-day listings (search for your district)
Seattle public schools online communication ("The Source")
Free Family Fun Day at the Wing Luke Museum (third Saturdays)
Free first Saturdays at the Asian Art Museum
Folk Life Festival (Late May)
Seattle Science Festival (June)
Burke Museum day camp
UW Botanic Gardens, 1st-6th grade, 15% discount to UW
Woodland Park Zoo Camps
UCDS Summer Camps
Pacific Science Center (K-9)
Seattle Aquarium
Camp ZinZanni
UW Summer Youth Programs day camp
Arena Sports Soccer Camp
UW Sports Camps
YMCA
Stone Soup Theater Only 9am-12 until can read well.
Dance Fremont summer program
The Center for Wooden Boats (ages 9+)
Girls Leadership Institute, closest is in Bay Area
Girls Rock Camp in Portland (ages 8-17, registration open Jan 1)
iD Tech Camps STEM (ages 7-17, held at UW)
Wilderness Awareness School Camp Overnight camp for ages 11+. Day camps from 6-12, but far away.
Robinson Center summer program (5th-10th grade)
Center for Talented Youth (after Grade 5, take test for eligibility, closest is in CA)
UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars (Grades 5-6, Grades 7-10)
NOAA Science Camp for Middle Schoolers (Grades 7-8)
NOAA Junior Leadership Program Camp (Grades 9-12)
Microsoft Digigirlz Day and High Tech Camp (High School)
Girls Adventures in Math, Eng, and Sci (U of Illinois) (entering Grades 9-12)
Summer Institute for Mathematics at UW (High school, after 3 yrs high school math)
Washington Business Week (grade 9-12, highly recommended by Kat D.)
Stone Soup Theater
Woodland Park Zoo
Pacific Science Center
Camp ZinZanni
Arena Sports
Quadrilla Twist and Rail Marble Run,
Maze Ways Cat and Mouse,
Fire Escape,
Klutz paper airplanes,
ThinkFun Hoppers,
HowToons: Tools of Mass Construction AND Marshmallow Shooter Kit,
Eric Carle books in Spanish,
The Big Tree Gang.
Snap Circuits, Top Trumps, Quirkle,
Immune Attack by Federation of American Scientists (PC only?),
Crayon Physics (PC, not Mac yet),
Fantastic Contraption physics game (yes, for Mac too),
Prehistoric Park,
World of Goo (recommended by Sarah Veatch)
Spectrum Dance Theater
eXit SPACE young dancer program
Feminist Karate Union. Also heard good things about Washington Karate Assn, Ballard Dojo (Greenwood)
Mike and Benk's List (PDF).
Guy: Mouse Guard comic books, Reader Rabbit CD-ROMs (numeracy too), WII-Lego StarWars.
Deborah's Apps: FingerPhysics, TanZen lite, circular TTT (circular tic tac toe), jirbo says (simon says), jellycar2 (8-9 yrs), artilect (8-9).
New Beginnings - Battered women and their children, 206-926-3034.
Baby Boutique - For homeless families, 206-902-4270.
West Side Baby - Clothing and toys for infants in homeless and low-income families, 206-767-1662.
Treehouse - For foster kids
Brett (The Mitten); Carle (Pancakes, Pancakes); Hutchins (A Second Is a Hiccup); Sendak (Little Bear, Where the Wild Things Are);
Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggie), Calef Brown (poems); Mr. Wolf and the Enormous Turnip;
Math Start / Stuart Murphy (e.g. Missing Mittens)
Macaulay: (Castle, Cathedral, City, Mill, Mosque, Pyramid, Rome Antics, Ship, Underground),
Howtoons
Online lists of recommendations for kid lit: Berkeley parent's network for
5-6 year olds,
7-9 year olds,
Age appropriate for advanced readers,
including Discussion of gender issues.
More for advanced readers (with summaries).
Kid lit that has won awards.
NPR kid lit ages 9+.
NPR's 100 best teen novels
Set, Tangoes, Rivers Roads and Rails, ThinkFun River Crossing, ThinkFun Rush Hour, ThinkFun Chocolate Fix,
ThinkFun Tilt, ThinkFun Safari Undercover,
Castle Logix,
Lab coat and goggles for 18-inch doll,
Kid-friendly Microscope,
or the "Duoscope" microscope by My First Lab (recommended by Kit!)
Math Girl (Number Garden and Addition House), Motion Math (Hungry Fish, Zoom, and Wings)
Schoolhouse Rock, TMBG Here Come the ABCs, TMBG Here come the 123s, TMBG Here Comes Science, Electric Company, Mr. Wizard,
Anything by Attenborough (e.g. Life of Birds)
OK Go's Three Primary Colors
I love to rhyme all of the time
TMBG "Big Box of Free Things"
6 Seattle Kindie Rock Bands
Caspar Babypants
Recess Monkey
Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child and its
Audio Archives
Bill and Ella
Science Fair
Self-defense at "Just Yell Fire!"
Monterrey Aquarium Critter Cards
Oregon Coast Aquarium Outreach Program Activities: see
"From Tube Feet to Tentacles", etc.
BBC numeracy and
literacy video games
BBC telling time video games (bilingual Welsh)
"Primary Resources" (UK)
BBC printable worksheets for 3-letter words
Cootie Catcher with 3-letter phonetic words.
1st grade Math worksheets
Addition worksheets
1st grade English worksheets
Telegraph Gridclub (5-12)
Cambridge University Math Games and Enrichment (5-19)
DuPage Children's Museum Math Challenges
UCSB math circle problems
Math for love (Seattle) and its salon
Squares of Differences
One-Two Nim Game
Khan Academy
Instructables Easy Squiggle Bot
Science toys to make with kids
Science activities from Zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom
Plate Tectonics simplified
Activity pages at the Smithsonian
National Geographic Animal sounds and videos and
Animal coloring pages
Time for Kids
Singing Science Records
Beginning piano music
In B flat
Poisson Rouge: Snakes and Ladders,
Dot-to-Dot,
Matching,
Underwater Zones,
Alphabet Pictures,
Toybox.
Between the Lions games: Smartydoors,
The quiet machine,
hopposites,
skyriding...
Word Girl MissPower game
American Sign Language, Numbers 1-10
American Sign Language, Letters, Video1,
Video2,
and Video3
American Sign Language Dictionaries:
Signing Savvy,
My Smart Hands (for kids).
Ages 0-100 in 150 seconds
Sid the Science Kid (pbs)
Electric company games
Beginner origami for kids
Spanish: Search for El Perro Y El Gato on YouTube
The Kid Should See This (blog)
Nutcracker Ballet (BBC Royal Opera House)
Basic science videos: What is a flame?,
Why does sweat stink?,
What is hemoglobin?
CDC epidemiology puzzle iPad app
Reign of Aquaria
Rookie Mag for teens
Digigirlz online instructions for podcast and web design
Pet Watch (Is your exotic pet eco-friendly or a terror?)

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