Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of 
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found There are less than two weeks of Minnow photos remaining before the grand finale. A couple of donors haven't yet made specific photo requests, leaving me with a lot of leeway in picking photos. If you donated to my DonorsChoose challenge and haven't requested a subject, there's still time.
Here's a photo from the archives (taken in June).
Actually, the pink is the antibiotic (for an ear infection) she managed to spit back out. I suppose I could have done some spectrometry and figured out what fraction of the teaspoon dose she wasn't getting, but instead I did the laundry and was relieved to discover that it washes right out. Scientist meets mommy.
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Hmmm. I've worn antibiotic stains that look like that, but in my case the patient was a cat. We learned that to actually get the stuff to stay in her, it had to be injected down her throat with a (needle-less) syringe. Not a technique I'd care to inflict on humans!
On a more helpful note, my mother learned early on that almost anything could be gotten down my throat if it was mixed with orange juice.
Posted by: Karen | November 26, 2007 8:26 PM
We were just reading this book tonight. Bean likes the sound I make when I make the pink ink disappear...
Posted by: ScienceMama | November 26, 2007 11:16 PM
I'm sorry but I can't get over how CUTE she is!
Posted by: academic vixen | November 27, 2007 11:35 AM
But she didn't look like she wasn't unwell! :D
Posted by: pelf | November 29, 2007 2:51 AM
I'm sorry, the previous comment should read:
But she didn't look like she was unwell! :D
Posted by: pelf | November 29, 2007 2:52 AM