Links for 2011-05-09

"Before I became a parent, friends and strangers alike would tell me, "You have no idea how much your life will change with the arrival of a baby." I've found my transition to parenthood has been less disruptive than predicted. I credit that, in part, to being an experimental physicist. Here are five ways in which my experience as an experimental physicist helped prepare me to be a new parent."

When stereotypes collide.