Friday, January 11, 2013

January 11: The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe

The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe:

My two-year-old daughter doesn't think of stars as huge bodies of flaming gas millions of miles away. She thinks of them as little five-pointed symbols that live inside books and on top of Christmas trees. In similar fashion, she knows that there's a moon in the sky but also thinks the glowing circles formed by domed light fixtures in our home are also moons. Getting glimpses of how she's thinking about the universe is almost unbearably cute. And so is Paper Galaxy, which manages to cast the cosmos as a giant playground. More »