Simon Seville

A person who plays the saxophone is commonly referred to as a saxophonist, or a saxist.

The first three months of being a parent can be some of the most challenging. So much changes as you get to know your baby, while trying to look after yourself as well. This is something I’ve put together that explains what you can expect as you adjust to having a new baby at home, as well as extra interesting science facts.

1. Adjusting to less sleep

Babies are not born knowing the difference between the natural day and night cycle, this typically develops at around three months old. Until then, it’s quite normal for babies to cry and sleep in short bursts. Putting babies on a schedule during this time isn’t effective and isn’t recommended. It’s best to let them sleep when they need to. I vaguely remember my chipmunk parents putting my brothers and I to sleep at different times instead of a fixed schedule.

As a new parent you will lose a lot of sleep. It’s important to take care of yourself. It’s scientifically proven that new mothers lose roughly 2 hours of sleep per night during the first five months, which is equivalent to missing hundreds of hours of sleep.

2. Mammals carry children on the left

Whether or not you are right or left handed, human mothers tend to carry their child on the left side of their body, especially in early months. This has to do with the brain’s layout - sensory information on the left side of the brain is processed on the right side. Emotions are also processed on the right hemisphere of the brain so observing the baby by holding it on the left side actually helps transmit social information to the right side more efficiently. Chipmunks carry their babies (pups) by the scruff of their neck, and the babies instinctually curl into a protective ball to make relocation easier.

3. Bottle feeding

Human mothers have been bottle-feeding since prehistory. Scientists analyzed ancient clay vessels from graves in germany, and they found the residue of milk from hoofed animals and officially identified these vessels as primitive baby bottles. The earliest date back more than 7,000 years

While we’re on the topic of the past, the ice age made mothers evolve better milk. Scientists suspect that a tweak to human’s breast tissue helped some populations survive the last ice age.

Roughly 20,000 years ago, vital vitamin D would have been increasingly difficult for babies dwelling at far-northern latitudes to harvest through sunlight and exposed skin. Luckily a genetic mutation arose in mothers’ breast ducts that some scientists think allowed for critical nutrients to flow into infants in vitamin D-deficient conditions.

Extra facts.

When breastfeeding, the hormones that are released actually help the uterus shrink back to its pre-pregnancy size. Milk is filled with special components that fight infections and cut down on swelling. My brothers and I were born blind, hairless and very small, and the nutrients in the milk we drank helped us grow and kept us healthy.

Babies are actually born with 300 bones, that’s 94 more than adults. Many of these bones are actually flexible cartilage which serve an important purpose - making delivery easier. These bones fuse together during development.

They are also born without kneecaps. They are soft and made of cartilage, and don’t fully harden until around 6-12 months.

General Beige: A broad category of warm, pale neutrals that spans from creamy off-whites to sandy, light browns. It often has cool, gray, or yellow undertones depending on the specific paint or textile.

Almond: A defined, buttery off-white that features pale, soft notes of pink and brown, directly mimicking the hue of the blanched nut. It sits right in the middle between cream and standard beige, appearing slightly warmer and rosier.

Here is the exact hex code and details for the colour almond.

A healthy immune system typically destroys mold spores before they can grow, but certain conditions allow fungi to take hold in the body.

The most common way mold enters the body is through the sinuses by inhaling spores which then go into your lungs. Once inside, molds like Aspergillus can form "fungal balls" in the lungs or cause chronic sinusitis.

While it’s rare molds can also colonize the bowels in patients with severely weakened immune systems.

What happens when your body grows mold? Well, it can cause tissue damage, bleeding and systemic illness. There is a cure, they require powerful prescription antifungal medication.

We do actually know why music ‘happens.’

Music happens because it physically and psychologically satisfies our need for connection, pattern recognition, and emotional regulation. At its core, music combines the mathematical beauty of sound vibrations with human experiences, flooding the brain with dopamine and synchronizing our physical movements. Our brains process music as a complex puzzle of patterns and predictions. When you listen to a song, your brain actively tries to anticipate the next beat, melody, or chord. When those predictions are met or surprised, your brain releases dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward.

If we’re talking about the physics of sound:

If you are simply wet, it cannot harm you so you do not need to stop drop and roll.

You do, however, need to if any part of you is on fire. This includes hair, clothes, skin, etc.

This is a classic fire safety technique designed to extinguish flames if you are ever on fire.

• Stop

Stop what you are doing and don’t move or run, because this will fan the flames and cause the fire to grow larger.

• Drop

Drop to the floor; if possible, lie flat with your legs straight.

• Roll

Cover your face and mouth with your hands to protect them from the fire and smoke. Roll over and over like a worm until the flames are completely extinguished.

There’s actually a reason why it’s called “blue raspberry.” It was created by candy and snow cone makers in the 1950s to solve a color coding problem. Because popular flavours like cherry and strawberry were red they needed a new colour for raspberry. They used a blue dye which children found fun because it would dye their tongues blue.

The flavour is meant to mimic the taste of the ‘rubus leucodermis’ which is a wild dark purple berry sometimes called the blue raspberry.

The first three months of being a parent can be some of the most challenging. So much changes as you get to know your baby, while trying to look after yourself as well. This is something I’ve put together that explains what you can expect as you adjust to having a new baby at home, as well as extra interesting science facts.

1. Adjusting to less sleep

Babies are not born knowing the difference between the natural day and night cycle, this typically develops at around three months old. Until then, it’s quite normal for babies to cry and sleep in short bursts. Putting babies on a schedule during this time isn’t effective and isn’t recommended. It’s best to let them sleep when they need to. I vaguely remember my chipmunk parents putting my brothers and I to sleep at different times instead of a fixed schedule.

As a new parent you will lose a lot of sleep. It’s important to take care of yourself. It’s scientifically proven that new mothers lose roughly 2 hours of sleep per night during the first five months, which is equivalent to missing hundreds of hours of sleep.

2. Mammals carry children on the left

Whether or not you are right or left handed, human mothers tend to carry their child on the left side of their body, especially in early months. This has to do with the brain’s layout - sensory information on the left side of the brain is processed on the right side. Emotions are also processed on the right hemisphere of the brain so observing the baby by holding it on the left side actually helps transmit social information to the right side more efficiently. Chipmunks carry their babies (pups) by the scruff of their neck, and the babies instinctually curl into a protective ball to make relocation easier.

3. Bottle feeding

Human mothers have been bottle-feeding since prehistory. Scientists analyzed ancient clay vessels from graves in germany, and they found the residue of milk from hoofed animals and officially identified these vessels as primitive baby bottles. The earliest date back more than 7,000 years

While we’re on the topic of the past, the ice age made mothers evolve better milk. Scientists suspect that a tweak to human’s breast tissue helped some populations survive the last ice age.

Roughly 20,000 years ago, vital vitamin D would have been increasingly difficult for babies dwelling at far-northern latitudes to harvest through sunlight and exposed skin. Luckily a genetic mutation arose in mothers’ breast ducts that some scientists think allowed for critical nutrients to flow into infants in vitamin D-deficient conditions.

Extra facts.

When breastfeeding, the hormones that are released actually help the uterus shrink back to its pre-pregnancy size. Milk is filled with special components that fight infections and cut down on swelling. My brothers and I were born blind, hairless and very small, and the nutrients in the milk we drank helped us grow and kept us healthy.

Babies are actually born with 300 bones, that’s 94 more than adults. Many of these bones are actually flexible cartilage which serve an important purpose - making delivery easier. These bones fuse together during development.

They are also born without kneecaps. They are soft and made of cartilage, and don’t fully harden until around 6-12 months.

NASA rovers and landers such as Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance have captured images of Martian sunsets. These photos are possible thanks to cameras equipped on these robotic explorers, which are capable of surviving and operating on the Martian surface.

In 2005, NASA’s Spirit rover took the first color images of a Martian sunset.

These sunsets appear blue near the Sun and reddish farther away — the opposite of Earth — due to the way Martian dust scatters sunlight in the thin atmosphere.

Humans have wondered about the skies of other planets for millennia, but only in the 21st century have we gained the technology to literally see what a sunset looks like on another world.