When you can't know what will happen, you try to fill that void with ideas and plans. It's what Maggie Mitchell did when she was pregnant with her first child. She imagined birth, and prepared for it best she could. But, plans often don't work out...

Venturing into the unknown

Why is physics often called "the mother of science?" Pulse host Maiken Scott talks with science writer Jennifer Ouellette, her blog is "cocktail party physics." http://twistedphysics.typepad.com 
Jennifer surprised herself by falling in love with physics, and enjoyed spending her time with people who think of cows as spheres.
This was part of The Pulse episode "Mothering" http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/thepulse/item/103595-mothering

Physics: The Mother of Science

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