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Natural Curiosity

by Sheril Kirshenbaum

..gets many of us started in science.

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* Thanks to ‘Gregory‘ for sending the image.

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April 13th, 2009 8:39 AM Tags: calvin, children, hobbes
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7 Responses to “Natural Curiosity”

  1. 1.   pete Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    Awesome comic. C&H are many scientists favorite characters.

  2. 2.   Billingham Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Wait – what happened here? Hobbes left Calvin to live with Susie because only Calvin grew up?

  3. 3.   Ashutosh Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    In my case it was catching preying mantises and beetles in pickle jars and blowing up the bathroom window with nitrogen triiodide

  4. 4.   Sheril Kirshenbaum Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Billingham,
    There was more to the image text, now included. So that’s not Susie, though she *could* be her daughter…

  5. 5.   Stefan Jones Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    Yeah. That’s got to be Calvin’s kid. Maybe Calvin and Susie’s kid.

    Who drew that? It’s awesome.

  6. 6.   Brad Hallisey Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    This image is oddly heart-wrenching to me. Not at all an experience I expected. I suspect it is a combination of growing up with C&H, getting older and longing for those days of youthful exploration.

  7. 7.   MadScientist Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:33 am

    @Billingham: Unless I’m too senile, Susie was a brunette – so you can guess who the kid is.





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