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"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."
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When stereotypes collide.
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