Science Every Day
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Snow Days Outdoors, Of Course!
In New England, today’s another snow day for kids and parents, thanks to the third nor’easter in two weeks! Let your kids slump into a little TV fog or sleep in–it’s fine for a couple of hours. But you know they’ll get grumpy at some point and that means they need to get outdoors. In Continue reading
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A Shiver of Sharks
“It’s Shark Week!” The radio voice awakened me with this news, which I thought was an awesome way to start the day. Sharks thrill us with wonder, curiosity, and fear. Once you learn more about sharks, though, the fear usually turns to respect. That’s how I feel when I visit the beach in Venice, Florida. Prehistoric sharks’ Continue reading
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Outdoors With Paints
“Were you painting outside?” asked my husband. He knew the answer. And it wasn’t that one of our resident woodchucks had awakened and marched outside dragging paints and a brush. A rediscovered, unused set of acrylic paints had awakened me. I gathered a handful of brushed and dashed outside to my canvas: the snow. Flicks of red, Continue reading
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Columbus’s Mermaids
January doesn’t usually remind us about Christopher Columbus, but on January 9, 1493, he described seeing mermaids swim near the Dominican Republic. (See the History Channel’s “On this Day in History.”) However, Columbus was mistaken. What he saw were not mermaids swimming, but manatees. These animals are exceptionally lovely. Large and slow-moving mammals, manatees eat Continue reading
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