Yesterday, we learned that in the early days of the automobile industry steam and electric cars were quieter, cleaner, faster, and more popular than cars that ran primarily on gas. So why did the internal combustion engine win?
That depends on what you mean by car. If, like Wikipedia, you define a car simply as “a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which…
Last weekend, while the citizens of Caterpickles Central were driving around Massachusetts in yet another attempt to find good Mexican food, we passed through a little town called Walpole. The Four-Year-Old, thought that was a pretty weird thing to call a town. “Why do they call it Walpole?”
By The 4-Year-Old Dress in something flashy for camouflage. Red shirts are best. They will distract the Allosaurus into thinking you’re dead. Set dinosaur baits in…
Preschooler to father at dinner: “I need to eat a good dinner because I have to hibernate soon.”
Plastic pollution, comets, a stash of Roman hobnailed sandals and other news of the week.
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This week I discovered Amigurumi, the art of knitting and/or crocheting small stuffed animals. The Four-Year-Old is highly enthusiastic about this art, as it promises to pad her collection of toys very nicely.While putting the finishing touches on my first mouse, the residents of Caterpickles Central got into a heated debate on the subject of eyebrows. Specifically, whether mice had them.
What do you call a group of pterosaurs, anyway?
Preschooler, eying my Eeyore mug: “Everybody knows about Eeyore, Mommyo. You know, I’ve even seen Eeyore.” Mother: “You have? Where?” Preschooler, nonchalantly: “Oh, in my hunter’s…
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